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

• 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。
• You are trying to return to the other person their greatness, instead of focusing on their smallness.
  你尝试把别人自己的伟大找还给他们，而不是关注于他们的渺小。
• 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）。
• I was surprised at the smallness of his house.
  他的房子那么小，我感到奇怪。
• 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。
• The advantages: simple structure, smallness and skillfulness and high sensitivity.
  优点在于：结构简单、小巧、灵敏度高。
• Within you is the heart to fell compassion as well as the smallness to be arrogant.
  在你的心中既有同情怜悯的胸怀，也有傲慢自大的狭隘。
• 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。
• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
  人之所以独立，不是因为他家财万贯，也不是因为他需求很少。
• 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。