| 单词 | small |
| 释义 | small (smɔːl ) Word forms: smaller , smallest 1. adjective A1 A small person, thing, or amount of something is not large in physical size. She is small for her age. [+ for] The window was far too small for him to get through. Next door to the garage is a small orchard area. Stick them on using a small amount of glue. Synonyms: little, minute, tiny, slight smallness uncountable noun Amy had not mentioned the smallness and bareness of Luis's home. [+ of] 2. adjective A1 A small group or quantity consists of only a few people or things. A small group of students meets regularly to learn Japanese. Guns continued to be produced in small numbers. 3. adjective A1 A small child is a very young child. I have a wife and two small children. What were you like when you were small? Synonyms: young, little, growing up, junior 4. adjective A2 You use small to describe something that is not significant or great in degree. It's quite easy to make quite small changes to the way that you work. No detail was too small to escape her attention. He believes this to be a relatively small problem. Synonyms: unimportant, minor, trivial, insignificant 5. adjective Small businesses or companies employ a small number of people and do business with a small number of clients. ...shops, restaurants and other small businesses. Tool companies here are generally small. Synonyms: modest, small-scale, humble, unpretentious 6. graded adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If someone speaks in a small voice, they speak in a quiet, high voice because they are frightened or ashamed. 'I'm scared,' she said in a very small voice. 7. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If someone makes you look or feel small, they make you look or feel stupid or ashamed. This may just be another of her schemes to make me look small. When your children misbehave tell them without making them feel small. Synonyms: foolish, uncomfortable, humiliated, crushed 8. singular noun The small of your back is the bottom part of your back that curves in slightly. Place your hands on the small of your back and breathe in. [+ of] 9. See also smalls 10. the small hours phrase If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight. Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning. 11. small wonder phrase If you say 'no wonder', 'little wonder', or 'small wonder', you mean that something is not surprising. No wonder my brother wasn't feeling well. Under such circumstances, it is little wonder that they experience difficulties. Small wonder that he decided to take no part in the debate. Quotations: Small is beautifultitle of book The best things come in small packages Idioms: a small fortune a very large amount of money For almost two years, Hawkins made a small fortune running a drugstore. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a big fish in a small pond one of the most important and influential people in a small organization or social group. In American English, you can also talk about a big frog in a small pond. In Rhodesia I was a big fish in a small pond. But here there'd be many lean years before I built up a reputation. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers small beer [British] something that is not important when compared with another thing Today's stories seemed to be small beer compared to the momentous events of even a few years ago,. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers small potatoes something that is not important or significant While a total tour attendance of around 20,000 is small potatoes by British standards, it is very big in this country. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the small print or the fine print the part of a contract, agreement, or advertisement which contains important legal information, often in very small writing Patients who thought they were fully covered are being hit by huge bills because they did not read the small print on their insurance forms. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers make someone feel small or make someone look small to deliberately say or do something which makes someone look or feel stupid, especially in front of other people. He made me feel small, like an idiot. I could see he was going to do whatever he could to make me look small. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers it's a small world or small world said to express your surprise when you unexpectedly meet someone you know in an unusual place I'm only just recovering from the surprise of running into you like this. Small world. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: small slice Two large, grilled mushrooms, two poached eggs and a small slice of granary or wholemeal toast. The Sun Or maybe have a small slice of cake, or take some home to enjoy later. Times, Sunday Times Carbohydrate: 1 small slice of bread, 3 tbsp pasta/rice, 1 fistsized potato. The Sun It mediates between you and private sellers, taking a small slice as its fee (0.5% on 400 or more). Times, Sunday Times The other semi-final also had its own small slice of piquancy attached to it. Times, Sunday Times The traffic thinned as they gained the autostrada, eventually turning off and making for a small village. A SONG AT TWILIGHT He did his national service, working as an army medic in a small village. Times, Sunday Times (2009) In Italy, he lives alone in the small village of cobbled streets and prying eyes. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The Valkyr swung leisurely at anchor about two hundred meters from the seaway that fronted a small village. CORMORANT (2003) That hat could shelter a small village from a monsoon. The Sun (2011) Translations: Chinese: 小的 Japanese: 小さい |
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