Medical experts say small amounts of carbon monoxide over a long period of time can greatly harm an unborn baby.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

So, just, if you can take what I'm saying for a moment right now that in fact this should collapse in this very small time frame, we have to see that there's a problem with one of these two things, either the Coulomb force law or Newtonian mechanics. So, what do you guys think is probably the issue here?

所以如果你们考虑我,开始说的这个塌缩应该,发生在很短的时间里，那么这两者之一就有问题,要么是库伦定律,要么是牛顿力学,你们觉得应该是哪个的问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

It gets worse over time. The disease affects a small area of cells in the middle of the brain.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

A test suite is small enough so that we can test it in a reasonable amount of time.

测试集必须小到我们可以在一个,合理的时间内完成他，但是必须大到。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Study leader Pooja Tandon says even small calorie reductions on a regular basis can prevent weight gain over time.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

So part of it is trying to give yourself some time And I think the other piece is that it can often be very small thing.

所以说，你要给自己一些时间,另外，就是激发你发现灵性的,可能都是些很小的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He pointed. Its exactly in that direction. This time the reporter saw a small thing on the edge of the moving horizon.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

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

It had been the first time people moved beyond their small planet into the huge solar system.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

So, you have to feed the slave all year round to work only a small part of the time, that's not very profitable.

你不得不整年的喂养奴隶,而他们只有少量时间在工作,这是很不划算的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A flat-topped boat called the On-Time Ferry takes people and cars to a nearby small island,Chappaquiddick.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

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

Over long periods of time, these small changes result in the creation of new species.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Every time you hit the enter key in Notepad or in Microsoft Word, small white lie, those two characters end up getting saved in the file.

在Notepad或Microsoft里，每当你敲回车键时，没有恶意哈，这两个字符,都会保存在文档里。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A short time later,her family moved to Eatonville, a small town in central Florida.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

So many of the people we'll talk about, whether it's Bob Fredrickson who we'll talk about in a few minutes, David Cooper whether it's David Cooper we'll talk about, Martin Seligman whether it's Martin Seligman of course, will come there and present to you and you'll be spending quality time in small groups with them.

我们将会谈到的很多人，比如Bob，Fredrickson，过一会我们会谈到他，或者以后会谈到的，当然还有，都会去那里给大家讲座,你将和他们亲密相处。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But small farmers often have a difficult time getting their animals to market.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Well, realize one of the themes in this course and really one of the themes in programming and solving any problem with a machine is going to be really to just take small bites one at a time out of these problems until the end result ultimately is that you've actually bitten off a fairly large fairly interesting problem and in the aggregate, you've actually implemented something pretty sophisticated.

好吧，让我们先想一下这件事带给我们的主题,编程和解决问题的思想,一台机器最开始只会一步一个脚印,沿着要解决的问题向前迈进,直到最终的结果出来,最后你会发现，你已经解决了一个相当大,相当有趣的问题，而这个问题在最初看起来确是相当复杂的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Maurice Sendak was only a small child at the time.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

We've talked about the peak experience I have spent a lot of time in New York City, and even in the small park down the way I can watch and look at a tree.

我们说过我在大峡谷,我常常去，But，we，almost…,纽约，即使在顺路的小公园里,我也可以观赏一棵树。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

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 action means the Yongbyon reactor complex, where the plutonium for North Korea's presumed small arsenal of nuclear weapons was produced, will be without international monitoring for the first time in nearly two years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

So we thought this was the time to actually convene policy makers together with civil society with small communities of people living with HIV, to get together under one roof and start talking what's next.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"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