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

VOA: special.2010.08.03

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

And small is not derogatory here, by the way, it just says the size of things you're going to be able to do.

顺便一提，这里的小并不是贬义，只是代表你有能力做的,事儿的规模而已。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Well if you've created fragments here and they're fragments of different size, the small ones are going to move faster than the big ones.

如果你制造了一些长短不同的片段,那小片段会比大片段移动得快一些

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And only a small amount of fluoridated toothpaste, the size of a green pea, should be used.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It follows over eighteen thousand pieces of debris as small as the size of a baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

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

The small shapes of two men at the bottom showed the dam's huge size.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

The truth of the matter is if you look at the technology industry, there's always a few big guys, some medium size guys, lots of small guys, and the names are always changing because the industry is so darn dynamic, and there's so much new stuff being invented.

真相是，如果你回首科技行业，人总会分为三六九等，耳熟能详的名字总在变化,因为这个行业发展实在太快了，有如此多的新事物被发明出来。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Some visitors say they feel so small when measured against the canyon's great size.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

They're not whole genomes, but they're some small piece of DNA maybe the size of a protein.

不是整个基因组,而是小的DNA片段,但也许与蛋白质分子一样大

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This is a very very different product. This is in the French European tradition, is its very very small just about the size of a half dollar or so.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

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

"Over and over we hear from small and medium-size businesses that they can not get the financial assistance, they can't get the technical support that would grow their business.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Despite its small size, the community is strong in its convictions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26