The first thing viewers usually say when they see me in the flesh is "You're smaller than you look on TV."

观众见到我本人时常说的第一句话往往是“你比在电视上看上去矮小一些”。

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So the tail risk is smaller than you think.

所以尾部风险比你想象的要小。

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The world is even smaller than you thought.

世界远比你想象的要小。

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The experts agree with the old saying that you should never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

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One of the main difference is is that when you're talking about multi-electron orbitals, they're actually smaller than the corresponding orbital for the hydrogen atom.

其中最主要的区别之一,是当你讨论多电子轨道时,它们实际上，要比对应的氢原子轨道,要小一些。

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And this is just a picture showing some of these sizes with their parent. So, for example, a lithium here, you can see how lithium plus is smaller than the actual lithium atom in its neutral state.

这是一张对比图,展示某些离子与它们的母体，比如，这里是锂，大家可以看到正一价锂离子是多么的小,与中性锂原子相比。

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