"But they are actually very small when you look at the numbers that were spent bailing out the banks during this economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

I work part-time. When the girls were small, I worked from home.

我是做兼职工作。当女儿还小的时候，我在家里工作。

妈妈亲手做的味道 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

I know this is so, because when I put my small finger in front of the moon, my fingernail covers it."

VOA: special.2009.03.28

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

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

But when you go to restaurants or people buy steaks you just don't see anything that small, and so the serving sizes are multiples of what might be typical.

但当人们去餐馆或者买牛排的时候,不会看见这么小的肉,所以我们生活中的份量是正常大小的几倍

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He says when it comes to saving energy and money, big changes start with small steps like turning out the lights.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

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

Anne Morrow was a quiet, shy and small young woman when she met Charles Lindbergh in nineteen twenty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The second question I want to ask is what's the base case? When do I get down to a problem that's small enough that it's basically trivial to solve? Here it was lists of size one. I could have stopped at lists of size two right. That's an easy comparison.

第二个问题是什么是基础条件？,我要将问题分解到何时才使得问题,小到可以解决的基本问题？,这里是当列表的长度为1有时候,我也可以在长度为2的时候停止分解,那是一个非常简单的对比。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One of the museum's displays tells the story about when the president had a mild case of the infectious disease small pox.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

He had extremely small hands, very small feet, which meant he sort of lurched and stumbled sometimes when he walked, particularly because he drank enormous quantities.

他的手和脚却十分小,这意味着他走路时可能有些蹒跚,在他豪饮之后更是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A book drop is the small metal door in the wall of the building where people can return books when the library is closed.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

For years,people have wondered whether they are safe from germs when they travel in small,enclosed areas.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

"When I was just a small kid I went to Corning Glass works and watched the glass blowers there and was really mesmerized by that.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

And years when most of us still thought of a "mouse" as a small creature.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Then,he remembered when as a small boy how he watched the wolves kill a moose.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

When rivers flood in South America, small pieces of land flow into the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

The movie has many funny parts. One of the most famous is when fifteen people are crowded into a very small room on a passenger ship.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

These settlers began to build small towns when they found areas they liked.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

If dark matter particles exist, scientists say, they should be able to observe a small amount of light given off when they hit the nucleus of a xenon atom.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

When you put a small seedling in, the roots are not deep enough to go into that water reservoir, so we need to bring the water up to the plant."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

Sometimes,when people get sick, they go to a small pharmacy, boutique or street corner, where vendors sell medicines that aren't effective.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

His other son, Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island,fondly remembered how even when he was small, his father included him in his beloved sailboat races off of Cape Cod.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"So I urged these institutions here today to go back and take a third and fourth look about how they are operating when it comes to small business and medium sized business lending,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

In the latest violence, officials in Zabul province say at least two civilians were killed and 21 wounded Saturda when a suicide bomber in a small town walked up to NATO and Afghan troops patrolling a market.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"What we are seeing in Iceland is that as the magma particles get towards the surface, they interact with the very cold water and they chill to form glassy fragments and these glassy fragments are small, they have sharp edges and when those get up in the air that is what is causing the risk to aviation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15