The law forced every worker and business owner to pay a small amount of money each month to the federal government.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

And I have actually seen evidence over the years, mercifully, just a small amount of evidence, but there are, in a group like this, always a few students who come in with a really strong background in high school.

这几年我已经见到了实例，令人感激的是，只有小部分人，但在这，像这样的一个小组，总有一些来到我们这的学生,在高中打下了良好的基础。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And then I've started taking lessons at a small academy just a couple of streets away from my house.

然后我开始在离我家几条街的一家小型学院上课。

I've been 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It gets worse over time. The disease affects a small area of cells in the middle of the brain.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.

这个比喻并不是在提醒我们撒旦的长矛像棍子一样小,因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mix eight grams of alum with seven grams of cream of tartar in a small amount of hot water.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Much easier to keep a flask of cells under very sterile, very reproducible conditions than it is to keep a small animal, right?

保存一小瓶细胞,该细胞可在无菌条件下再生,这要比保存小动物容易的多

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

The Hebrew word that designates the creature created by God is ; the word adam. It's actually not a proper name, small a; it is adam, it's a generic term.

希伯来语中命名上帝所造之物的词语正是,“亚当“它其实并不是一个准确的名字;,他是上帝所创之物，是类属的名称。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A newly reported British study suggests that taking another drug with a small amount of aspirin may help solve the problem.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

It was a small argument you had.

你们不过是小小地争执了一下。

If I were 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Your papers will be graded by a small army of TAs.

给你们论文评分是一小队助教。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And only a small amount of fluoridated toothpaste, the size of a green pea, should be used.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Because you would know being a good utilitarian that taking some, a small amount, he'd scarcely going to notice it, but it will make a huge improvement in the lives and in the welfare of those at the bottom.

因为作为一个优秀的功利主义者，你知道,收走一些对他们来说根本无关痛痒的钱，却能大大改善社会底层那些人的生活,增加他们的福利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Cabbage leaves can be steamed or cooked in a small amount of boiling water until they soften.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

You don't want to just ignore it, but in cases like that, it's usually a small fraction of the total.

你不能直接把它忽略掉,但在像这样的情形下，它一般是。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

a small amount of fertilizer and dolomite, a powder-like substance made from limestone.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

So they didn't want one king to arise, and they didn't want a small coterie of leaders to arise.

所以他们不能让一个国王崛起，不能让一个小团体壮大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

You can either have a big number and a small decimal point or small number and a big decimal point.

可以小数点前面长，后面短,或者，前面短，后面长。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It was of a small area of a group of stars.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

" "I'll have a small coffee please " and a double espresso mocha skinny frothed" except the barista makes a mistake.

我要一小杯咖啡,“还要一杯双倍浓度无咖啡因少泡沫的穆哈咖啡“,除非店员弄错了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

So, similarly in a case where instead we have a small energy difference, we're going to have a low frequency, which means that we're going to have a long wavelength here.

在这个例子里,能量差较小,我们得到的频率低,这意味这它的波长更长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of a small plane while on a singing tour in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Again, same kind of reasoning says, given some value x, I happened to pick a small one here, what's an easy way to do this? Well, let's just start at one. That's my variable I'm going to change and check.

好，尤其是，让我们到这里来,让我给大家看看第二个例子,让我把这个注释掉，这是我要解决的，第二个问题，假设我想找到一些整数的,所有除数，我想要找出来这个数的所有的除数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

About the size of a small dog, echidnas look like a mixture of a porcupine, an anteater,a pig and a mole.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

So from this small, not such a small college you went on to... What was your next destination?

所以说，从这个小学校，也不是太小的学校,你毕业了然后去了。,你接下来做什么了呢？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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