You wouldn't deny an old man that small favour.

对一个老人，这么一点小小的恩惠，你总不会拒绝吧。

The small village hugs the highway.

那个小村庄紧挨着一条公路。

I'll cut some small pieces tomorrow.

明天我会劈些小块的。

But, alas! Either the locks were too large, or the key was too small.

可是天哪，不是锁太大，就是钥匙太小。

I come from a small family.

我家人口少。

It is small blame to sb. that !

（发生了）…也不能多怪某人。

"Are they all as small as that" he asked hoarsely.

“他们都象那个那么小吗？”他哑着嗓子问。

How small it is!

眇乎小哉！

There isn't a lot of call for small specialist shops nowadays.

如今对小型专卖店已没有多大需求了。

He fell there on his hands and knees to check himself, for that rock was small and he might have pitched over on the far side.

他落地的时候向前一扑，用双手双膝撑住了身体，要不，岩石那么小，他可能冲过头。

His small eyes gleamed with a green light, his whole face had a look as if he gnawed himself.

他的小眼睛闪着绿光，整个脸庞看上去就象自己在折磨着自己。

He closed his eyes and could see once more the small dark forms he saw last summer.

他闭上眼睛还是又一次看到了他去年夏天所看到的小黑影。

A small man of about thirty, with green eyes and a tangle of fair hair, stood looking down at me.

我面前站着一个三十岁上下的矮小的汉子，碧绿的眼睛，一头乱七八糟的淡黄头发，他正低头望着我。

He was thinking of a time when he had been caught in a small town in Nebraska.

他想起自己当初曾流落在内布拉斯加的一个小镇上。

First he told me he would put in for me to raffle, and did so, some small matter coming to his lot, he presented it to me.

开头他告诉我他要替我买一张彩票，他果然买了，得到一件小玩意儿，就送给了我。

The desirable features of that project were merely that it would have initiated a small "second front" .

理想计划的特点是立刻开辟一小型的“第二战场”。

Another is the hearing aid, which can be made so small that it can become part of the frame of a pair of spectacles.

另一个例子是助听器，它可以做得非常小，小得可以成为眼镜架的一部分。

His hands were white and small, his frame was fragile, his voice was quiet and his manners were refined.

他长得单薄，一双手白皙而小巧，说起话来细声细气，一副文质彬彬的模样。

He swore by the name of God that he couldn't want to let such a small matter come between me and my sleep.

他以上帝的名义发誓，他不想让这样的小事妨碍我睡觉。

From a technological point of view, the small size of the electronic circuits is not the only.

从工艺观点来看，电子电路的小型化并不是上述技术唯一的。

The heat exchange with the reservoir is good and the temperature difference is only small between the bottom and top of the reservoir.

热储内部的热交换良好，热储顶部和底部的温度差极小。

The little man beside him was bald and rosy-cheeked, with small black eyes and a sensual mouth.

站在他身旁的矮个子是秃顶，两颊红润，一对小而黑的眼睛，一张肉感的嘴。

A couple of days ago, the policemen yanked the man in on a small charge and began to find out about the jewel robbery.

几天前，警察以轻微罪行逮捕了那个男人并着手就珠宝抢劫案进行调查。

The governor continued to smile, but his eyes grew small and serious.

总督仍然微笑着，但是他的眼睛眯了起来，变得严肃了。

In a small hotel or motel, all of these different functions may be handled by one or two people.

在规模不大的旅馆或汽车旅馆，这些工作可能统统由一两个人来做。

The tallest buildings in London are small in comparison with New York's skyscrapers.

伦敦最高的建筑物与纽约的摩天大厦一比就相形见绌。

In a way, it was like a school with small classes where students received personal attention they could not have gained elsewhere.

从某种意义上说，它有点象一所分小班上课的学校，学生可以在这儿接受在别处无法得到的个别辅导。

The product had no significant side effects, he continued, and was so safe it would be given to small children.

他接着说，这种药没有什么明显的副作用，非常安全，甚至可以让小孩服用。

A column of smoke is established with a small rocket then photographed to determine movement of the trail.

烟柱是由一个小火箭放出的，然后摄影技求出烟迹的运动。

She received him in a little parlor: a small unspeckled bower, ornamented with a desultory foliage of tissue paper.

她在一间小小的客厅里接待他。小小的房间一尘不染，室内装饰着用皱纸做成的飘逸的枝叶。

Basically a scientist, he still kept his hand in with a small laboratory, and attended scientific meetings several times each year.

