观众见到我本人时常说的第一句话往往是“你比在电视上看上去矮小一些”。
The first thing viewers usually say when they see me in the flesh is "You're smaller than you look on TV."
有几种原因可以解释这种矮小的现象。
“矮小并不意味着虚弱，先生。”她为自己辩解道。
“海蒂，”克拉拉说，“你当然不能；你可比我矮小多了。”
"Heidi," Clara said,"of course you can't; you are much smaller than I am."
她身材矮小，头发乌黑，五十多岁，我们甚至对着对方笑过一两次。
She is short with dark hair, in her fifties, and we'd even smiled at each other once or twice.
在她这个年龄段，她个子属于矮小，而且她不和班上的其他孩子一起玩。
She was small for her age, and she didn't play with the other kids in her class.
我们走进其中一条小巷，然后拐进一条非常狭窄的街道，街道上有许多矮小陈旧的房子。
We went into one of the small streets, and then into a very narrow street, with small, old houses.
雨林有自己完善的系统来确保自身的生存；高大的树木有枝叶形成的树冠层来保护自身，树冠也保护着矮小的植物以及动物不受暴雨、酷暑及强风的侵扰。
Rainforests have their own perfect system for ensuring their own survival; the tall trees make a canopy of branches and leaves which protect themselves, smaller plants, and the forest animals from heavy rain, intense dry heat from the sun and strong winds.
临床表现为球形晶状体、晶状体脱位、青光眼、短指、身材矮小等。
Clinical features include microspherophakia, lens ectopia, glaucoma, brachydactyly, short status and so on.
由于街道的扩建，道路两旁矮小的房屋全部被拆除了。
The low and small houses on both sides of the road have been demolished due to its widening.
一些队员是皮包骨，矮小的身材，看到大海他们牙齿会打颤。
Some men who were skinny and short and whose teeth chattered just looking at the ocean also made it.
但这个矮小，自信的科吉代言人很快就彻底改变了人们对他的成见。
But this small, self-assured spokesman for the Kogi soon subverts that stereotype.
这个证据同样暗示着这个新星诞生源于一个矮小星系的撞击和融合。
The evidence also suggests that the star birth in NGC 4150 was sparked by a collision and merger with a dwarf galaxy.
如果男性个子矮小而且没有钱，则女性会降低标准，仍会选取10%。
If the men were short and poor, then the women lowered their standards, and still picked 10 per cent.
但仔细观察会发现：走道更宽阔、椅子更结实、桌子更矮小。
But look more closely: the aisles are wider, the chairs sturdier and the tables lower.
十几岁的时候我曾经担心我的矮小是否会影响我的寿命，妨碍我生孩子。
As a teenager I worried whether being small would affect my life expectancy and prevent me from having children.
他个子矮小，而且，我不想说他不好看，所以为只能说他看上去很一般吧。
He was short, and, well I don't want to say homely, so I'll say he was plain looking.
由于长时间的重活和欠缺足够的食物与照顾，伊克巴尔比一般的孩子矮小。
Due to long hours of hard work and insufficient food and care, Iqbal was undersized.
感谢艾琳和她为我做的一切，身高的矮小从未阻止我做任何值得做的事情。
Thanks to Eileen, and the confidence she has installed in me, being small has never prevented me doing anything worth doing.
一方面，猫是食肉动物；另一方面，它们身材矮小很容易被捕食。
On the one hand, cats are predators, but on the other, they're small enough to be prey.
透过矮小的杂树林我看见河湾，像蕨类植物叶子背面一样闪着银光。
Through stubby spinneys of akeake I saw the bend of a river, as silvery as the underside of a fern.
出乎意料的是我从自己的矮小身材中成长了很多，它丰富了我的生活。
I've ironically grown taller from being short. It's enriched my life.
然而尽管有这样的历练，由于身材矮小，马拉多纳几乎与足球生涯无缘。
Despite this toughening process, however, Maradona's physique, or lack of it, almost cost him his career.
这儿有一条未经修筑的弯弯曲曲的道路，路两边排列着一些矮小的农舍。
The place consisted of a straggling unmade road which was lined on either side by small houses.
然而最大的谜团就是这骸骨不是土著种族的，更不是较矮小的高加索人的。
Yet the greatest mystery is that the remains are not of the indigenous race, but rather of a small human with Caucasian characteristics.
在过去五年中，中国的人均收人平均增长10.2%，让印度的6.8%数目显得很矮小。
Over the past five years, the 10.2% average increase in China's income per head dwarfed India's 6.8% gain.
我以前常常从厨房的窗户看到她穿梭于操场上的一群男孩子中间，她显得那么矮小。
I used to watch her from my kitchen window, she seemed so small as she shuttled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground.
最近的一天早晨，这位身材矮小的男人从某骑警还在行驶的丰田车(印第安纳制造)上跳了下来。
On a recent morning this small man leapt out of a trooper 's Toyota (Indiana-made) while it was still moving.
虽然这位英格兰门将兼队长年事渐高，但也无法让人相信他会争不过个子矮小的马拉多纳。
Though the English captain and keeper was getting on in years, the possibility of him being out-leaped by the diminutive Maradona seemed unbelievable - and indeed it was.
虽然这位英格兰门将兼队长年事渐高，但也无法让人相信他会争不过个子矮小的马拉多纳。
Though the English captain and keeper was getting on in years, the possibility of him being out-leaped by the diminutive Maradona seemed unbelievable - and indeed it was.
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