adv. 些微地, 苗条地
It’s about “repeating the process, but each time doing something slightly different to improve the result”.
四级 · CET-4 2025年12月 第2套
A phantom jam begins when a car in dense traffic slows down even slightly, which causes the car behind that vehicle to slow even more — and the slowing action spreads backward through the lane of traffic like a wave, getting worse the farther it spreads, Eventually, the cars far behind are forced to stop completely or risk hitting the slower vehicles ahead — and so the traffic grinds to a halt over nothing, Horn said.
四级 · CET-4 2025年6月 第3套
For every three nature-related words in hit songs of the 1950s, researchers found, there was only slightly more than one 50 years later.
四级 · CET-4 2024年12月 第1套
J) Even if bottled water sales are growing slightly more slowly, the industry is racing to adapt to changing concerns and tastes.
四级 · CET-4 2024年12月 第2套
But by 1970, the number of hours Americans worked on average had fallen to slightly less than 39.
四级 · CET-4 2024年6月 第1套