Unfortunately, there is little prospect of seeing these big questions answered.
遗憾的是,几乎没有可能看到这些重大问题得到解答。
There was a little wooden flute in there. I tootled on it and passed it around.
这有个小木笛,我拨弄了一会儿然后给了别人。
There is generally little doubt that fire is a significant factor in maintaining savanna, certainly in most regions.
火灾是维持稀树草原的一个重要因素,在大多数地区都是如此,(人们)对此通常很少有疑问。
The wide diversity of Asian Americans was overlooked; there was very little mention of South Asians or Pacific Islanders, for example.
亚裔美国人的多样性被忽视了;比如,很少有人会提到南亚裔或太平洋岛民这种说法。
Dummling went straight into the forest, and there sat the little grey man to whom he had given his cake.
小傻瓜径直走进森林,那儿坐着那个他给过蛋糕的白发小老头。
There is little evidence that harsher punishments deter any better than more lenient ones.
甚少证据显示严惩比宽大更能遏止犯罪。
First of all, there are not many of them, and secondly, they have little money and, thirdly, they're hungry.
首先,他们人数不多;第二,他们没什么钱;第三,他们在挨饿。
There is little prejudice against workers from other EU states.
对来自其他欧盟国家的劳工可说并无偏见。
There is little chance that we will succeed in changing the law. Nevertheless, it is important that we try.
我们几乎没有可能改变法律。不过,重要的是我们努力争取。
There seems to be little difference whether you eat all your calorie allowance at once, or spread it over the day.
无论你是一次性吃完全天的卡路里限量还是分散在一天里吃,似乎没多大区别。
I understand that there are a number of projects going on. Could you tell us a little bit about those?
我知道有一些项目正在进行之中。你能给我们简单谈谈那些项目吗?
Realistically, there is little prospect of a ceasefire.
实事求是地讲,停火的希望很渺茫。
It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive.
雨正静静地下着,砂砾车道上积了一滩滩的水。
There now seems little chance of rapprochement between the warring factions.
目前,敌对双方和解的可能性似乎很渺茫。
Each soldier received his pay, but in regions without a developed economy, there was initially little on which it could be spent.
每个士兵都领到了工资,但最初在经济不发达的地区几乎没有什么花钱的地方。
However little there is to eat, he always saves a bit o' his bread to coax his pets.
不管吃的有多么少,他总是省下一点他的面包来哄他的宠物。
It is a global record: there is remarkably little variation in isotope ratios in sedimentary specimens taken from different continental locations.
这是一个全球性的记录:在取自不同大陆位置的沉积标本中,同位素比率的变化非常小。
There is little doubt, however, that desertification in most areas results primarily from human activities rather than natural processes.
然而,几乎毫无疑问,大多数地区的沙漠化主要是由于人类活动而不是自然过程造成的。
There is little evidence that the storms have caused the enough reef damage to create a food shortage for these starfish.
几乎没有证据表明,风暴造成了足够的珊瑚礁破坏,造成这些海星的食物短缺。
One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.
当然,人们不能对此表示赞赏,但人们确实觉得这只是多了一点借口。
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information," quipped Oscar Wilde in 1894.
1894年,奥斯卡·王尔德嘲笑说:“如今,几乎没有无用的信息,这是非常可悲的事情。”
There is little point doing that if a tablet user can simply read the news for free on a web browser.
如果平板电脑用户在网络浏览器上就可以免费阅读新闻,那么这样做就没有什么意义了。
Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now.
不久以前这里发生过一件事,我直到好多天以后才知道,但现在我要把这件事告诉你。
Fast food such as KFC may owe their popularity to the fact that there is usually little waiting.
像肯德基这样的快餐之所以受欢迎也许要归功于这样一个事实,那就是等餐的时间短。
The study shows that boys generally did better than girls in science, but there was little difference between them in maths.
研究表明,男孩通常比女孩在科学上表现更好,但他们在数学上几乎没有差别。
In their educational background, special skills and work experience, there is little, if anything, to choose between half a dozen candidates.
从他们的教育背景、特殊技能和工作经验来看,在六个候选人中几乎没有什么可选的。
In seeking to describe the origins of theater, one must rely primarily on speculation, since there is little concrete evidence on which to draw.
在试图描述戏剧的起源时,人们必须主要依靠推测,因为几乎没有具体的证据可以引证。
Wildman and Niles were particularly interested in investigating the conditions under which reflection might flourish—a subject on which there is little guidance in the literature.
怀尔德曼和奈尔斯特别感兴趣的是研究在何种条件下,思考可能会活跃——这是一个在文献中几乎没有任何指导的主题。
If you divide this spectrum into 10 units and you find yourself at Position 7, then there is little sense in trying to convince someone at Position 1.
如果将这个范围划分为10个区间,你发现自己处于第7位,那么试图说服处于第1位的人就没有什么意义了。
Such a tremendous noise was going on in the banqueting-hall that there was little danger of their being overheard.
宴会厅里的喧闹声如此之大,他们不太可能被人听到。
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