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

• Within you is the heart to fell compassion as well as the smallness to be arrogant.
  在你的心中既有同情怜悯的胸怀，也有傲慢自大的狭隘。
• I was surprised at the smallness of his house.
  他的房子那么小，我感到奇怪。
• 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）。
• 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。
• Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither smallness nor meanness.
  好了，他的结论是自己这对眼睛是诚恳的，其中没有小气和卑劣。
• We realize our own weakness, our smallness, our mortality.
  我们看到了自己的脆弱，渺小和卑微。
• Moreover, they had no understanding of their own weaknesses ( i.e., lack of experience and smallness of forces).
  另一方面，对自己的弱点（没有经验，力量弱小），也不了解。
• When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.
  这种可怜的小把戏，一旦成了人，几乎总要遭受社会秩序这个磨盘的碾压，但是，只要他们还是孩子，个儿小，就可以逃过。
• The next really important thing is the smallness of Judea.
  还有一点很重要，就是朱迪亚的渺小性。
• 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。