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

• 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。
• Smallness brings its own challenges and vulnerabilities.
  其规模之小给自身带来了挑战和劣势。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was surprised at the smallness of his house.
  他的房子那么小，我感到奇怪。
• The so-called bigness and smallness, strength and weakness often depend on people's sense and habits.
  所谓大与小，强与弱，很多时候都是依照人们的感官和习惯定论的。
• We realize our own weakness, our smallness, our mortality.
  我们看到了自己的脆弱，渺小和卑微。