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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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.

札幌酿酒厂的研究人员渊本说：“呼吸道合胞病毒会引发婴幼儿严重的肺炎和呼吸困难，但目前还没有可以遏制这一病毒的疫苗。”

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A small beer would be better, not black beer.

一小杯啤酒就好了，不要黑啤酒。

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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.

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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.

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