| 单词 | marginal |
| 释义 | marginal (once / 1556 pages) adj Use the word marginal when something is minimal or barely enough. If you buy lemons and sugar, make lemonade and set up a stand on the street corner, but sell only a couple of glasses, your profits will be marginal. Some claim that greenhouse gases have a marginal effect on the environment while others think that they are changing the world drastically. Your parents hope to see more than a marginal improvement in your grades! These are the figurative uses for marginal, which comes from the Latin word margo "edge." Literally, the word is used with things on a border. When you scribble words in the blank edges of your textbook pages, those notes are marginal. WORD FAMILYmarginal: marginalise, marginality, marginalize, marginally+/margin: marginal, margins/marginalise: marginalisation, marginalised/marginalize: marginalization, marginalized, marginalizes, marginalizing USAGE EXAMPLESYes, the FedEx Field surface is still of marginal professional quality late in almost any season. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) And because the improvement now looks marginal, there will need to be changes. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) “The alt-right’s appeal remains marginal because the huge majority of young Americans like multiculturalism,” he writes. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj at or constituting a border or edge the marginal strip of beach Syn fringy peripheral on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area 2adj just barely adequate or within a lower limit a marginal victory Syn bare narrow very limited in degree 3adj of questionable or minimal quality marginal writing ability Syn borderline minimal, minimum the least possible 4adj producing at a rate that barely covers production costs marginal industries Syn unprofitable producing little or no profit or gain |
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