smallness

英

美

网络  小性; 小气; 微小性; 微小

BNC.21133 / COCA.24638

英英释义

noun

• lack of generosity in trifling matters
  Synonym:pettinesslittleness
• the property of having relatively little strength or vigor
  1. the smallness of her voice
  Synonym:littleness
• the property of having a relatively small size
  Synonym:littleness
• the property of being a relatively small amount
  1. he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes

双语例句

• The chief proof of a man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
  一个人真正伟大的主要证明在于认识到自己的渺小。
• A word that is formed with a suffix ( such as-let or-kin) to indicate smallness.
  加后缀形成的单词表示小（例如let或kin）。
• We realize our own weakness, our smallness, our mortality.
  我们看到了自己的脆弱，渺小和卑微。
• The so-called bigness and smallness, strength and weakness often depend on people's sense and habits.
  所谓大与小，强与弱，很多时候都是依照人们的感官和习惯定论的。
• I think this sense of my own smallness is the best I have had to offer at this and many subsequent deathbeds.
  我想，我的这种自觉渺小的感觉是我在这个以及后来的病危病人床前我能提供的最好的东西。
• You are trying to return to the other person their greatness, instead of focusing on their smallness.
  你尝试把别人自己的伟大找还给他们，而不是关注于他们的渺小。
• With smallness of laser beam, work piece will not suffer any mechanical impact and damage in the laser engraving process.
  激光束很细，加工过程为非接触加工，无污染、不损坏产品、标记质量好。
• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
  人之所以独立，不是因为他家财万贯，也不是因为他需求很少。
• During the Anti-Japanese war, the military industry personnel of the base of Jin-Ji-Yu had a difficult development from smallness, simple to bigness and complexity.
  抗战时期，晋冀豫根据地的军事工业经历了一个从无到有、由小到大、先修后造、从简单到复杂的发展过程。
• Debate continues as to whether the smallness of the number demonstrates that railways were not important to US economic development, or just the silliness of attempting that type of calculation at all; I incline towards the latter view.
  争论仍在继续：到底是数据的渺小表明铁路对美国经济发展不重要，还是这种计算根本就是愚蠢的？我倾向于后一种观点。