small

small

美 [smɔl]  英 [smɔːl]

  • adj.(尺寸、数量、程度等)小的;(服装、食品、家庭用品等)小号的
  • adv.成为小块;小小地
  • n.后腰;小件衣服(尤指内衣)
  • 网络少的;小型;微小

词形变化

比较级:smaller  最高级:smallest  

词语搭配

同义词

adj.

反义词

英汉双解

adj.
not large
1.
(尺寸、数量、程度等)小的not large in size, number, degree, amount, etc.
a small house/town/car/man
小房子;小镇;小型汽车;小个子男人
A much smaller number of students passed than I had expected.
通过考试的学生比我预计的少得多。
They're having a relatively small wedding.
他们的婚礼不准备大办。
That dress is too small for you.
那件连衣裙你穿太小。
‘I don't agree,’ he said in a small(= quiet) voice.
“我不同意。”他小声说。
2.
(服装、食品、家庭用品等)小号的,小型的used to describe one size in a range of sizes of clothes, food, products used in the house, etc.
small, medium, large
小号、中号、大号
This is too big─have you got a small one?
这个太大了,有没有小的?
3.
(同类事物中)小的not as big as sth else of the same kind
the small intestine
小肠
年幼young
4.
年幼的;幼小的young
They have three small children.
他们有三个年幼的孩子。
We travelled around a lot when I was small.
我小的时候,我们时常四处旅行。
As a small boy he had spent most of his time with his grandparents.
他幼年时多半时间是跟爷爷奶奶在一起。
不重要not important
5.
些微的;不重要的slight; not important
I made only a few small changes to the report.
我对报告只做了几处小改动。
She noticed several small errors in his work.
她注意到他作业中有几处小错。
Everything had been planned down to the smallest detail.
一切都已做了细致入微的安排。
It was no small achievement getting her to agree to the deal.
能让她同意那笔交易可是个不小的成就。
企业business
6.
[ubn]
小规模的not doing business on a very large scale
a small farmer
小农场主
The government is planning to give more help to small businesses.
政府正计划给予小企业更多帮助。
字母letters
7.
[ubn]
小写的not written or printed as capitals
Should I write ‘god’ with a small ‘g’ or a capital?
god 里面的字母 g,我该写成小写还是大写?
She's a socialist with a small ‘s’(= she has socialist ideas but is not a member of a socialist party) .
她信仰社会主义,但不是社会党人。
not much
8.
[obn]
极少的;不多的little; not much
The government has small cause for optimism.
几乎没有什么可以使政府感到乐观的。
They have small hope of succeeding.
他们成功的希望不大。
IDM
Well, at least you weren't hurt. I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies.
嗨,至少你没受伤。我想这就该让我们知足了。
be grateful/thankful for small mercies
为情况不太坏而庆幸to be happy that a situation that is bad is not as bad as it could have been
Well, at least you weren't hurt. I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies.
嗨,至少你没受伤。我想这就该让我们知足了。
its a small world
(意外遇见某人或发现对方也认识某人时表示惊讶)世界真小used to express your surprise when you meet sb you know in an unexpected place, or when you are talking to sb and find out that you both know the same person
look/feel small
显得(或感觉)矮人一截;愧不如人to look or feel stupid, weak, ashamed, etc.
adv.
1.
成为小块into small pieces
Chop the cabbage up small.
把卷心菜剁碎。
2.
小小地in a small size
You can fit it all in if you write very small.
你字写小点,就可以全部填进去。
n.
1.
[sing]
the ~ of the/sb's back
后腰the lower part of the back where it curves in
2.
[pl]
小件衣服(尤指内衣)small items of clothing, especially underwear

英汉解释

adj.
1.
小 (opp. large) 少 (opp. large, numerous) 细小的;窄小的;琐细的;些微的;少额的(收入等);小规模的
2.
难为情的,觉得羞耻的;低级的,贫穷的;卑劣的
3.
(雨)细微的;(声音)微弱的;(酒等)清淡的
4.
吝啬的,小器的,小心眼儿的
n.
1.
腰部;细小部分
2.
小物,琐碎东西;身分低的人
3.
同“小商品;〔英口〕小件洗濯物;〔英牛津大学〕〔pl.〕responsions. (the) great and (the) small”
adv.
1.
小声地,轻轻地(讲等)

英英解释

adj.
n.
1.
Same as 小商品;〔英口〕小件洗濯物;〔英牛津大学〕〔pl.〕responsions. (the) great and (the) small

例句

He fell there on his hands and knees to check himself, for that rock was small and he might have pitched over on the far side.

