1. Mr.Lin: My wife hopes to open a small handicraft store. 林先生:我的妻子希望开一家小的手工艺品店,
2. Sixpence is a small price to pay for a satisfying bar of chocolate. 用六便士买一条令人满意的巧克力糖,是算不了什么的。
3. Mrs. Smith´s kitchen is small. 史密斯夫人的厨房很小。
4. Millions of Mexico City´s people live in small shanties without running water or electricity. 几百万墨西哥城的居民住在没有自来水和电的简陋的棚屋里。
5. Most women wear shoes that fit poorly, usually ones that are too small, which adds pain to high-heel hell (痛苦). 大多数女人穿的鞋子都不合脚,通常是鞋子太小,这就增加了穿高跟鞋引起的疼痛。
6. Mr. Torres works by himself in a small, dark room that smells of chemicals. 多里斯先生单独在一间充满化学药品味、又小又暗的房间里工作。
7. 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。
8. James Cameron of the London News Chronicle, who was in China in 1954, reported even then the pace of building was unbelievable; how four new hospitals, six factories, and eleven full-scale blocks, had been laid out, started and completed in a matter 一九五四年访问中国的伦敦《新闻纪事报》记者詹姆斯·卡麦隆报导说,当时建设速度之快是难以令人置信的:四家医院,六座工厂和十一个完整的街区仅在数周之内就设计、建造并完工了。
9. 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:
10. Green and white taxis are a step down the scale, but still have meters. 绿白相间的就低一个档次,但也有计程器。