小小的

Perhaps that's the sort of thing that might have been mentioned a bit earlier, in the invitation to this little soiree, for example?

这种事应该稍微提前一点儿告诉我吧？比如说，在邀请我来到这里参加这场小小的晚会之前？

That, too, was a small solace.

这对他来说也是一个小小的安慰。

There are others, who sooth their consciences with small acts of kindness.

还有一些人，用小小的善举来安慰自己的良心。

Bless this little heart,this white soul that has won the kiss of heaven for our earth.

祝福这颗小小的心灵，这个纯洁的灵魂，他为我们的大地，赢得了上天的亲吻。

He caught sight of a sudden, soundless and slight moving of the water.

他看到河水忽然间冒出一个无声的小小的水花。

Next he attempted the tiny front porch, until a howling southeaster drenched the wheel a night-long.

然后他试了试前门那小小的门廊，那兀一场咆哮的东南风又把轮子浸泡了一夜。

Tiny shells spangle the profile of a young Roman woman of the second century A.D.

小小的贝壳装饰着一位公元二世纪的罗马妇女的侧面。

And we know for love to live, there has to be a spark.

我们知道，爱情需要一个小小的火星

It also tells us that we have a lot to learn about how even small sparks work.

这也告诉我们，即使对于小小的电火花，我们仍然有很多需要了解的。

Every day I walked past this spicebush swallowtail caterpillar.It hid inside a rolled-up sassafras leaf;it was just a little green thing at first.

我每天从这只凤蝶蛾毛虫旁边经过，它把自己卷在一棵黄樟树的叶子里，起初还是一条小小的绿虫。

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。