His account goes on to explain surprisingly recognisable dose instructions, but less conventional means to dissolve the powder recommending it be dissolved in small beer and such like '.

接下来的记录中他对药物剂量作了说明，但这种粉末不能容于通常的溶剂，因此他推荐用啤酒或类似的溶剂溶解它们。

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A tiny by-election for the state assembly PAS already dominates is ordinarily small beer (or would be, if PAS allowed such a beverage, which it does not).

州议会中，PAS已然处于支配地位，赢下区区一个递补选举，可谓小菜一碟（更确切地说，如果PAS承认有这么一“菜”，将是小菜一碟——但是他们不承认）。

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Since only small quantities of humulone can be found in beer, researchers say you would have to drink adequate amounts of it to benefit from the anti-virus effect.

干杯！一项新研究指出，在啤酒中发现的一种关键成分能有效对抗呼吸道病毒，啤酒可能有助于防治冬日感冒和伤风。

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This may be small beer by American standards, but is scarcely what is expected of a declining industrial city in north-east Scotland.

ECONOMIST: Biotechnology in Scotland

Perhaps this will be yet another French political scandal, albeit small beer compared with some previous pots de vin, destined to drag through the years as the judicial system bends this way and that to the pressures of politics.

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So, for the first time since 2008, the "big" issues in tomorrow's Budget will be politically explosive, but in economic terms, very small beer indeed.

BBC: Budget 2012: A big debate about small numbers