The problem is that a big screen will use more power (shortening battery life) and be much less portable than a small screen, so netbooks will tend to have smaller screens than notebooks.

问题在于大屏幕要消耗更多电力（缩短电池工作时间），而且相较于较小的屏幕，其便携性也较差，所以上网本还是会倾向于使用比笔记本电脑更小的屏幕。

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The first rule charges $2 for packages that weigh less than 1 pound and are smaller than 9 cubic feet.

第一个规则指定重量小于 1 磅且体积小于 9 立方英寸的包裹的费用为 2 美元。

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The footprint of the integrated product will in practice be smaller than something like Spring (but bigger than Guice), and will require a whole lot less configuration to use.

集成后产品的规模实际上会比Spring这样的东西更小（但是比Guice要大），而且不需要很多配置。

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Twenty years later, he completed a device that was smaller than the first two, and weighed less.

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The credit unions are even smaller, $748 billion -so it's less than $1 trillion in credit unions.

信用合作社就更小了,7480亿美元,还不到1万亿美元

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So what we can say here is that the 2 p is less than or smaller than the 2 s orbital.

所以我们可以说,2p轨道比2s轨道要小。

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