This could explain why Taiwan has a large number of small earthquakes, but rarely a major one.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

That way you could deliver a small number of vectors and they could amplify into a large number of vectors.

这样你只需向细胞中转入少量载体,就能得到大量的拷贝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

But visitors are welcome in small stores that are around the large open plaza areas.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Small-cap stocks are tougher to price than large-cap stocks, so there's a 4.7% differential, first to third quartile.

小盘股比大盘股更难定价,第一和第三个四分位数的差距有4.7%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the law excludes small farmers and processors from the same rules as large producers.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

If the land isn't taken up by large oligarchies life slaveholding class--then the small guy has a chance.

如果土地没有被大的垄断方占有,奴隶阶级,弱小的一方就仍会有希望

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.09.18

And so now when I have the list here, let's see, yours is facing this way, so small is gonna be here large is gonna be here.

现在有了这个序列，你们是面向这边的，那小的放这边，大的放这边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The career academies were developed to redesign large high schools into small learning communities.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

You know, my experience with this is, when you go from having a small number to a really large number of people, if you don't a process, it becomes real chaos.

我的经验是，公司的员工由很少,增长到很多，如果没有一个程序，很容易乱套。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

It can be a small or large opening that reaches up to the nose.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

One way to think about this intuitively if the derivative is very large the function is changing quickly, and therefore we want to take small steps.

关于这个方法很直观的一点想法是,如果导数非常大,函数也就变化的非常快，因此我们想一小步一小步的来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The islands also have a large collection of small birds called Darwin's finches.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

You make the volume infinitely large, the density of the gas infinitely small.

密度无限小，气体分子之间的相互作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

He struggled as a small businessman to compete with the large oil companies.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

On-crop trees produce a large number of small fruit with little value.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

What used to be a large french fry at McDonald's is now the small French fries and so a lot of people will order something, like they'll go to a restaurant and they'll say, well would you like small, medium or large?

现在小包的麦当劳薯条,过去曾是被叫做大包,所以当人们走进饭店,点餐的时候营业员问,你想要小包中包还是大包的薯条

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The forms make small rectangular soaps or large bricks of soap.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

So the DNA is going to get spread out on this gel according to size, with the small ones going farther and the large ones not going as far.

因此DNA会根据大小,在凝胶上分散开,小的片段会快一些,大的片段不那么快

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Weather does not discriminate between large and small farms.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Other people mix wishes small and large.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Besides the Fed's primary responsibility for setting U.S.monetary policy, it currently oversees about 6,000 large and small banks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Barbancourt is small compared to large rum manufacturers like Bacardi, but the award winning spirit has an international circle of loyal fans.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The FAO report points to the growth of large-scale, industrial operations that have pushed some small producers and pastoralists to the margins.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Sometimes, sciencecan seem overwhelming. There are complicated concepts, unimaginably large - or small - objects, and vast distances that most people have a hard time understanding.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The president says the bill will subject large and small banks to tougher oversight, and prevent banks from taking so much risk they could collapse and threaten the economy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Many large and small stores, restaurants,and other retail establishments are gone.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

They look like an extra-large version of the World War Two jeep, but enclosed, with small blast-proof windows, a protected machine gun position on top and a variety of high-tech gear inside and out.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02