The Tea Party movement of libertarians and conservatives, who promote lower taxes and smaller government, has opened many races.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

The polis is natural in the sense that it has grown out of smaller and lesser forms of human association.

城邦是自然的演变,因为它源自,较小单位形式的人类结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mr.Talabani,who is an ethnic Kurd, and whose Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) is the smaller of Kurdistan's two major parties, has been mediating between other Kurdish leaders to put an end to the terror activities of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK), which have long angered Ankara.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

So specifically, what we're asking here is as we go across the periodic table, we want to consider which has the smaller ionization energy.

具体地说，我们这里要问的是,从周期表来看，你认为,哪一个元素的电离能更低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Norway has a much smaller population than the UK and they have a lot of oil up there in the North Sea.

挪威的人口比英国的要少得多,而且他们在北海拥有大量的石油。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It looks a little something like that, and the screen doesn't quite do it justice here, Z but there's two alphabets; A through Z, and then A through Z, -- but the inner A through Z is on a small -- it has a smaller diameter; so it's a ring of letters.

它看起就像那样的东西，那个画面做的不是这么公正，这里有两个字母表，A到Z，然后A到，但是戒指内部的A到Z是在一个小直径的上面-,它有一个小的直径，所以它是一个有字母的戒指。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He has it exactly right. OK? Is this smaller than that? No. Now that's a slight lie.

不，这是一个小谎言，抱歉,是一个小错误，如果我要这么说。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选