他落地的时候向前一扑,用双手双膝撑住了身体,要不,岩石那么小,他可能冲过头。

He closed his eyes and could see once more the small dark forms he saw last summer.

他闭上眼睛还是又一次看到了他去年夏天所看到的小黑影。

From a technological point of view, the small size of the electronic circuits is not the only.

从工艺观点来看,电子电路的小型化并不是上述技术唯一的。

A small man of about thirty, with green eyes and a tangle of fair hair, stood looking down at me.

我面前站着一个三十岁上下的矮小的汉子,碧绿的眼睛,一头乱七八糟的淡黄头发,他正低头望着我。

He was thinking of a time when he had been caught in a small town in Nebraska.

他想起自己当初曾流落在内布拉斯加的一个小镇上。

She received him in a little parlor: a small unspeckled bower, ornamented with a desultory foliage of tissue paper.

她在一间小小的客厅里接待他。小小的房间一尘不染,室内装饰着用皱纸做成的飘逸的枝叶。

His small eyes gleamed with a green light, his whole face had a look as if he gnawed himself.

他的小眼睛闪着绿光,整个脸庞看上去就象自己在折磨着自己。

First he told me he would put in for me to raffle, and did so, some small matter coming to his lot, he presented it to me.

开头他告诉我他要替我买一张彩票,他果然买了,得到一件小玩意儿,就送给了我。

The heat exchange with the reservoir is good and the temperature difference is only small between the bottom and top of the reservoir.

热储内部的热交换良好,热储顶部和底部的温度差极小。

The little man beside him was bald and rosy-cheeked, with small black eyes and a sensual mouth.

站在他身旁的矮个子是秃顶,两颊红润,一对小而黑的眼睛,一张肉感的嘴。

The desirable features of that project were merely that it would have initiated a small "second front" .

理想计划的特点是立刻开辟一小型的“第二战场”。

Another is the hearing aid, which can be made so small that it can become part of the frame of a pair of spectacles.

另一个例子是助听器,它可以做得非常小,小得可以成为眼镜架的一部分。

His hands were white and small, his frame was fragile, his voice was quiet and his manners were refined.

他长得单薄,一双手白皙而小巧,说起话来细声细气,一副文质彬彬的模样。

A couple of days ago, the policemen yanked the man in on a small charge and began to find out about the jewel robbery.

几天前,警察以轻微罪行逮捕了那个男人并着手就珠宝抢劫案进行调查。

She was a small, plump woman, aging now but with a shiny, warm face, all the features generous.

她的个子不高,体态丰腴,虽然上了年纪,但面色红润,容光焕发。

He swore by the name of God that he couldn't want to let such a small matter come between me and my sleep.

他以上帝的名义发誓,他不想让这样的小事妨碍我睡觉。

The governor continued to smile, but his eyes grew small and serious.

总督仍然微笑着,但是他的眼睛眯了起来,变得严肃了。

He pointed to a large perfect pearl the size of a small walnut that lay apart on a piece of chamois.

他指着一颗单独放在一块鹿皮上的大珠子,这珠子晶莹无瑕,有颗小核桃大小。

They pass through a sphincter at the lower end of the stomach and into the small intestine.

它们通过胃下端的括约肌进入小肠。

Each girl shared a small plot with two or three others, where they grew vegetables and flowers, and kept the weeds at bay.

每三四个女孩分一小块地,负责种蔬菜、栽花和除草。

Because these wavelengths are so small, it is convenient to express them in terms of a small unit of length.

由于这些波长很小,因而用小的长度单位来表示更方便。

In a small hotel or motel, all of these different functions may be handled by one or two people.

在规模不大的旅馆或汽车旅馆,这些工作可能统统由一两个人来做。

I was as much of a nuisance as any small boy.

我小时候象任何一个小男孩那样很讨人嫌。

The tallest buildings in London are small in comparison with New York's skyscrapers.

伦敦最高的建筑物与纽约的摩天大厦一比就相形见绌。

In a way, it was like a school with small classes where students received personal attention they could not have gained elsewhere.

