Each person or small group had to build their own boat.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

You can either have a big number and a small decimal point or small number and a big decimal point.

可以小数点前面长，后面短,或者，前面短，后面长。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Something that also stimulates your brain. So you just don't focus on small things or small challenges.

一些会激发你的大脑的东西。所以你就不会关注小事情或小挑战了。

学外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Lots and lots of companies from overseas, especially from China, selling very cheap products, that users can have in order to recharge their cell phones or small devices, that run on solar energy or wind energy."

VOA: special.2011.01.10

I will then judge and then the winner will win some small prize, either of a literary or a food nature.

我来评谁胜出,胜出者有一个小奖品，可能是书，也可能是吃的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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 universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.

万国之城将永不会允许,或说不会允许一种自我完善,那只有在小型，自治的城邦中才行得通。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Kumtan drives a tuk-tuk, or small three-wheeled taxi, on Khao San.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

A traditional recipe actually is based on a small set of primitives, and a good chef with, or good cook, I should say, with that set of primitives, can create an unbounded number of great dishes.

一个传统的菜谱实际上是,建立在一小堆的原材料，和一个好厨师，或者好厨子之上的，我要说，根据那堆原材料，可以创造出无数的美味佳肴来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"There are opportunities for small farmers in Africa in this market for some tropical products that cannot be grown in North America or Europe, for example products like organic cocoa or organic sugar,organic fruits and vegetables."

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

We have either single atoms or molecules consisting of small numbers of atoms.

单原子或者分子,由很多很小的原子组成。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"And what I don't want to hear is when they're spending that kind of money on their shareholders and spending that kind of money on TV advertising that they're nickel-and-diming fishermen or small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

All change begins in the mind of single person or a small group."

所有改变从一个人或一小众人的思想开始“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

One drink equals a bottle or can of beer, a medium glass of wine or a very small glass of liquor.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Then we read, or at least we think we read, that Satan's spear is small, and then we realize over the course of this reading process that Satan's spear is unimaginable, and we realize that our time-bound mode of knowing is ultimately inadequate to understand anything about the inscrutable truths of eternity: this is according to Fish.

然后又读到，至少我们认为读到，撒旦的长矛又很小，接着我们意识到了在阅读的过程中,撒旦的长矛实际上是不可想象的，并且我们被特定时代拘束的理解模式,是不足以理解任何,有关永恒的难以预测的真相的：,这是费什告诉我们的道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Or you can steam them in a small amount of water or stir fry them in a small amount of oil.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Or Roosevelt, after World War Two, talking about our humility as a nation in the face of the sacrifice of our soldiers, or Lincoln, or Washington, These are people who understood that they were small parts of something much larger.

第二次世界大战之后，罗斯福总统，也讲过一个国家的谦逊,面对战士的牺牲，无论是林肯还是华盛顿，这些人都很请楚,他们都只是很渺小的一部分。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But critics say banks are profiting mainly from trading activities, not from making loans to small businesses or homeowners.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

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 dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

When melting snow-crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice, called sleet.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

So if n is greater than or equal to 1 and n is less than or equal to 3, let's just judge this thing a small number arbitrarily.

所以n大于等于1，并且n小于等于,我们武断的判定它为,一个小的数字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

University of Arizona extension experts say covering plants and small trees with cloth or paper can help prevent frost damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

taxi or by foot. You know, it's a small city, so you can...

出租车或者是步行。旧金山是个小城，所以你可以……

旧金山的公共交通 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When melting snow crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice,called sleet.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

And that's all that's big enough to pass through or small enough to pass through. And if we go up even just one row on the periodic table to potassium, what we actually see is now that it's going to be too large, and, in fact, a potassium solvated with one water molecule won't go through our channel.

就是这样刚好大到它通过,或者说刚好小到它通过,即使我们再沿着周期表往下走仅仅一行到钾离子，我们看到的就将是它的个头太大了，实际上，溶解于一个水分子的单个钾离子,不能穿过我们的通道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The shoe is small -- a European size thirty-seven, or a women's size seven in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Steroids are small molecules - much smaller than proteins - smaller molecules that tend to be hydrophobic or lipid soluble.

类固醇是小分子物质,比蛋白质小得多,这类小分子是非水溶性的,或者说是脂溶性的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They ended up moving to a small town and no longer engaged in subsistence agriculture, if his parents had, or his grandparents.

最后他们移居到一个小镇上,不再把持小农经营,不像他爸妈,或者祖父一辈

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选