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
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
1.[sing]the ~ of the/sb's back后腰the lower part of the back where it curves in
2.[pl](informal)小件衣服（尤指内衣）small items of clothing, especially underwear
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。
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