从某种意义上说,它有点象一所分小班上课的学校,学生可以在这儿接受在别处无法得到的个别辅导。

The product had no significant side effects, he continued, and was so safe it would be given to small children.

他接着说,这种药没有什么明显的副作用,非常安全,甚至可以让小孩服用。

A column of smoke is established with a small rocket then photographed to determine movement of the trail.

烟柱是由一个小火箭放出的,然后摄影技求出烟迹的运动。

Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless.

虽然那天深夜浓雾笼罩着整个城市,上半夜则晴空如洗。

"The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see, " the old man said.

“海洋很大,船小,不容易看出来,”老头儿说。

Hundreds of small craft bobbed around the liner as it steamed into the harbour.

班轮驶进港口时,周围的许多小船颠簸起来。

I was delayed by one or two small matters, and then, when I was ready to go, winter arrived and traveling became impossible.

我被一两件小事拖着,然后,当我准备好要走的时候,冬天来了,这令旅行变成了一件不可能的事。

Allen Ezail Iverson, bron in 1975, was one of the top scores in the National Basketball Association(NBA) despite his relatively small size.

阿伦·埃泽尔·艾弗森,出生于1975年,是国际篮球协会(NBA)里的一位头等得分手,尽管相对来说他身材比较矮小。

I was sick a month soon, and then, I moved out of that small window of the temporary, to learn how to stand up in the face of their own.

我病了快一个月,然后,我也搬出了那个临时的小窗,学着如何在站起来,如何在面对自己。

They will be on fourth street again with you, in two small stakes and was not one to let you draw more expensive.

他们会在第四道街上再次加注你,用两个小赌注而不是一个让你的抽牌变得更加昂贵。

This device has the features of easy to operate, low cost and small error. Measurements show that the device is stable and practicable.

该装置具有使用方便、成本低、误差小等特点,经实际测量验证,工作稳定可靠,具有较好的实用价值。

Scientists concluded that such a small ratio was considered good for a woman's health and resulted in high fertility.

科学家总结认为这样的比例对女性健康和生育有利。

As part of her dowry, a woman would make several pairs of shoes as proof of her needlework ability, as well as her small feet.

作为嫁妆的一部分,一个女人会做几双鞋证明她的女红手艺跟小脚一样优秀。

There was a small release of radioactive steam at Three Mile Island in 1979, and there have also been a few releases at Fukushima Daiichi.

1979年三里岛核电站事故中便是有少量带放射性同位素的蒸汽泄露。

With a very small example such as this one, the index can be close to as big as the example as if there were no duplicated words.

使用像本例这样非常小的示例,如果没有重复的单词,则索引的大小会十分接近示例的大小。

Foreigners in Germany, there have been a small upsurge in house, most of the type of real estate investment business.

外国人在德国已经出现了一个买房小高潮,大多数是投资商务型房产。

She had sought to be definite in analyzing the surface ugliness of the small town.

她竭力要弄清楚,这个小镇的外貌为什么会这样丑陋不堪。

In front of him was a small, blue and white tin bowl, one reminiscent of both camping and cantina.

他的面前有一只让人觉着又像野营用的、又像酒馆里的蓝白色的小锡铁皮碗。

The bottom line seems to be that after two or three years, hard disk failure in laptops is pretty common, at least based on my small sample.

似乎结论是笔记本硬盘在两或三年后,出问题是相当常见的,至少根据我的例子来看是这样。

The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.

这场灾难的规模如此之大,令人不禁要问,一些小国真的负担得起救助银行的成本吗?

No, in fact, sexuality is just one very small part of it . . . it's so interesting to see how people latch on to words.

不,事实上,性只是其中很小的一部分……看到大家如此死扣字面意义真是很有意思。

Headsets should be durable, light weight, small, comfortable and the cleaning and maintenance should be easy to manage.

耳麦套件必须结实耐用,轻便,小巧,舒适,易于清洁、养护和管理。

This algorithm has the advantages of fast convergence speed, small number of convergence and easy to get premature convergence.

该算法具有收敛速度快、迭代次数少且不易陷入不成熟收敛等优点。

Instead she was holding a small spade and began to dig into the carpet, pushing it away to each side as if making a furrow to sow seeds.

而是她握着一个小铲子,开始在地毯上挖掘,把它推到两侧,好像犁出一道沟缝去播种。

During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.

