The lamb was a puny little thing.

羊羔瘦小孱弱。

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Like the early Apple II of Mr. Jobs, it is too puny for many tasks, including sequencing the entire genome of a person.

像早期的苹果II乔布斯，实在是太对许多任务，包括测序一个人的整个基因组微不足道。

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They die young, populating a crowded universe with relatively puny black holes.

在一个拥挤的，充满着相对弱小的黑洞的宇宙中，他们往往很早就衰亡了。

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From 1990 to date, the two decades of explosive growth since the effective launch of the Internet as we know it, Web traffic grew a staggering one-million-fold from a puny 48 terabytes a year (a few desktops now contain that much data) to an astronomical 60 exabytes.

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How can such a puny manufacturing base ever aspire to close such a gaping deficit?

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But only the United Arab Emirates, with a relatively puny 2.4 million barrels a day, are on the right side of the choke point: on the wrong side are Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq and Iran.

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