Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

艾萨克·牛顿爵士比起河马的体型可小多了，但是我们并不会因此贬低他。

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There used to be transport problems, now though there are new train links and better roads, but it may be that some smaller towns inland remain not very well connected, is that OK?

过去存在交通问题，尽管现在有新的火车线路和更好的道路，但一些内陆的小城镇与外界可能仍然没有很好的连接，这样可以吗？

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"Well," the trainer said, "when they were very young and much smaller, we used the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it was enough to hold them."

“嗯，”驯兽师说，“当它们还很小的时候，我们用同样尺寸的绳子绑住它们，在那个年龄，这足够拴住它们了。”

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Edited volumes with a number of smaller chapters in them on food and history and they're really very good.

里面有很多小节,是关于饮食与历史的,非常值得一读

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We have some smaller courses which are very mathematic form, which will not be taught in this format.

我们还有一些和数学,非常相关的小型课程，将不会用这种方式。

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Because we know as we go to infinity, even though the density gets smaller and smaller and smaller, we still have electron density very far away from the nucleus.

因为我们知道即使到了无穷远处，尽管电子密度会变得非常非常非常小，但我们仍然有一定的电子密度，无论离原子核多远。

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The story is very different on the smaller farms, where workers live off-site in their own often squalid and insecure housing.

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"The pharmacists made a very good case that smaller pharmacies - particularly those out of town perhaps - are experiencing higher costs, " he said.

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Even though the world is getting smaller and smaller, very few startups can yet afford to patent or even sell their product in all the relevant countries at once.

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