二战期间,法国人把这幅画藏在小城镇里,以免落入德国军队之手。

Those who ate two or more eggs a day showed a still higher death risk, but only small number of women fell into that category.

那些每天吃两个或多个鸡蛋的人显示了一种更高的死亡风险,但是仅小部分的妇女归入了那个类别。

We followed her eyes and discovered a small hole in the table cloth.

我们跟着她的眼睛,发现了一个小洞在台布。

As he leans over a small desk crammed into a cabin on board a modified 757, he comes across as just another Washington big shot.

在一架改进过的757飞机上,当他趴在塞进机舱的一张小办公桌时,他看上去似乎是又一个华盛顿大腕。

Just by cutting back on small expenses each week you can save a nice bit of money by the end of the year.

只有每周都减少那些不必要的花销,到年末你会节省相当可观的一笔钱。

The heat exchange with the reservoir is good and the temperature difference is only small between the bottom and top of the reservoir.

热储内部的热交换良好,热储顶部和底部的温度差极小。

Start small, with something that isn't really a big deal, but might help you do something just a little bit better than you do it today.

从一些不是很重要的事情开始,但是有可能能帮你在做事情时一点点地进步。

Spring, it baby born, out of the small head of green in the light of the sun, like emerald sparkling, green green, and very good-looking.

春天,它像刚生出来的小宝宝,探出了绿色的小脑袋,在阳光的照耀下,就像闪闪发光的绿宝石,嫩绿嫩绿的,十分好看。

A German soldier holding a small tree arranged with lighted candles began to walk across the land toward the English lines.

一位德国士兵手持一棵小树,树上整齐地排列着点燃的蜡烛,他越过边界走向英国阵地。

This means that although your peripheral vision might be wide, only a small part of that vista is in sharp focus.

这意味着尽管你的周边视觉可能很广,但只有一小部分远景在精确聚焦内。

Goldfish in the water play in small groups around the moon, Dangqi layers of ripples, as if the moon hide and seek in and water.

水中的金鱼在三五成群地围着月亮嬉戏,荡起一层层波纹,仿佛是在和水中的月亮捉迷藏。

In the past, it was suggested that you make a small partition at the beginning of the disk, to be left unformatted.

以前的方法建议您在磁盘的开始处分出一个较小并且不格式化的分区。

The number of orders is no limit, but at least it provides the best a small cabinet, so you run the freight is more accounting.

定货数量是没有限制的,不过最少的话最好订一个小柜,这样的话对于你来说运费是比较核算的。

"The only way the essay would get the audience it deserved was to publish it as a small book, " he said.

“让这份论文走向它应得的读者的唯一方式就是把它出版成一本小书,”他说。

He never managed diplomatic small-talk, tended to say the wrong thing, and packed his own instant noodles for state trips abroad.

他从未促成过外交会谈,时常说错点话,出外进行国事访问还要自带方便面。

The small children did not know who would fill their stockings.

小孩子们不知道谁将往他们的袜子里塞东西。

How much does a small piece of solar panel cost?

一小块太阳能面板值多少钱?

Google was a massive aircraft carrier, and I was just a small dinghy trying to push it a few degrees North.

Google就像是一艘超级航母,而我只是一个试图把它推到正确方向上的小橡皮艇。

It is usually used for docks of framework type and ships due to the small size of its bottom width.

由于底部宽度尺寸小,一般适用于框架式码头和船舷安装使用。

Once I found a small stick standing upright in one of my traps.

又一次,我发现一根小树枝直直插在捕兽夹里。

It's traditional to send the children home with party bags of small trinkets, but I find the bags are invariably filled with Chinese items.

送小朋友们回家的传统习俗是送小礼物,但我发现派对礼物袋里装的都是中国货。

Small coup: the deviation direction of the front wheel to increase the tire pressure or reduced pressure in another direction.

小妙招:将跑偏方向的前轮调高气压或另一方向的轮胎调低气压。

We rented a small house in Newtown for a year.

我们在新街租了一幢小房子,租期为一年。

It shone in through a small opening and formed a golden staff which stretched across to her skirt.

阳光从一个窟窿眼儿射进屋里,象一条金棒,投到她的裙边上。

With such a small salary, no one likes to labour for the boss.

