Fear of failure is the major impediment to generating solutions which are risky (i. e., small chance of succeeding) but would have a major impact if they are successful.

那些有风险的解决方案成功几率小，但若一旦成功，则影响很大，害怕失败是形成此类解决方案的主要障碍。

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A new air quality monitoring method on vehicle to overcome the disadvantage of the traditional method, i. e. small amount of the acquisition data set and small covered field is presented.

针对传统的大气质量监测方法获取数据量少、覆盖范围小的缺点，提出了一种利用车辆进行大气质量监测的方法。

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"There are concerns in most O.E.C.D.countries that the number of nurses is too small to respond to the demand.

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Bacterial cells are small, one to two microns in diameter and this shows a picture of a common bacterium called E. Coli.

细菌细胞很小,直径只有一到两个微米,这张图片是一种常见细菌,大肠杆菌

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"Petit" -- p-e-t-i-t comes from the French word for small.

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If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).

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Serialisation is making a comeback: a firm called DailyLit divides e-books into small chunks for drip-feeding by e-mail.

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And Hitt says the tremendous boom in farmers markets in the past decade has helped his e and other small farms.

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