smallness

英

美

网络  小性; 小气; 微小性; 微小

BNC.21133 / COCA.24638

英英释义

noun

• lack of generosity in trifling matters
  Synonym:pettinesslittleness
• the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
  1. the smallness of her voice
  Synonym:littleness
• the property of having a relatively small size
  Synonym:littleness
• the property of being a relatively small amount
  1. he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes

双语例句

• We realize our own weakness, our smallness, our mortality.
  我们看到了自己的脆弱，渺小和卑微。
• Debate continues as to whether the smallness of the number demonstrates that railways were not important to US economic development, or just the silliness of attempting that type of calculation at all; I incline towards the latter view.
  争论仍在继续：到底是数据的渺小表明铁路对美国经济发展不重要，还是这种计算根本就是愚蠢的？我倾向于后一种观点。
• Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither smallness nor meanness.
  好了，他的结论是自己这对眼睛是诚恳的，其中没有小气和卑劣。
• Because only you have arrived at there and enjoyed it, you can touch the magic of the creation, the broadness of the earth and smallness of us.
  因为只有到了这里，你才会感到造物的神奇，天地的广阔和自我的渺小。
• A word that is formed with a suffix ( such as-let or-kin) to indicate smallness.
  加后缀形成的单词表示小（例如let或kin）。
• But the smallness of the exception made the mystery.
  可是这个例外实在少见，这就令人不解了。
• The more we globetrot, the more aware we are of the smallness of the world.
  我们周游世界越多，越觉得世界渺小。
• Excessive clearance will influence perforating effect while over smallness may lead to engineering accident easily.
  射孔枪与套管之间的间隙过大会影响射孔效果，太小容易出现工程事故。
• When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.
  这种可怜的小把戏，一旦成了人，几乎总要遭受社会秩序这个磨盘的碾压，但是，只要他们还是孩子，个儿小，就可以逃过。
• I think this sense of my own smallness is the best I have had to offer at this and many subsequent deathbeds.
  我想，我的这种自觉渺小的感觉是我在这个以及后来的病危病人床前我能提供的最好的东西。