薪水这么低,谁也不愿为老板努力干活。

With some of his bravest knights King Richard embarked on a small ship and sailed for home.

理查王带领几个最勇敢的骑士搭乘一条小船启程回国。

Basically a scientist, he still kept his hand in with a small laboratory, and attended scientific meetings several times each year.

他原本是个科学家,目前仍常参与一个小实验室的工作,一年当中要参加好几次科学会议。

"Now, " he said, when his hand had dried, "I must eat the small tuna. "

“得”,他把手晒干的时候说,“我非要吃小金枪鱼不可了。”

To count on the small family farm as an important thing in the American future now looks like betting on the wrong horse.

现在把小家庭农场当作美国未来的一件大事,看来是估计错误了。

A small group of party members, who no longer agreed with the party thought, splintered off and formed a new political movement.

一小伙与党的宗旨格格不入的党员分裂出去,成立了一个新的政治团体。

Then she went into the small home park where the quintain was erected.

随后,她又走进竖立起枪靶子的那片宅内的小花园。

The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry.

一些大企业正在把这些小国家榨干。

The trade which employs but a small number of hands, runs most easily into such combinations.

所雇劳动者人数有限的行业,最容易形成这类结合。

Population turnover was small, and people clung through habit to the same physicians they had been doing business with for years.

那个地区的人口流动量很少,居民出于习惯,总是请打了多年交道的医生治病。

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought.

为了获取我立意探求的知识,个人的生死安危又算得了什么。

The investigation of its infinitely small components had to await the development of optical methods and is of relatively recent origin.

要研究其无数小的结构成分,必须有待于光学方法的发展,因而其起始较晚。

The thickness of this film is very small at the point of contact.

这薄膜的厚度在接触点非常小。

The flowers were a small acknowledgement of your kindness.

这些花聊表谢意,感谢你的好心帮助。

However, these bodies sometimes are small and a tight grid of measuring stations is needed to discover them.

不过这类物体有时很小,需要采用密的测网才能发现它们。

If the resistance is small, most of the energy is radiated in the form of electromagnetic waves.

如果这电阻很小,则大部分能量以电磁波形式辐射出去。

Generally one deals only with a small portion of a wavefront.

一般我们只涉及一个波阵面的一小部分。

It reduced Indochina to its proper scale-a small peninsula on a major continent.

它把印度支那还原到它应有的尺度--一个大陆上的不大的半岛。

I wanted to surprise him with a small party with his favorite dinner and some friends of him, which was planned in the evening.

我想在晚上举办一个小型聚会,做一顿他最爱的晚餐,邀请他的一些朋友参加,让他大吃一惊。

M. Morrel paid the expenses of his funeral, and a few small debts the poor old man had contracted.

莫雷尔先生不仅负担了他的全部丧葬费,还把那可怜的老人生前所借的几笔小债也还清了。

Small scale and less staff of the small & medium-sized enterprises make it easy to unify the thinking.

中小企业规模小,企业员工少,易于统一思想。

So the only components we have, really, are the many individual tests, and a small bit of routine for processing.

所以我们真正拥有的组件就是各种测试,再加上一点处理程序。

When it begins to open more small stores in Britain, it will be a sign that the retail giant believes it has learned to be nimble.

当Asda开始在英国开设更多小型超市时,这将表明零售业巨头也学会灵巧一些了。

They're talking of the small island as if they were going to spend their holiday in a paradise on earth.

他们谈论起那小岛,仿佛就要去人间天堂度假一般。

I saw a small clearing of not more than three-fourths of an acre in the heart of this wilderness right in the mountaintop.

在山顶的荒野的中央,我发现了一晓小块不足四分之三英亩大小的开阔地。

On an upper floor he opens the door of a small room containing a bed, a desk, a telephone and a bureau.

在上面的一层楼上,他打开了一间小屋,屋里有一张床,一张书桌,一部电话,一个衣柜。

the perfect meal to eat, the birds When not to use her mother's feathers gently stroked the bird's body, much like a warm small family it!

吃完美餐,鸟妈妈就不时地用她的羽毛轻轻地抚摸着小鸟的身体,多像一个温馨的小家庭呀!

My hometown Linze is known as the "Frontier of small Jiangnan" place, where the growth of a variety of fruit trees.

我的家乡临泽是被誉为“塞上小江南”的地方,这里生长着各种不同的果树。