当然，这些都是早期的、不完整的现象，但是，明年经济二次探底的可能性——虽然一个月前看还比较小——已经增长到引发警觉的程度了。

Of course, these are early, incomplete, snapshots, but the chances of a double dip over the coming year, which seemed relatively small only a month ago, have risen alarmingly.

youdao

虽然火炬碳排放相对比较小，但是对于全球来讲这个消息是具有很大意义的。

"The carbon contribution of this initiative may have been relatively small, but the power of the message across the globe would have been highly significant."

youdao

首先，这里要连接的数据的数量比较小，所以使用 rope 不会提高性能（虽然能够提高健壮性和伸缩性）。

To begin with, the amount of data being concatenated is, presumably, small, so using a rope is unlikely to improve performance, although it could improve robustness and scalability.

youdao