伊莎贝拉是一个羞怯的孩子，很小的时候就已经学会了顺从。
A timid child, Isabella had learned obedience at an early age.
窗户很小，镶着菱形的玻璃，而且像门一样，是通过铰链向外打开的。
The windows were small, glazed with little diamond-shaped panes, and they opened outward, on hinges, like doors.
“像我这样的人可能正在以一种很小的方式产生影响。”简·麦考特曾经是一名投资银行家，现在在英国中部地区经营着自己的40公顷土地，囤积着一些稀有品种。
"People like me may be making a difference in a small way," Jan McCourt, a onetime investment banker now running his own 40-hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare breeds.
小气候是很小的，非常容易受到干扰，即使是很小的变化也会产生很大的影响。
A microclimate can be something so small and so easily disturbed that even a tiny change can have a big impact.
因为数量巨大，即使是很小的质量也意味着中微子会超过宇宙中所有可见的物质。
Even a tiny mass means that neutrinos would outweigh all the universe's visible matter, because of their vast numbers.
他们还认为他们可以解释本月早些时候，从地球上看到的明亮闪光，尽管是很小的一颗流星，但没有飞多远。
They also think they can explain the bright flash seen from the earth earlier this month: it was a meteor, though a small one that didn't get very far.
据卢卡说，海洋是种植植物的好地方，因为水下温度较为稳定，昼夜变化很小。
According to Luca, the sea is a good place to grow plants because underwater temperatures remain stable, changing little from day to night.
当浮动冰架破裂时，对海平面的影响很小；而与之不同的是，固定在基岩上的冰盖将会使海面炸毁。
Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.
当所有这些因素放在一起，并且由经济学家计算得出这些数字时，它最终的净值是正数，但只是一个很小的数。
When all those factors are put together and the economists calculate the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one.
经过生物工程改造的棉花种植场可以生产自己的抗棉铃虫杀虫剂，而棉铃虫是造成农作物歉收的主要原因，直到今年，棉铃虫的危害都很小。
Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year.
有时候这是很自然的，但是你的邻居成为你所选择的朋友或者你成为他们的朋友的可能性是很小的。
It sometimes happens naturally, but the chances are very small that your neighbors will be your choices friends or that you will be theirs, either.
我是说这种工具声音不会很大；它发出的声音很小，你得倾身细听。
What I mean is that this tool doesn't speak loudly; it whispers, and you have to lean forward to hear it.
海马是一种很小的鱼类，它喜欢生活在温暖的水域，当它在水里游的时候它总是站立的姿势。
The sea horse is a small fish. It likes living in warm water. A sea horse always stands up in the water when it swims.
达尔文最初的论点以及进化渐进主义者所支持的观点是，物种的变化是持续的，但非常缓慢，增量也很小。
Darwin's original thesis, and the viewpoint supported by evolutionary gradualists, is that species change continuously but slowly and in small increments.
你看，当珊瑚礁经历白化时，整个珊瑚礁群受到的影响是很小的。
See, when coral reefs experience bleaching, it's rarely a case of the whole reef being affected.
在我逃离的马里兰州的那个地区，在孩子很小的时候就把他们的母亲和他们分开是一种常见的习俗。
It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.
如果是原子质量一定，而电子很小，那么带正电荷的部分几乎占据了全部质量。
If the atom is fixed mass, and the electron is tiny, it must be the positives have all the mass.
即使是很小的声音，通过扬声器也能变得更大！
它看起来是一件很小的东西，却是一件巨大的宝藏。
It seemed like such a small thing, but it was a great treasure.
范德梅尔认为，研究结果表明了儿童在很小的时候学习画画和写字的重要性，尤其是在学校。
Van der Meer believes that the results show the importance of children's learning to draw and write at an early age, especially at school.
他们那被构造出来，这些过程必须很小，这好像很难，但实际上是可以做到的。
They might have to be formulated as very small steps, in order to do that, but you could.
他们要开战为的是两个很小的爱琴海岛屿，希腊人把它称为伊米阿，土耳其人把它称为卡达卡。
They were about to go to war over two tiny Aegean islets called Imia by the Greeks and Kardak by the Turks.
【脚注：芝麻是一种很小的谷物。】
在他们的概念里，太空很小，以地球为中心并且是个标准的球体。
In their minds, the universe was small, centered on Earth and organized into perfect spheres.
定位的市场是很小的，但也是有利可图的，是市场上对你的产品有需求的那一部分。
A niche is a small, but profitable, segment of the market where there is demand for your product.
它发生的原因是在高温极限下，这个指数就会很小，对吗？
That happened because in the limit of high temperature, then this exponent is really small, right?
但是对那些不想祈祷顺利平安的人来说，实在是个很小的代价。
But for those who want to save their prayers, it's a small price to pay.
那时纺织是长时间单调、重复的工作，自动化程度很小。
Weaving then was a long, tedious and repetitive process with little automation.
贸易商和投资者们担心的是获胜的一方优势很小或者势均力敌无人胜出。
What worries traders and investors is not so much who wins as the possibility that no one will.
在我很小的时候，我不知是怎么的，我觉得注定——是啊，注定！——会成为作家。
When I was very little, I somehow knew that I was doomed-yes, doomed! -to become a writer.
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