If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

So, even if the cost is small, $10 a dose, it quickly amounts to a large amount of money.

因此,即使单只成本很小,可能只有十美元,但是这很快就会累积成为很大的金额

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I don't know if you've been to Bath. But it's very nice, but a bit boring and small.

我不知道你去过巴斯没有。那里非常漂亮，只是有一点无聊，而且那里很小。

刚来伦敦的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Too many of his small force would be lost if he tried to fire these guns.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

If you want to have an infinitestimally small change, you end up writing dh is dq sub p.

这是对于有限的变化而言的,如果是一个无限小的变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It is very early in the morning. If you look carefully at the painting, you can see two small points of the color orange.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

They ended up moving to a small town and no longer engaged in subsistence agriculture, if his parents had, or his grandparents.

最后他们移居到一个小镇上,不再把持小农经营,不像他爸妈,或者祖父一辈

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If you move closer to the sculptures, you realize they are made up of thousands of carefully stacked small plastic bottles for storing medicines.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

You know, my experience with this is, when you go from having a small number to a really large number of people, if you don't a process, it becomes real chaos.

我的经验是，公司的员工由很少,增长到很多，如果没有一个程序，很容易乱套。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

He looked as if he were carefully studying a small object in his hands.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

If you go into what now is Serbia, there basically was Belgrade, which was a small place.

如果你到了现在的塞尔维亚,那里基本上就是以前的贝尔格莱德,这是一个很小的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If repaired,these beautiful buildings could offer this small town an important source of income.

VOA: special.2010.11.03

One way to think about this intuitively if the derivative is very large the function is changing quickly, and therefore we want to take small steps.

关于这个方法很直观的一点想法是,如果导数非常大,函数也就变化的非常快，因此我们想一小步一小步的来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In other words,if one number is big, the other number will be small.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

I mean if you went looking for them you would have trouble finding one that small.

如果你去找冰球大小的百吉饼,这实在很困难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Giovanni felt as if he were talking to a very small child.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Well if you've created fragments here and they're fragments of different size, the small ones are going to move faster than the big ones.

如果你制造了一些长短不同的片段,那小片段会比大片段移动得快一些

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If dark matter particles exist, scientists say, they should be able to observe a small amount of light given off when they hit the nucleus of a xenon atom.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

If you put a dollar into small stocks in June of 1932, by the end of 2006, you would have had 159,000 times your money.

如果你在1932年6月买一美元小盘股,那么到2006年底,你的收益将会有159000倍之多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We have taken extraordinary steps to guarantee bank deposits, support small and medium enterprises and provide additional capital to the banking sector if required,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Now if that's what they mean,then--a small observation-- they didn't express themselves very clearly.

如果这就是他们的意思，小小观察一下-,他们并没有把自己表达地很清楚。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

These can be sulfate,nitrate, ammonia,sodium chloride and if these are small particles they can be dangerous because if they are inhaled they can reach the lungs."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Another thing that you need to understand about these farms, if you're going to grasp their significance for the society that will come, is that they are small, really small.

关于这些农场,另一点要搞清楚的是,如果你要理解它们,所带来的社会意义,那是很细微和缓慢的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is also the issue of coalition rule. Even if a party wins a small percent of the vote, it may be enough to make them a player in a power sharing deal.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

And that's all that's big enough to pass through or small enough to pass through. And if we go up even just one row on the periodic table to potassium, what we actually see is now that it's going to be too large, and, in fact, a potassium solvated with one water molecule won't go through our channel.

就是这样刚好大到它通过,或者说刚好小到它通过,即使我们再沿着周期表往下走仅仅一行到钾离子，我们看到的就将是它的个头太大了，实际上，溶解于一个水分子的单个钾离子,不能穿过我们的通道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Most of the fish,shrimp, blue crab they are spawning out in the Gulf right now, and any of those really small larvae fish and crab, is probably going to be killed if they encounter the actual oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

Or, if you're a pediatrician with a really small patient who will not sit still, it's because the laws of quantum mechanics don't allow an object to have a definite position and momentum.

或者你是个儿科医生,而你的小病人却总也坐不住,这是因为量子力学,不允许物体同时具有确定的位置和动量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Once again, Frank Miller. "If the presidents of both countries are issuing instructions to their negotiators not to let small things get in the way, and if the presidents keep watching over what their negotiators do, the answer is clearly 'yes',".

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

He said, "I'll pray for him but if he can punch it'll help." In a small respect, that's Machiavelli.

神父说，我将为他祈祷，但是如果他能出拳猛击,那将会很有帮助，小面上说，这就是马基雅维利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If we have a small engine, and we have to pull the car up a steep hill,a difficult hill, the engine is more likely to collapse,to blow up.

如果我们用的引擎很小，想把车开上一个陡峭崎岖的山坡，引擎很容易损毁，爆炸。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选