He advocates small scale agriculture, neighbors generating power for neighbors and communities empowered by the Internet.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

So, we need a new kind of mechanics, which is quantum mechanics, which will accurately explain the behavior of molecules on this small scale.

所以我们需要一种新的力学，也就是量子力学,来解释在这个,小尺度下分子的行为。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I don't think I want to be in politics, probably more at a small scale level.

我想我不会参政，我喜欢小范围内的活动。

为了更美好的世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said that a small-scale counterterrorism effort is not a viable alternative to the broader military operation now underway.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Right, the first skill we want you to acquire, is we want you to be able to use the basic tools of computational thinking to write small scale programs.

好，我想让你们掌握的第一个技能就是，希望你们能使用,计算思维的基本工具,来编写小规模的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Edoumou says the rains may worsen food insecurity in West Africa, especially in Sahelian countries where small-scale farmers have few reserves.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

but probably more at a small scale.

但是在比较小规模上。

为了更美好的世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

So, it's Newtonian mechanics, and the reason for this is because Newtonian mechanics does not work on this very, very small size scale.

牛顿力学，因为牛顿力学,在这种很小的尺度下不适用,我们说过，牛顿力学。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In Africa,the foundation works with the non-profit organization KickStart, which develops inexpensive technology for small-scale farmers, and sets up local profit-making distribution systems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Being a very small part of that, and part of changing our scale from where we constantly see ourselves as the most important thing in the universe, to suddenly being just a tiny piece.

我们只是宇宙的渺小的一员，我们应当改变我们的观念,不应将自己看做是,宇宙中最重要的，我们只是微小的尘埃。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Clinton says Washington is opening new business development centers and is working on a virtual entrepreneur network to link small-scale enterprises on line.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

So, then we'll get to turn to a new kind of mechanics or quantum mechanics, which will in fact be able to describe what's happening on this very, very small size scale -- so on the atomic size scale on the order of nanometers or angstroms, very small particles.

然后我们要讲到一种,新的力学--量子力学,它可以解释,发生在很小尺度,大约是原子尺寸大小,也就是纳米或埃的量级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A total of 30 small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from 26 tons to more than 115 tons after gaining their organic certification.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

They are small-scale workers, digging in surface pits which have already been mined.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"Organic agriculture in general is well suited to small-scale farmers because usually small-scale farmers do not have much cash to purchase external inputs, chemical inputs,pesticides, or chemical fertilizers."

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

The FAO report says developing countries will need to strengthen disease control regulations, as well as improve environmental controls and minimize the dislocation of small farmers as the livestock industry continuesto grow and concentrate into large-scale enterprises.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

"We give them a huge market here, and on top of that if cars can be exported, there are great economies of scale, achieved in Thailand for example something that could not be where the domestic market is really small."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"And because small retailers don't have economies of scale to be able to order a lot of merchandise at once, they are not able to negotiate the best prices or offer the best deals to their shoppers."

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

That is in addition to billions of dollars of aid to the Middle East and North Africa, including a $700-million Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to Morocco for fruit tree farming and small-scale fisheries as well as stronger financial services and enterprise support.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03