'Belittle - to make small,unimportant.'

VOA: special.2010.08.08

become familiar with the people and you just make small conversation.

和那里的人混熟，然后聊聊天儿。

在英语系国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the real world, no one's going to measure it instantaneously, but we can make the difference as small as we like.

在现实生活中,没人能一瞬间测出来,但我们可以使差值越来越小

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Other companies such as Suzuki,Nissan, Toyota,and Honda have already announced plans to spend about $5 billion to make small cars in India or increase production at their existing plants over the next three years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

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

Turkey meat can also be cut into small pieces and added to vegetables and liquid to make soups and stews.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

You make not small changes in their chemistry but big changes in their chemistry.

它们的化学性质,就会发生巨大的改变

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This French artist uses small colorful squares of glass to make an image of a space creature.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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

The small lights make up the exact pattern of stars in the sky on the day the park opened in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

It's never perfect and we can't figure out yet a way to make it perfect and we still have small investors who are defrauded, who are treated badly.

事无完美,至今还没有完美的办法,仍然有许多小投资者,遭受欺诈,成为受害者

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Milton Levine did not want to make bobby pins, the small fasteners for women's hair.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

But, Alex, Alex, let me make a small case for democracy.

不过，亚历克斯，我举个民主的小案例。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If the stock continues to rise in price in the next few minutes, the day trader sells the shares quickly to make a small profit.

VOA: special.2010.10.10

And as a reminder, hopefully I don't need to remind any of you, but exam 1 is on Wednesday, so rather than our clicker question being on something from last class, which is exam 2 material, let's just make sure everyone remembers some small topic from exam 1 material, which is the idea of angular nodes.

而作为一个提醒--我希望大家都不需要提醒，但是这周三就要进行第一次考试了，因此我们的这个选择题,不是关于上节课内容的，那是第二次考试的内容，这里只是想确认大家都记得,第一次考试所要求的一些小问题，也就是关于角向节点的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I tried to make myself small in the tree, as the branches rubbed against me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Small animals make distress calls.

小动物发出求救信号。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The idea is to make a small profit many times during the day.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

It's a difficult problem that not everyone is smart -they vary in their ability -so we try to make a world in which it's pretty safe for the small investor who's not paying attention.

不是所有人都是聪明人,这是个难题,大家能力不同,所以我们试图营造一个环境,一个让小投资者感到安全的环境,而无需忧心忡忡

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But these small differences make each person an individual, different from others.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Because you would know being a good utilitarian that taking some, a small amount, he'd scarcely going to notice it, but it will make a huge improvement in the lives and in the welfare of those at the bottom.

因为作为一个优秀的功利主义者，你知道,收走一些对他们来说根本无关痛痒的钱，却能大大改善社会底层那些人的生活,增加他们的福利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She says small changes multiplied by millions can make a huge difference.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

It's really been a powerful tool in molecular biology because I might have a very small copy of a gene that I'm interested in and I can make enough copies that I can start to do something else with it.

这确实是分子生物学的一项利器,因为我可能只有,很少量的感兴趣的基因拷贝,而我可以马上制造出足够数量的复制品,能使我用作其他用途

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The huge old trees can make you feel very, very small.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Therefore, you will produce enough profit to make it possible, so that these small farms, you should imagine as typically having one or two slaves playing a part in this experience.

因此,需要创造足够的利润,才能使每个只有,一两个奴隶的小农场,能够在那段时间得以维系下去

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It was just a project to see how small we could make robots." Mr. Spletzer came to the museum with a gift box of mini-robots that include the Miniature Autonomous Robotic Vehicle or MARV.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

At some point, when your dollars were turning into dimes, you'd say, forget this, this is ridiculous, it doesn't make any sense for me to own these risky small-cap stocks.

当一块钱变成一毛钱,你会说,得了吧,这太荒谬,持有这些高风险的小盘股,对我而言没什么好处

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

President Obama said the government will make it easier for workers at small businesses to automatically enroll in retirement savings plans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

But in a small,short person, Skinner says,just 3 kilograms can make the difference between a healthy weight and obesity.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

For them,the hope is that the plantations provide enough jobs to make up for the small farms lost.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02