"There are concerns in most O.E.C.D.countries that the number of nurses is too small to respond to the demand.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

As we said, Newtonian mechanics does work in most cases, it does work when we're discussing things that we can see, it does work even on things that are too small to measure.

在大部分情况下都适用,对我们可以看到的东西,它都能适用，甚至对一些小到,无法测量的东西它也可以适用。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

that these questions would come to the Council my brain is actually too small to process such questions.

这些问题都会摆在委员会面前,我的头脑实际上太小，因而无法思考这些问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Critics of the idea say the living areas in submarines are too small and narrow for men and women to serve together.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Well, the figure I saw last was a number too small to be mentioned; I mean, to say you just can't really say how much it is, but all right, two percent.

这个数字简直,小的可忽略了,我的意思是说你实在说不出精确地数字,但实际上只有2%左右

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Astronomers say it was probably less than one kilometer in size too small to see from Earth.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

And that idea was, we make a guess in the middle, we test it so this is kind of a guess and check, and if the answer was too big, then we knew that we should be looking over here. If it was too small, we knew we should be looking over here, and then we would repeat.

这些有理数是有序排列的,然后我们的想法是,首先在中间取个数作为猜想数，然后对这个猜想数进行验证，如果由猜想数得到的答案太大,我们知道应该跳过，比猜想数大的那个区间，如果太小的话。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Or,he said human DNA really was present in the bone, but the bone was too small or low-quality to repeat the first results.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

So Athens was the polis for Attica, but it was also the polis for all of Attica, all that region around Athens, including villages and farms and other small towns too.

所以雅典是阿提卡地区的城镇，是整个阿提卡地区的城镇，雅典周围的所有地区，包括村庄，农田及其他小镇都属于它。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Critics considered an earlier measure too small to fight the recession in Europe's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

But you might say just as Machiavelli broke with the dominant model of Christian universalism, so too did he reject the ancient model of the small, autonomous republican state.

但各位也可读到,当马奇亚维利打破,处于优势之基督普遍主义模式的同时，他也拒绝了,古代模式的，小型自治共和国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Each year millions of babies are born too soon and too small.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

And they were republicans, small r, too.

他们是共和党人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But they were too small and too weak to continue the fight.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Maybe it's a tradition, maybe it's to keep the value kind of in a familiar range or a small-- they don't want them to get too expensive because people can't-- small investors can't afford them anymore.

也许是传统使然,也许是为了将价值维持在一个惯常的小区间内,他们不想让价格升得太高,因为人们,小投资者无法承担过高价格

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Without silver,they said, the country's money supply would be too small.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

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

His clothes were too small for him, but they were clean.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

So let`s look what we`ll have if go to the graphic version We have the graphic version And you have all the pictures, all the beautiful graphics and links Which you probably would not be able to use if you have a vision of pyramids or were blind Actually the text is very small, too.

现在让我们看看进入图片版会看到什么,现在进入图片版,可以看到所有的图片，漂亮的图像和链接,可能戴上3D眼镜,或者是盲人的话就看不到了,但文本字号实际上太小了。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The Union navy was too small for the job.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

They did this because they didn't want the upper-class in Rome, who were the elite, they didn't want any one household, or any small group of households, to become too powerful.

因为他们不想罗马的上层阶级，即精英阶层，一户独大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He says studies on the effectiveness of nurse practitioners have been too small to be conclusive.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Republicans say the budget is too big and that the proposed tax increase on the wealthy would hurt small businesses.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Too many of his small force would be lost if he tried to fire these guns.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Lettuce seeds are small, so do not place them too deep in the ground.

VOA: special.2009.04.28

Also,banks generally do not provide very small loans because administrative costs are too high.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Small businessmen charged that trusts were too powerful.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

And there are still too many successful small businesses that want to expand further and hire more but just do not have the capital to do it."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

(Speaking in French) Boisserie argues the government is focusing too narrowly on the elite grandes ecoles, which account for just a small slice of French university graduates.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The Obama administration has been especially attuned to criticism that it is not doing enough for small business, and focusing too much on helping big corporations and financial firms.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16