Without question, newly minted tech millionaires amount to only a minuscule fraction of the American population.

毫无疑问，刚刚成为百万富翁的技术人员仅占美国人口的一小部分。

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In a broader sense, it may also refer to that minuscule fraction of time it takes your brain to realize that you've just made a GIGANTIC mistake and reconcile the fact that it is too late.

从更广义的角度来说，“糟糕一秒”可以指你的大脑意识到你刚刚犯了个非常严重而且无法挽回的错误时的那个瞬间。

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These so-called relativistic effects are all minuscule, however, unless the object accelerates to a significant fraction of c, which is about 300 million meters per second.

话说回来，这些所谓的相对论效应都很微小，除非物体的速度和c相比很显著，而c大概是每秒三亿公尺。

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As a result, field trials with these plants are 10 to 20 times as expensive as experiments with virtually identical plants modified with less precise, conventional techniques, so only a minuscule fraction of potentially important plants developed in university and corporate laboratories ever make it into field trials.

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