他原本是个科学家，目前仍常参与一个小实验室的工作，一年当中要参加好几次科学会议。

The investigation of its infinitely small components had to await the development of optical methods and is of relatively recent origin.

要研究其无数小的结构成分，必须有待于光学方法的发展，因而其起始较晚。

It reduced Indochina to its proper scale-a small peninsula on a major continent.

它把印度支那还原到它应有的尺度--一个大陆上的不大的半岛。

Normally small diameter sections produced by unredrawing have inferior properties with an apparently reduced extension at failure.

在正常情况下，拉丝做成的小直径断面具有破坏时伸长显著减少的不良性质。

The difficulty lies primarily in the fact that the fiber core is relatively small.

困难主要在于纤维芯比较小。

The much greater frequency of imitation with insects than with other animals, is probably the consequence of their small size.

昆虫拟态例子之所以远较其它动物为多，其原因大概在于体型小。

A possible explanation may be that in some particle size determinations the small particles were lost.

一种可能的解释是：在有些粒度测定中把小的粒子漏掉了。

Heat exchangers within fluidized beds require relatively small surface areas.

流化床中换热器所需面积较小。

The infinitely small "dx" and "dy" were sometimes described as vanishing or incipient quantities.

有时候把无穷小量dx和dy描述成正在消失的或者刚出现的量。

Small towns in South India serve as economic and cultural centres for the surrounding villages.

印度南部的小城镇是周围村庄的经济文化中心。

Small traders cannot compete in the face of cheap foreign imports.

面对廉价的外国进口商品，经营规模小的商人无法与之抗衡。

The investigation of its infinitely small components had to await the development of optical methods and is of relatively recent origin.

要研究其无数小的结构成分，必须有待于光学方法的发展，因而其起始较晚。

The government improved its financial support and eased market access for the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

政府通过加强金融支持和放宽市场准入，促进中小型企业的发展。

Not necessarily. Big is not always ugly just as small is not always beautiful.

没有必要，因为大的不一定丑，正如小的不一定都美。

small blue tulips started a bit of inferiority complex!

小蓝郁金香开始有点自卑了！

Small, stylish, easy-to-use, and not that expensive, you couldn't really ask for anything more in a music player.

因为它小巧、时髦、易用，而且不贵，对于一个音乐播放器，你还能要求什么呢？

She said, "Little by little, my ridiculously small universe becomes huge. "

她说：“一点一滴的，我的有趣的小宇宙慢慢膨胀起来。”

Once I found a small stick standing upright in one of my traps.

又一次，我发现一根小树枝直直插在捕兽夹里。

During our trip we had come across small amounts of cotton grass along the roads, but I never expected to see such a huge field of it.

可是在旅途中，我们所遇到的棉草量却是很少的，但我没想到会看到这样一块庞大的田地。

At the end of each round of questioning, they were given small payments for coming close to the actual answer (signified by the gray bar).

每一轮问题过后，接近真实答案的就可以得到小额的奖励（以灰色条注明）。

He said EK studied carriers from small countries with robust economies, like Swissair and Singapore Airlines, when it was established.

他表示，阿联酋航空在建立之初就向那些经济发达小国的航空公司学习，如瑞士航空、新加坡航空。

But in looking at the research that we did, we expect [paywall jumpers] to be a very significant minority, a small, small number of people.

但是通过我们已经做过的调查来看，避开付费的只会是极少数人。

As Earth's climate continues to warm, life might become the province of the small, a new study suggests.

伴随地球气候持续变暖，一项最新的研究表明，生命或许会成为小体型动物的专属。

The analysis found the two forms of talk therapy to be equally effective, although the number of studies analyzed was small.

虽然用于研究的样本数量不大，但从分析中可发现，两种谈话治疗疗法的效果相差无几。

Placing participants in small groups , it is able to turn them loose on companies and organisations and closely monitor the results .

通过把学员分成小组，就可以让他们减少对企业或组织的关注，而密切注意结果。

But thousands of startups and small businesses are trying to crack the markets developing at home and abroad.

成千上万的创业公司和小企业正在努力破解国内国外市场。

Over a couple of decades he synthesised hundreds of chemicals, all of which he tried first on himself and a small group of volunteers.

历二十余载，彼君合成之化合物达数百种之多，皆为其本人及其一志愿者小组所首先亲尝。

A small Northwest Regional Development Agency grant was used to take the technology to the point of proof of concept.

一个小的西北地区开发代理将对这一想法进行实验验证提供资金支持。