An up-and-comer who's now a down- and-outer. Do you remember that scene in the back of the car with his brother Charlie a small time racket guy?

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

I work part-time. When the girls were small, I worked from home.

我是做兼职工作。当女儿还小的时候，我在家里工作。

妈妈亲手做的味道 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sometimes, sciencecan seem overwhelming. There are complicated concepts, unimaginably large - or small - objects, and vast distances that most people have a hard time understanding.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

That - irreversible changes happen all the time too but here I'm talking about very subtle small changes where you're changing the structure of the protein but only a little bit such that it can go back.

这种不可逆的改变时时刻刻都在发生,但我在这里想讲的是,对蛋白质结构进行微小的改变,小到这种改变是可逆的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Since the space was small and climate-controlled, staffers allowed only small groups in for a few minutes at a time, which was enough to cure most people's olfactory curiosity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

"The one-time cost of our system which consists of a small solar panel, a little motorcycle-sized battery and a couple of LED lamps, is less than one hundred dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"The detainees were kept naked for weeks, months at a time - kept in very small cells, whose temperatures were kept artificially low, sometimes to the extent that the naked detainees, as one official said,seemed to turn blue,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"And what I don't want to hear is when they're spending that kind of money on their shareholders and spending that kind of money on TV advertising that they're nickel-and-diming fishermen or small businesses here in the Gulf who are having a hard time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10