The first thing viewers usually say when they see me in the flesh is "You're smaller than you look on TV."

观众见到我本人时常说的第一句话往往是“你比在电视上看上去矮小一些”。

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Sharks are smaller than whales.

鲨鱼比鲸鱼小。

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My dog is smaller than yours.

我的狗比你的小。

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The experts agree with the old saying that you should never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

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One of the main difference is is that when you're talking about multi-electron orbitals, they're actually smaller than the corresponding orbital for the hydrogen atom.

其中最主要的区别之一,是当你讨论多电子轨道时,它们实际上，要比对应的氢原子轨道,要小一些。

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Steroids are small molecules - much smaller than proteins - smaller molecules that tend to be hydrophobic or lipid soluble.

类固醇是小分子物质,比蛋白质小得多,这类小分子是非水溶性的,或者说是脂溶性的

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In some countries if not in all, organic farms tend to be smaller than their conventional neighbours.

BBC: Food: Organic growth?

Overall the size of the economy as a whole remains 2.6% smaller than its pre-recession peak.

BBC: UK economy avoids triple-dip recession

Smaller notebook computers, now euphemistically called " ultrabooks ", were thinner and smaller than ever.

CNN: How the Consumer Electronics Show lost its spark