单词minnow
n.: 米诺鱼（多种小型鱼类的总称）；无足轻重的（小）公司
网络: 鲦鱼；鲤科小鱼；小鱼型
米诺鱼（多种小型鱼类的总称）:
a very small freshwater fish
无足轻重的（小）公司；不起眼的（小型）运动队:
a company or sports team that is small or unimportant
【鱼类】鲦鱼;小鱼,杂鱼
复数：minnows
n.small frylittle manlittle guyspear carriernobody
By then he was fishing with reel and barbed artificial minnow, but he never worked up to trout fishing with flies.
那时，他已经使用线轴和装有倒钩的仿真米诺鱼来钓鱼，他从不用苍蝇钓鳟鱼。
At the edge of the woods there was a pond, and there a minnow and a tadpole swam among the weeds. They were inseparable friends.
森林边有个水塘，水塘里有一条小鲤鱼和一只小蝌蚪。他们是形影不离的好朋友。
Operationally, too, PetroChina is something of a minnow beside its peers.
在运营方面，中石油与其同行相比也只是小字辈。
Suddenly the Pursuer appeared again, looking like an enormous squid about to swallow a minnow .
突然追击者又出现了，看起来就像一只乌贼即将吞下一只小鱼。
In an industry dominated by a handful of global giants, each producing 3m-6m cars a year, Proton remains a minnow.
在一个由少数年产300~600万辆汽车的全球巨头占主导地位的产业领域内，宝腾依然是个“小不点”。
China has raced ahead of India in manufacturing but it remains a comparative minnow in terms of the IT outsourcing industry.
中国在制造业方面领先于印度，但在IT外包业方面，中国仍十分薄弱。
Even after several years of impressive economic expansion, India remains an industry minnow.
尽管经历了几年引人瞩目的经济扩张，印度的制造业仍没有强大起来。
With a market of 130m people and a combined GDP of more than $70 billion, the EAC is no minnow.
EAC整个市场有13亿人口，总GDP超过7百亿美元，一点也不小。
For all his bravado, the real-estate broker Ramesh Ajwani is no more than a minnow in a sea of sharks.
尽管拉梅什·阿贾瓦尼总是虚张声势，但这位房地产经纪人只不过是鲨鱼海洋里的一条小鱼。
Yet even the minnow parties may suddenly acquire influence if the coalition of Mr Allawi or Mr Maliki falls just shy of a majority.
然而，即使是微不足道的小党派，当阿拉维或马利基联盟只差这一点就能达到多数的时候，它们也会突然获得影响力。