He began loaning small amounts of money to people in poor areas of Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

The minerals are present in small amounts in food and as a function of body weight as well.

矿物质,在食物中所占比例非常小,在体重中所占比例也非常小

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The ones that get talked about the most in terms of health, the one is sodium of course, because salt intake but the others are important for health as well and in some cases they're being consumed in large amounts and some in small amounts.

提到最多的和健康相关的矿物质,当然就是钠了,因为人每天都吃盐,但其它元素对健康也同样重要,某些情况下,矿物质的消耗量会很大,而在另一些情况下则很小

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One reason is that heavy amounts of snow fall in surprisingly small areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

And carbon 14, 6 again and it has 8, and it is found in vanishingly small amounts, 10 10 to the minus 12 or part per trillion.

碳14，6个质子，8个中子，它的存在是非常微小的，几乎趋于零，万亿分之。

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In nearly all the major relationship livestock-producing countries in the world, farmers add small amounts of antibiotics to the animals' feed.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

They appear in food in pretty small amounts which is why they're the micronutrients;, but they're vital for health, so if you're deficient in micronutrients you've got big problems.

它们在食物中所占比重很小,这也是称它们为"微量元素"的原因,但它们对健康的意义却是至关重要的,如果缺乏微量元素的话会很糟糕

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