这不是个小数目。
一小瓶啤酒，有什么牌子呢？
艺术是不足挂齿的。
Even the dollar's recent drop is small beer.
甚至美元在近期贬值也是微不足道的。
A small beer would be better, not black beer.
一小杯啤酒就好了，不要黑啤酒。
One small beer, and chicken basket. Just a minute, please.
一小瓶啤酒，篮装鸡肉，请等一会儿。
He thought he's wonderful, but he's really rather small beer.
他自以为了不起，其实算不了什么。
The actual demands set out in the document are small beer indeed.
文件中陈述的实际要求确实是无关紧要的。
One unit is roughly equivalent to a glass of wine or a small beer.
一个单位的酒精粗略地等于一杯葡萄酒或一杯淡啤酒。
That grant was pretty small beer, we shall need a lot more money.
这点补助金是杯水车薪，我们需要的钱远比这些多。
Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.
和她曾经享有的名气相比，这样的角色真的算不了什么。
He thinks he's a mainstay of the company, but he's really rather small beer.
自以为是公司的台柱，但事实上他是个微不足道的人。
Ever since he won in the competition, John has thought on small beer of himself.
自竞赛中获胜以来，约翰便自命不凡起来了。
She thinks small beer of painters, …-Well, we don't think small beer of ourselves.
她瞧不起画家……——不过，我们倒不小看自己。
Now, says one Bank economist privately, Doha could mean only "small beer" for the poor.
一位银行经济学家私下透露，现在的多哈谈判对穷人来讲意义不大。
Small beer compared with the cataclysm of a year ago-but enough to temper the holiday cheer.
这些同一年前的重大变动相比不值一提，但却足够压抑节日快乐心情的了。
I've got 60 shares in the company, but that's small beer compared with my father's thousands.
我在该公司有60股，但与我父亲的数千股相比就微不足道了。
We had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night, porridge and small beer was my uncle's diet.
中午吃的又是冷粥，晚上才有热粥吃，我伯伯的食谱就是粥和一点啤酒。
, AOL and other providers of web-mail accounts do place advertisements on their web-mail offerings, but this is small beer.
,AOL和其它电子邮件账户服务提供商的确都在他们提供网络邮件的网页上安放了广告，但这只是很少的一杯羹。
So, in the great scheme of the mathematical universe, the Numbers being bandied about over the last few weeks are pretty small beer.
因此，在数学宇宙那浩瀚无边的海洋里，最近几周被信手拈来脱口而出的那些数字简直就是小巫见大巫，微不足道了。
Art is small beer. The really serious things in life are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite, and loving one's neighbour.
艺术是不足挂齿的。生活中真正要紧的事情一是自食其力、不做寄生虫，一是爱人如己。
A tiny by-election for the state assembly PAS already dominates is ordinarily small beer (or would be, if PAS allowed such a beverage, which it does not).
州议会中，PAS已然处于支配地位，赢下区区一个递补选举，可谓小菜一碟（更确切地说，如果PAS承认有这么一“菜”，将是小菜一碟——但是他们不承认）。
His account goes on to explain surprisingly recognisable dose instructions, but less conventional means to dissolve the powder recommending it be dissolved in small beer and such like '.
接下来的记录中他对药物剂量作了说明，但这种粉末不能容于通常的溶剂，因此他推荐用啤酒或类似的溶剂溶解它们。
Industry analysts reckon that, at maximum capacity, tidal power could generate 13 gigawatts nationwide, small beer compared with the 35 gigawatts of wind generation that already exists.
产业分析师估计，潮汐能源最多能产13万千瓦的电量，相比已有风力发电的35万千瓦逊色不少。
Industry analysts reckon that, at maximum capacity, tidal power could generate 13 gigawatts nationwide, small beer compared with the 35 gigawatts of wind generation that already exists.
产业分析师估计，潮汐能源最多能产13万千瓦的电量，相比已有风力发电的35万千瓦逊色不少。
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