1. Most roommate conflicts spring from such small, irritating differences rather than from grand disputes over abstract philosophical principles.
    大多数室友的冲突都起因于小小的令人不快的分歧，而不是由抽象的哲学原理上的重大争执引起的。

2. Just think how the past 2,000 years would be different without these "small" big ideas:
    想想吧，要是没有下面这些不起眼的、却又是了不起的想法，过去的两千年会是多么的不同：

3. Children always appreciate small gifts of money.
    孩子们总是喜欢得到一些零花钱。

4. Collecting small items can easily become a mania.
    收集小玩艺儿很容易着迷。

5. But it´s too small for me.
    可是对我来说太小了。

6. Computers will show drivers maps of districts the car is crossing on a small screen in the car.
    电脑会在汽车里的一个小屏幕上向驾驶员显示汽车所经过地区的地图。

7. Not to mention the equally numerous small animals like field mice and voles which you do not see,
    地上有不显眼的无数的老鼠和田鼠之类的小动物，

8. Reb Sussel knew how to butcher meat, so he decided to change his job and opened a small butcher shop.
    莱伯·萨塞尔懂得屠宰，所以他决定改行开一家小肉铺。

9. Our own warm atmosphere and the heat generated by the telescope would make it impossible to detect objects as small as planets.
    地球周围温暖的大气层和望远镜散出的热量使得我们根本不可能找到比行星更小的物体。

10. One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm.
    一天下午，她乘小船从海岸出发，遇上了风暴。