单词marginal
adj.: 小的；微不足道的；不重要的；非主体的
n.: （议会或地方委员会的）边缘席位
网络: 边缘的；记在页边的；边际的
小的；微不足道的；不重要的:
small and not important
非主体的；边缘的:
not part of a main or important group or situation
写在页边空白处的:
written in the margin of a page
贫瘠的（因而盈利有限）:
that cannot produce enough good crops to make a profit
（议席或选区）边缘的（以微弱票数决定成败）:
won or lost by a very small number of votes and therefore very important or interesting as an indication of public opinion
（议会或地方委员会的）边缘席位:
a seat in a parliament, on a local council, etc. that was won by a very small number of votes
有决定意义的
图廊的
没有把握的
次要的,细微的
收入仅敷支出的
临界的
界限的
记在页边的
边际(的);犬牙交错的;接近崩溃的
边的,边缘的;记在栏外的,旁注的;限界的,边际的
复数：marginals
adj.+n.:
marginal utility,marginal seat,marginal change,marginal profit,marginal curve
adj.on the edgeborderingperipheralborderlinefringe
Any proposal for a negative income tax must have at least three elements-an income floor, a marginal tax rate, and a cutoff point.
负所得税的任何方案必须至少包括3个方面：最低收入，边际税率及中断点。
Extensive operating costs and marginal advertising revenue in the economic downturn have made it a challenge for YouTube to turn a profit.
在经济低迷的时期，巨额的运营成本以及微薄的广告收入使得YouTube盈利面临着巨大的挑战。
The Europeans have been trying to manage the sovereign debt crisis for over a year now with only marginal success.
过去的一年中，欧洲各国一直都在努力控制主权债务危机，但是收效甚微。
Mr Murdoch"s News Corp estimates that the marginal revenue from an occasional browser is less than one tenth of a penny a year.
默多克的新闻集团（NewsCorp）估计，一位偶尔浏览者每年带来的边际收入少于0.1便士。
The unit is often used on a marginal field that is surrounded by several marginal satellite fields or used for production testing.
这种平台常用于由几个边际卫星油气田所围绕的一个边际油气田，或用于生产测试。
A change in earnings of any factor can be found by analyzing the impact of the event on the value of the marginal product of that factor.
任何一种要素收入的变化，都可以通过分析某一事件对其边际产值的影响来发现。
But if, as Smith described, one man wrought the iron and another stretched it, who could say what was the marginal productivity of each?
但是，如果像斯密描述的那样，一个人负责对铁进行锻造，一个人负责对铁进行拉伸，谁能说出他们各自的边际生产率是多少呢？
Of interest here is a marginal number of buffer waits, and sequential scans, but a rather large number (at this point) of lock requests.
此处对缓存等待的边际数、以及顺序扫描的边际数感兴趣，而不是大量的锁请求。
Higher interest rates, the bank knows, would push thousands of marginal Chinese companies into at least technical bankruptcy.
央行知道，利率一高，至少会使数千堪能生存的中国公司走向技术性破产。
The location was marginal late at night but that was the only negative I had about this hotel.
旅馆的地理位置很偏但那也是我深夜到达时唯一可以抱怨的地方。