Twenty years later, he completed a device that was smaller than the first two, and weighed less.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

They probably succeeded in subduing some of their neighbors, collecting tribute--there's some controversy about that but in about 922 this kingdom divided into two smaller and lesser kingdoms that fell in importance.

也可能成功征服了周围的一些邻国并接受朝贡，但这点是有争议的,但约公元前922年，这个王国,分裂为两个更小更次要的国家,重要性当然也随之降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

OK. And then the exponentials, as you saw is when typically I reduce the problem of one size into two or more sub-problems of a smaller size.

好，然后说到指数级，正如你所见，典型的例子是,我讲一个问题分解成为,两个更小规模的子问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Instead,he attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, a smaller school with a division two sports program.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Then there's Fitch, who's the third, which is smaller than these two.

还有一个排名第三的评级机构叫惠誉,它比前两家规模要小一些

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Visions of soaring high-rises crumbling may grip the imagination but Surahman says it is the smaller one and two storey dwellings that are most vulnerable in places like Indonesia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

That this recursive call had two sub-problems of a smaller size, not one.

而不是一个,这会有很大的不同。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mr.Talabani,who is an ethnic Kurd, and whose Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) is the smaller of Kurdistan's two major parties, has been mediating between other Kurdish leaders to put an end to the terror activities of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK), which have long angered Ankara.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23