It is still happening today. Small birds and animals still become trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

So, even if the cost is small, $10 a dose, it quickly amounts to a large amount of money.

因此,即使单只成本很小,可能只有十美元,但是这很快就会累积成为很大的金额

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's very small and, it has an intimate feel. And the collection is incredible.

博物馆很小，让人觉得很亲切。藏品也棒极了。

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The road is narrow and the traffic is often slow as it travels through each of the small towns of the Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Now, despite the fact that this is a very small piece of land, it boasts great geographical diversity.

尽管它只是狭小的一片土地，它因丰富多样的地理而自豪。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is about a young woman named Sookie Stackhouse who lives in the small town of Bon Temps,Louisiana.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

A test suite is small enough so that we can test it in a reasonable amount of time.

测试集必须小到我们可以在一个,合理的时间内完成他，但是必须大到。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

First is that, during the '90s, I think the Chinese IT market was very, very small.

第一，在九十年代，中国的互联网市场规模很小。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

It is so crowded that we are packed like sardines - just like small fish in a can.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

So part of it is trying to give yourself some time And I think the other piece is that it can often be very small thing.

所以说，你要给自己一些时间,另外，就是激发你发现灵性的,可能都是些很小的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is very early in the morning. If you look carefully at the painting, you can see two small points of the color orange.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

A Real Estate Investment Trust is for small investors, although wealthy, big investors can invest in it also.

小投资者可以投资房地产投资信托基金,富人和大投资者也可以投资

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is her picture. I went to a little black shelf that held a small picture of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It is filled with thousands of fish, large and small, from all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

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

It is filled with hundreds of small red cubes for playing games of chance.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

This is in a pretty small it's bigger than Belgium, but this is a pretty small territory.

这是仍然是一个相当小的数字,只比比利时稍大一点,不过比利时的领土也是很小的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Hit is a small word but it has a lot of power.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Well, one thing that a literary argument can do is take something small like this and try to give an account for it, so that's what I'm going to do.

好了，文学争论能对向这样小细节,进行描写说明，所以，我现在要做的是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

And if we go ahead and square that, then what we get is a probability density, and specifically it's the probability of finding an electron in a certain small defined volume away from the nucleus.

我们得到的是，一个概率密度，它是，在核子周围，某个很小的,特定区域,找到电子的概率,所以它是概率密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

It's an amazing question why they have it but this is a very small minority.

你提出的这个非常棒,但实际上只有极少数孤独症患者会这样

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

More broadly, many critics are asking why the debate is taking place at all, since it affects such a small number of women.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

.. For example, I would have... But this is just political kabuki, it's meaningless Yeah, and the magnitude is going to be small, ... the impact on the economy, ...to get these checks until what, July?

比如说，我原本可以。,但这只是一次政治秀，毫无意义,没错，它的影响力或许微乎其微，也就是对经济的产生的作用，。。。搞不好要到7月份才能拿到支票？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"But to spur lending to small businesses, it is essential that we make more credit available to the smaller banks and community financial institutions that these businesses depend on,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

It looks a little something like that, and the screen doesn't quite do it justice here, Z but there's two alphabets; A through Z, and then A through Z, -- but the inner A through Z is on a small -- it has a smaller diameter; so it's a ring of letters.

它看起就像那样的东西，那个画面做的不是这么公正，这里有两个字母表，A到Z，然后A到，但是戒指内部的A到Z是在一个小直径的上面-,它有一个小的直径，所以它是一个有字母的戒指。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's a small place. And the food is really, really good.

那是个小地方，菜肴特别美味。

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