Small businesses are losing out to the large chains.
小商店被大型的连锁店抢了生意。
Small enterprises are suited to top filling in the gaps in the manufacture by large enterprises of complete sets of equipment.
(小企业为大企业)协作配套。
Nor were extinctions confined to large animals: small animals, plants, and insects disappeared, presumably not all through human consumption.
灭绝也不仅仅局限于大型动物：小型动物、植物和昆虫的消失，或许不是全部都由于人类的食用而消失。
This large gear drives the small one to rotate the drum.
这个大齿轮带动小齿轮使滚筒旋转。
This large gear turns the small one to rotate the cylinder.
这个大齿轮带动小齿轮使滚筒旋转。
They both have a long tail, which helps the squirrel to balance when jumping from tree to tree, and the same large eyes, small ears and powerful back legs.
它们都有一条长长的尾巴，帮助松鼠在从一棵树跳到另一棵树时保持平衡，还有同样的大眼睛、小耳朵和有力的后腿。
A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two million years and that it could explain hominid features like having a large brain and small teeth.
哈佛大学的一位人类学家提出，用火做饭可以追溯到近200万年前，这可以解释人类的一些特征，比如大脑大，牙齿小。
As a large corporation in a small country, Hachnut wants its managers to have international experience, so each year it sponsors management education abroad for its management trainees.
作为一个小国家的大公司，Hachnut希望它的经理们拥有国际经验，所以它每年都为其管培生在国外举办管理教育。
The small is $3.50 and the large is $5. It's a tough decision: the small size may not last you through the whole movie, but $5.50 for some sugary drink seems ridiculous.
小杯的3.5美元，大杯的5美元。这就很难决定了：小杯饮料可能撑不了你看完整部电影，但花5.5美元买杯含糖饮料又很荒谬。
The first group, known as the mega bats, are mostly medium-sized or large bats who eat fruits, flowers, and sometimes small animals or fish.
第一类被称为“巨型蝙蝠”，多为中型或大型蝙蝠，以水果、鲜花为生，有时也吃小动物或鱼。
Without this enclosure, but just within the street entrance, sat a grey-haired gentleman at a small table, with a large open ledger of some kind before him.
没有围墙，就在街口，一位白发苍苍的绅士坐在一张小桌旁，面前摆着一本打开的大账本。
Abandoning small extended-family households to move into these large pueblos with dozens if not hundreds of other people was probably traumatic.
抛弃小型的大家庭，和几十甚至几百人一起搬到这些大的村落里，这可能是痛苦的。
Defenders of telepathy point out that demanding impressive evidence from every study ignores one basic statistical fact: it takes large samples to detect small effects.
心灵感应的辩护者指出，要求每一项研究都有令人印象深刻的证据，这忽略了一个基本的统计事实：需要大量的样本才能检测到微小的影响。
They were no longer a series of small bands but lived in a large community with more elaborate social organization, probably grouped into clans of people of common descent.
他们不再是一些小群体，而是居住在一个大型的社会中，有更加复杂精细的社会组织，可能是以拥有共同的祖先的氏族来划分群体。
The town contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.
这个城市有好几条大街道，每条街道都非常相似，还有许多小街道也很相似，它们住的人都非常相似。
Although small companies were the first to have women directors, large corporations currently have a higher percentage of women on their boards.
虽然小公司是最早拥有女性董事的公司，但目前大公司董事会中的女性比例更高。
The poor living conditions in such a large city have resulted from the unplanned real estate development, which is rarely seen in small cities.
由于没有进行房地产开发规划，这么大的城市却有着如此糟糕的生活条件，这种现象在小城市中极为少见。
Although there is always some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.
尽管总是有发生大的冲击的风险，但谨慎的研究表明这种风险是相当小的。
In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.
近年来，许多中型城市开始采取中间路线，将大城市的兴奋和机遇与小城市午夜后的宁静结合起来。
Those pieces included small beds of roses and other items as well as a few dozen "nature carpets"—large rectangles decorated with foam pumpkins, cabbages, and watermelons.
这些作品包括用玫瑰和其他配件制成的小床，以及几十条“自然地毯”——用泡沫南瓜、卷心菜和西瓜装饰的矩形装饰。
They range from a few days for small lakes up to several hundred years for large ones; Lake Tahoe, in California, has a residence time of 700 years.
它们从小湖的几天到大湖的几百年不等；加州的太浩湖有700年的滞留时间。
There isn't much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas.
像格林维尔这样的小镇暴力犯罪并不多，至少不像大城市那么多。
Just as large companies are having to cut back, so small businesses are being forced to close.
大公司不得不紧缩，小企业则被迫关闭。
Ten years later, both large and small businesses had web pages, and most provided users with the opportunity to place an order.
十年后，大大小小的企业都有了网页，而且大多数企业都为用户提供了下单的机会。
For instance, islands often have not been colonized by large predators or are too small to hold feasible predator populations.
例如，岛屿通常没有大型食肉动物的殖民地，或者太小而无法容纳可行的食肉动物种群。
His kingdom was very small, but still quite large enough to marry upon; and he wished to marry.
他的王国很小，但仍然足够大，可以供他结婚；他也想结婚。
The maternal strategy evolved by harbor seals may have to do with their small size and the large proportion of their fat stores depleted in lactation.
麻斑海豹进化出的母性策略可能与它们的小体型和哺乳时消耗掉的大部分脂肪有关。
My own research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence uses in-depth interviews with small samples of youngsters rather than large-scale surveys.
我个人在斯坦福青少年研究中心的研究采用的是对小样本的青少年进行深入访谈的方式，而不是大规模的调查。
During spring, it is common for small towns in the Appalachian area to hold large ramp dinners for the community.
在春天，阿巴拉契亚地区的小城镇为社区举办大型斜坡晚宴是很常见的。
Although a small proportion of the total population, this perhaps had a massive local impact when a large proportion of the young men were removed from an area.
虽然在总人口中所占比例很小，但当很大比例的青年男子被迫迁出某一地区时，可能对当地产生巨大的影响。
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