1. Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.
    就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。

2. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota.
    这户人家住在南达科他州一个人口为23，000 的小镇上，镇名为阿拜丁。

3. The place consisted of a straggling unmade road which was lined on either side by small houses.
    这儿有一条未经修筑的弯弯曲曲的道路，路两边排列着一些矮小的农舍。

4. Though these large machines still exist, many of their functions have been taken over by small powerful personal computers, commonly known as PCs.
    虽然这种大计算机仍然存在，但它们的许多功能已被体积小但功能齐全的个人电脑--即我们常说的PC机--所代替了。

5. This ran on an ´operating system´ called DOS, produced by a then small company named Microsoft.
    这种电脑采用了一种被称为磁盘操作系统（DOS）的工作程序，而这种程序是由当时规模不大的微软公司生产的。

6. This is a major achievement because, in relative terms, planets are very small and do not emit light.
    这是一个重要的成就，因为相对来说，行星很小，而且也不发光。

7. The ´taxi´ is a small Swiss aeroplane called a ´Pilatus Porter´.
    这辆"出租汽车"是一架小型瑞士飞机，叫"皮勒特斯.波特"号。

8. The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the park near my home.
    威尔河是横穿过我家附近公园的一条小河。

9. The woman first bought a few small articles.
    这位妇女先是买了几样小商品。

10. To make matters worse, the room is rather small, so I have temporarily put my books on the floor.
    更糟糕的是房间还非常小，所以我暂时把书放在了地板上。