1. If you compare it to a mountain, however, the large tree seems small.
    可是将树和山相比，大树就显得小了。

2. In other words, things in nature are large or small, new or old, only in accordance with the measures and the comparisons involved.
    换言之，自然界的事物是大是小，是新是旧，仅仅是根据其所涉及的标准和参照而言的。

3. Imagine a small plastic card that holds all manner of information about you on a tiny memory chip (芯片):
    设想一下一张小小的塑料卡，在微小的记忆芯片上存有关于你的所有信息：

4. It's the daily succession of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us.
    但是每日不断发生的琐碎抱怨，看到的和想到的琐事，却积在那儿，塞满了我们的心。

5. It is small wonder that the prospect of growing old is frightening to women.
    难怪进入老年的前景对于女人来说是那么可怕。

6. For small pieces of weather----and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards----any prediction deteriorates rapidly.
    对于小片的恶劣天气 -- 对一个全球性的气象预报员来说，"小"可以意味着雷暴雨和暴风雪 -- 任何预测的质量会很快下降。

7. For most of them, fifty pence is a small price to pay for a nice big bar of chocolate.
    对大部分孩子来说，用50便士来买一大块好的巧克力，是算不了什么的。

8. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.
    那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，

9. For across the room, a small gun in his hand, stood a man.
    屋子的另一边站着一个男人，手里握着一支小手枪。