一些比较小的公司可能会关闭。
需要相对较小的修改。
所需金额相对较小。
他们决定以低租金把那些较小的办公室租出去。
这就意味着较小银行在贷款高峰期能将高额利润入私帐。
This means smaller banks can cream off big profits during lending booms.
以色列拥有一支规模相对较小的常备军，它的兵力基于其预备役部队。
Israel has a relatively small standing army and its strength is based on its reserves.
在过去的几年里，较小公司的股票在总体上表现不如较大公司的股票。
Smaller companies' stocks generally have underperformed larger ones in the past several years.
罢工给全国最大航空公司带来的影响使得较小的航空公司轻易捡到便宜。
The strike affecting the country's largest airline is producing easy pickings for smaller companies.
缺乏锻炼也是导致心脏病的一个因素。但和其他因素相比，这种危险较小。
Lack of exercise is also a risk factor for heart disease but it's relatively small when compared with the others.
外出就餐时使用较小的饭碗。
这是一个较小的圆角矩形。
然而，制造业在经济中所占的比例相对较小。
Manufacturing, however, constitutes a relatively small proportion of the economy.
对许多较小的岛屿来说，糖是唯一的出口产品。
也就是说，这些较小的数字是较大数字的基础。
That is, these smaller numbers are the basis of larger numbers.
欧洲铁路的生产率也有了显著提高，尽管程度较小。
Europe's railways have also shown marked, albeit smaller, productivity improvements.
人们更青睐较小的午餐盒，因为它们能轻松装入背包里。
Smaller lunch boxes are preferred because they fit easily into backpacks.
第二类被称为“微型蝙蝠”，体型较小，主要以昆虫为食。
The second group, called micro bats, are smaller in size and mostly eat insects.
如今有许多新兴的、规模较小的行业，但哪些是最有前途的呢？
There are plenty of emerging, smaller industries, but which ones are the most promising?
根据无线电测量数据，我们可以得知盆地里有许多较小的陨石坑。
From radio survey data, we know that the basin contains lots of smaller craters.
他的棍棒和戒尺现在很少闲置了——至少在年龄较小的学生中是这样。
His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now--at least among the smaller pupils.
由此产生的较小的气泡也会让产出一层质地浓郁、像奶油一般的泡沫。
The resulting smaller bubbles also yield a layer of foam whose texture is rich and creamy.
对于胃部较小的动物来说，不断寻找食物并消化的过程会消耗大量能量。
For animals with small stomachs, it takes lots of energy to constantly look for food and then digest it.
下降的岩石比周围的地幔的温度低很多，因此延展性较小，更容易断裂。
The descending rock is substantially cooler than the surrounding mantle and hence is less ductile and much more liable to fracture.
摇晃袋子中的精华粉，撕下透气胶布的较小贴纸，然后将袋子贴到到足底。
Shake up the quintessential powder in the bag, tear down the smaller paster of the ventilate adhesive plaster, and then attach the bag to the volar.
航空公司内部升级的压力比较小，除非是为了安全问题或省钱而重新设计。
There's less pressure on the airlines to upgrade the interior, unless it's a safety issue or a redesign that will save money.
在越野旅程中，动物们必须穿越许多面积较小的水域，比如河流和小湖泊。
In their cross-country journey, the animals must traverse many smaller bodies of water, such as rivers and small lakes.
如果脑子比较小的古猿不是工具制造者，那他们直立行走的进化优势是什么？
If the small-brained australopithecines were not toolmakers, what evolutionary advantage did they gain by walking upright?
结果显示，比起受鸟类影响较小的池塘，离栖息地最近的池塘里污染物含量更高。
In ponds closest to the colony, the results showed there were far more pollutants than in ponds less affected by the birds.
海冰的形成导致表水中盐的浓度增加；海冰的减少意味着盐浓度的增加幅度较小。
The formation of sea ice causes the concentration of salt in surface waters to increase; less sea ice would mean a smaller increase in the concentration of salt.
较大的气泡迅速上升到水面并消失，而被称为微气泡的较小的气泡可以持续数天。
Larger ones rise quickly to the surface and disappear, whilst smaller ones called micro-bubbles can last for days.
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