To harvest oil and gas profitably from the North Sea, we must focus on the exploitation of small reserves as the big wells run dry.

由于大油井的枯竭，要想从北海有利地获取石油和天然气，我们必须集中精力于小储量油井的开采。

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The first manifests itself in our tireless search for the magical level at which welfare grants are big enough to meet basic needs but small enough to make low-paid work attractive.

第一个体现在我们孜孜不倦地追求平衡的水平上，在这个水平上，福利津贴要大到足以满足基本需要，但又要小到足以使低收入工作具有吸引力。

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Sometimes small firms can outdo big business when it comes to customer care.

在顾客服务方面，有时小企业可能优于大企业。

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He says when it comes to saving energy and money, big changes start with small steps like turning out the lights.

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And that's because it's easier to test small things than big things. And it's easier to debug small things than big things.

这是因为对小一点的对象,进行测试比对大一点的对象进行测,试要简单多了，调试也是如此。

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Well if you've created fragments here and they're fragments of different size, the small ones are going to move faster than the big ones.

如果你制造了一些长短不同的片段,那小片段会比大片段移动得快一些

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Big to small, weak to strong.

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But what's big to a small biotechnology company is not so big for a drug giant, even one that has notable gaps in its drug pipeline.

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But regulators still tend to imagine that power will flow in one direction only: from big plants to small consumers.

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