"Language is very important to teach another younger generation of young men and women coming from elementary and high schools for job opportunities and understanding how small the world is and also the contributions the Arab world has given to civilization."

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

So, I just wanted to give you an idea of just how small most of these places are as well as indicating sharp departures.

我在这里只是想告诉你们这些城邦有多小,以及城邦之间有多分散

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, you know, take your hands and kind of do that and you can get a sense of how small that really might be.

你们可以用自己的手指比划下,感觉下三英寸有多小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

To write the book, Ruth Krauss asked very small children how they would define words like "face," "dog" and "party."

VOA: special.2009.10.05

And then we'll talk about how you can build something to replace a complicated small part in the body like that.

然后我们再讨论工程师们如何构建,能够取代体内如此精细小巧器官的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In "People Like Me" he sings about how he and his cousin accidentally exploded a small bomb they found at school.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

And actually, a question that might come up, I just explained, the sodium channel, you might say, well, how do potassium channels work then, because I can understand how you can filter something big out, but how do you filter out something small.

实际上，可能大家会问一个问题，我刚解释过，钠离子通道，你可以说，好吧，那么钾离子通道该如何起作用呢，因为我可以理解你是如何把大东西过滤掉的，但是你如何把小东西过滤掉呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Then,he remembered when as a small boy how he watched the wolves kill a moose.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

And now in the past couple of weeks, I've been working on a small experiment, which is intended to show how we can be replaced by a computer.

在前几周内，我一直在做一个,小实验，打算,说明我们怎么样才能被计算机代替。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library into a meeting place and tourist attraction, inspire a classic American town, bring together an entire region and eventually become famous around the world?

VOA: special.2009.02.23

I just want to make a few small points that indicate how that works.

我在此举个小例子来作一个具体说明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Main message? Each one of us makes a difference every single day we impact the world around us and if we would just think about the consequences of the little choices we make what we eat,wear,buy, how we interact with people,animals, the environment then we start making small changes and that can lead to the huge change that we must have."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

So, what I want to do is start off small, with the smallest interesting part of the brain and then get bigger and bigger and bigger talk about how the small part of the brain, the neurons, the basic building blocks of thought, combine to other mental structures and into different subparts of the brain and finally to the whole thing.

我将从细微入手,从大脑最细微的部分开始,然后逐步扩大,来谈谈大脑的基本单元,也就是神经元,也是思考的基本构造,是如何组成其他心理结构的,又是如何形成不同脑组织的,最终构建出了整个的大脑

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But there is one small difference between the inn now and how it appears in Rockwell's original painting.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So small silly little exercise but I'm hoping that you've sort of seen how by being patient.

这就是我们关于小Silly方法,做的一点联系了，我还是希望大家,能够耐心点来发现问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She was given a pedometer - which measured how far she walked - and she started walking each day with a small group of her colleagues.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

That's how tight the junctions are, not even a small molecule like glucose can pass between them.

可见胞间连接多么紧密,甚至像葡萄糖这样小的分子也不能通过

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

His other son, Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island,fondly remembered how even when he was small, his father included him in his beloved sailboat races off of Cape Cod.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

If the immune system recognizes only small pieces of the virus and mounts an immune response to that, how about if I just take these pieces of a virus like some structural subunit, some piece of protein and use that as a vaccine?

如果免疫系统识别出病毒的一小段,就可以诱发起免疫应答,那么如果我仅用一小部分病毒,比如一些结构性亚基 一些蛋白质的片段,来作为疫苗的话,会如何呢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Even small changes in what we eat and how we prepare our food can be very useful, says physician David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life".

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Well, the figure I saw last was a number too small to be mentioned; I mean, to say you just can't really say how much it is, but all right, two percent.

这个数字简直,小的可忽略了,我的意思是说你实在说不出精确地数字,但实际上只有2%左右

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But no matter how the team performs, another American soccer story will be written in South Africa, where a small group of Americans will represent other countries on soccer's biggest stage.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

"So I urged these institutions here today to go back and take a third and fourth look about how they are operating when it comes to small business and medium sized business lending,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20