小小的

This is like to signify that it was used, but it also creates a tiny rest for the toothpick.

这就像，以表明它使用，但也创造了一个小小的牙签休息。

It was a comfortable little corner in our backyard, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the southerly breeze coming from the mangrove bushes afar, as well as the shadow of the silk tree, provided a small radius of cool air in the backyard that was literally scorched by the sun.

虽然阳光沃热着整个后花园，但从远方红树林吹来的习习南风和合欢树枝叶投下的斑驳疏影，使这方小小的角落冬暖夏凉，舒适宜人。

He had small, watery eyes, a pointed nose, and wore an unpleasant simper.

他有一双小小的，水汪汪的眼睛，尖尖的鼻子，带着明显不自然的假笑。

In short, I went on thus for a long time, faithfully minding my business, till it became more and more evident that my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowance.

简单他说，我这样子干了很久，我忠心耿耿地管理我的这些事，直到后来越来越明白了，市民们是不愿意把我包括在公职人员的名单之内，也不愿意给我一笔小小的薪俸，让我有个挂名职务的。

In this sky-blue planet, we have colorful life.

在这蔚蓝色的星球上，小小的生命在活动着，有各自的喜怒哀乐，和丰富多彩的每一天。

With a little statistical sleight of hand they can make thing look all right.

只要在统计上耍些小小的花招，他们就能瞒天过海。

With a little statistical sleight of hand they could make things look all right.

只要在统计上耍些小小的花招，他们就能瞒天过海。

It's just a slight problem.

这只不过是个小小的问题。

There's a slight chance..

有一个小小的机会

I think he was slightly better than last year.

我觉得他比去年有了小小的进步。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。