有几种原因可以解释这种矮小的现象。
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
这些纹身间或在坟墓的壁画中被发现，小型的女性雕像则在大腿处有矮小的Bes神祗画像。
The tattoos occasionally found in tomb scenes and on small female figurines which form part of cosmetic items also have small figures of the dwarf god Bes on the thigh area.
屋里走出了一个身材矮小的老妇，她捧着一盘曲奇饼，那盘曲奇饼摆放得就像一块可以吃的迎宾垫。
From out of the house stepped a little old woman, cookies held in front of her like an9 edible 10 welcome mat.
曼兹是前皇家海军潜艇指挥官，是个说话婉转，身材矮小的人，一点也不象报纸上说的钻牛角尖的怪人。
Menzies, a former Royal Navy submarine commander, is a soft-spoken and diminutive presence, not at all the obsessive eccentric he's been painted in the press.
就在我因为失败的压力消沉的时候，一个个头矮小的人把手放在我的肩头上，直视着我的眼睛，用他沙哑但奇妙的声音说道：“没关系。”
As I slumped under the weight of my defeat, a small man put his hand on my shoulder, looked me in the eye, and said in that wonderful raspy voice, that's all right.
在那个时代，业余爱好者的计算机就是四四方方的木头盒子加上一个金属底架，而他设计的AppleII，是圆滑矮小的塑料包，可以放在书房或者厨房。
And at a time when hobbyist computers were boxy wooden affairs with metal chassis, he designed the Apple II as a sleek, low-slung plastic package intended for the den or the kitchen.
足球城可以容纳94700名观众，不过与周围几十年来采矿作业所留下的矿渣堆相比，整个体育场就显得十分矮小了。
Capable of seating 94,700 spectators, Soccer City is nevertheless dwarfed by nearby slag piles left over from decades-long mining operations.
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.
可能智慧之棒将会移交给这些新发明，这样一来：搜索外星智慧生命的人们寻找的不应是矮小绿色外星生物，而是小小的绿色机器。
Perhaps the baton of intelligence will be passed to these contraptions, in which case, those looking for extraterrestrial life should be seeking not little green men but little green machines.
是的，他比她父亲要么高挑，要么矮小，要么更加富有，穿着更加考究或是更邋遢，但是他表现情感的基调跟她父亲如出一辙。
Yes, he was taller or shorter or made more money, or wore better clothes or worse, but his emotional tone was similar to her father.
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."
结果发现，身材矮小、体重较重的女性生的孩子比高个、苗条的女性要多；血压和胆固醇指标较低的女性多育的几率也较高。
It found that shorter, heavier women had more children than lighter, taller ones. Women with lower blood pressure and cholesterol were also more likely to have large families.
艾比得了一种非常罕见的先天性不对称身材矮小性发育异综合征，又称原始侏儒症，发病率只有十万分之一。
She suffers from a very rare genetic condition called Russell-Silver syndrome, a form of primordial dwarfism which affects only one in 100,000 babies.
在这些模糊的图片中，一片片矮小荒芜的木榴油和豆科灌木随着微风摇摆；还有一些则是苍鹭在格兰德河的浅溪中啄食鱼类。
In some of the grainy pictures, scrubby and deserted patches of creosote and mesquite sway in a gentle wind; in others, herons peck at fish in the shallow trickle of the Rio Grande.
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.
由于身材矮小以及天生内向，萨马兰奇出现在公众面前的时候无论表情还是说话都让人觉得不自然。
Small in stature and shy by nature, Samaranch appeared uncomfortable appearing or speaking in public.
它矮小平凡，旁边高大笔直的橡树和杨树让它相形见绌；坐着马车从它身边经过的游客都不会瞅它一眼，可能只有鸟儿和想吃松子的松鼠会喜欢它。
Squat, homely, dwarfed by the stately oaks and poplars nearby and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love.
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.
虽然现代的骑师通常都身材矮小，那将使他们在马背上更加轻盈，但“littleman”的含义更类似于“平民”或“下属”。
Though modern jockeys are diminutive in size and this gives them an advantage of being light on a horses back, the meaning of “little man” was more along the lines of “commoner” or “underling.”
对杰拉尔德来说，他从不以自己身材矮小而自怨自艾，也从不认为这会阻碍他去获得自己所需要的一切。
It was like Gerald that he never wasted regrets on his lack of height and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anything he wanted.
本专栏将Playmobil玩偶提名为“年度欧洲人”。 这是一个身形矮小，两腿僵直，始终面带微笑的塑料小人，诞生于30年前，如今年每年要生产8000万个。
This column offers as its European of the Year Playmobil man, a short, stiff-legged, eternally smiling, plastic figure first created three decades ago, and today churned out at a rate of 80m a year.
本专栏将Playmobil玩偶提名为“年度欧洲人”。 这是一个身形矮小，两腿僵直，始终面带微笑的塑料小人，诞生于30年前，如今年每年要生产8000万个。
This column offers as its European of the Year Playmobil man, a short, stiff-legged, eternally smiling, plastic figure first created three decades ago, and today churned out at a rate of 80m a year.
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