四级A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

只有极少数人能够记住他们生活中的几乎每一个细节。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

尽管如此，琼斯在能够进入更多精英大学的第一代学生中只占一小部分，这些大学通常以丰厚的经济资助和第一代学生的高毕业率而闻名。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

但好消息是，关于家里的颜色，你实际上只需要做三种决定：小决定、中决定和大决定。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road.

埃勒斯想起了他看到的那只在路边颤抖的小狗。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

考研However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.

然而，这个数字仍然很小：2010年，在全球发表的10万篇社会科学论文中，约有1600篇包含了这些关键词之一。

2013年考研阅读原文

四级Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career.

只有少数本科生会继续学业。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级"For all the anxiety the essay causes," says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, "it's a very small piece of the puzzle.

宾夕法尼亚州默塞斯堡学院的比尔·麦克林蒂克说：“尽管这篇文章引起了人们的焦虑，但它只是谜题中的一小部分。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.

加速的速度，向市中心的转移，对小城市的新关注，不断增长的需求，人们没有私家车也能生活。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

事实上，最近的其他研究发现，美国历史上从未有过如此小比例的年轻人寻求或接受当地民间组织的领导角色。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( ' , trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity ( ' , 联 系 ) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( ' , the latter being one of the most common programs for students).

学生们被安排在有辅导员的小组中（’，在校园里接受过培训的高年级学生）；他们具有文化和种族亲和力（“，联 系 ) 团体、辅导中心和学校也有专门针对第一代学生的暑期定向课程（后者是学生最常见的课程之一）。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级CubeSat researchers suggest that now's the time to ponder unexpected and unintended possible consequences of more people than ever having access to their own small slice of space.

CubeSat的研究人员认为，现在是时候考虑一下比以往任何时候都更多的人能够进入他们自己的一小块空间所带来的意想不到的后果了。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Students are placed in small groups with counselors trained seniors on campus; they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity(联系) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students.

学生被分成小组，辅导员在校园里培训高年级学生；他们有机会获得文化和种族亲和力(联系) 团体、辅导中心和学校也有专门针对第一代学生的暑期培训。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

根据康奈尔大学食品和品牌实验室的一项新研究，像麦当劳快乐餐中的玩具这样的小的非食品奖励会刺激大脑中与食物相同的奖励中心。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

可再生能源只占全球一次能源消费的一小部分，而化石燃料仍占主导地位——煤炭和石油各占30%，天然气占25%。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

这是著名的引文索引，也就是说一篇论文在科学文献中被引用的次数，假设一篇重要的论文被引用的次数比一篇小论文要多。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

高考It is important to remember that success is a sum of small efforts made each day and often takes years of achieve.

重要的是要记住，成功是每天付出的小小努力的总和，往往需要数年才能实现。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

四级Nadeau is part of a small revolution developing across California.

纳多是加利福尼亚州一场小型革命的一部分。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world.

最近出现了一些反对者，从微软和亚马逊等技术巨头的竞争对手，到代表世界各地作家和出版商的小型机构。

2011年12月阅读原文

高考This small act will let your neighbors know that you care about the area.

这个小动作会让你的邻居知道你关心这个地区。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee.

该联盟谈判委员会成员、配音演员克里斯平·弗里曼（Crispin Freeman）表示：“引发这一次要补偿问题的游戏数量非常少。”。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (从事自由职业的) perfor

“这是一个非常少的游戏，将触发这一次要的赔偿问题，”声音演员克里斯平弗里曼说，谁是工会的谈判委员会成员这是自由职业者意义的一个重要方面(从事自由职业的) 性能

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

但有趣的是，我们想知道，我们每周看到的无压力、幸福感增强的父母形象是否在某种小的、潜意识的方式上导致了我们对实际体验的不满，就像我们中的一小部分人希望得到“瑞秋”可能会让我们看起来有点像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一样。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

在纽约市大多数无家可归的花园里，植物的实际种植是不可行的，但即便如此，这些构图似乎也常常表现出一种尝试，即材料的安排、色彩的安排、小水池、花瓣或树叶以及填充动物的频繁出现。

2013年考研翻译原文

考研But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of

但有趣的是，我们想知道，我们每周看到的无压力、幸福感增强的父母形象是否在某种小的、潜意识的方式上导致了我们自己对实际经历的不满，就像我们的一小部分人一样

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.

在其他因素相同的情况下，一个人如果对自己将要搬到的地方有所投入并有时间适应，那么他在养老院的表现可能与在小型安老院的表现一样好。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在零食中放一个小奖品来游戏化零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头（“，巨头) 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，在工厂地板上写下上一班生产的钢材吨数，从而激励下一班工人击败上一班。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

鲁宾诺夫说，为这一人群中的一小部分人提供这些机会的不仅仅是那些有选择的精英院校。他还补充说，大多数第一代大学生倾向于选择在线课程、两年制大学和通勤州立学校。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

近年来，许多中等城市开始采取中间路线，将大城市的兴奋和机遇与小城市午夜后的宁静结合起来。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考Advantages small talk can help people form new friendships.

闲聊可以帮助人们建立新的友谊。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 任务型读写 原文

高考Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.

小农可能比大农获得一些优势。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

考研Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

即使在广泛使用的社交媒体出现之后，仍然存在一个金字塔式的生产，只有少数人上传材料，一个稍大的群体评论或修改该内容，还有很大一部分剩余内容可供消费。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

在电视互动广告上的花费仍然很少。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

去年夏天，马萨诸塞州草食牛肉倡导者约翰·史密斯（John Smith）推出了“大图牛肉”（Big Picture beef），这是一个由新英格兰和纽约的小型草食牛肉农场组成的网络，预计今年将向市场推出125家生产商的2500头牛。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

在一个案例中，许多研究人员在洪都拉斯古玛雅城市科潘周围工作，通过使用航空照片和徒步调查，找到了数百个小村庄和个人住宅。

2014年考研阅读原文

四级They can only afford small apartments.

他们只能买得起小公寓。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

在他因背部不适而被判残疾后，他在乡下买了一个小农场，刚好够养家糊口。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

在一个小镇住了十年后，我无法想象再住在一个小镇上。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

四级So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.

因此，日落后的小晚餐变成了一天中的大餐，是全家唯一有机会聚在一起的晚餐。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.

此后，少数人离开非洲，移居世界其他地区。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

几十年来，许多中小型城市的市中心在下班后被居住在郊区的工人遗弃。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考Soon afterwards, Helene and diana changed the sandwich shop into a small vietnamese restaurant.

不久之后，海伦和戴安娜把三明治店改成了一家越南小餐馆。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

把像谷歌这样的公司拆分成五个小公司不会停止自我改造：随着时间的推移，其中一个公司会再次变得伟大。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级The small paper is successful again.

这篇小论文又成功了。

2013年6月听力原文

高考Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

积极的野火控制使得加利福尼亚州的森林里挤满了小树，小树与大树争夺资源。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

几年前，田纳西州的一位年轻农民乔纳森·迪辛格（Jonathan Dysinger）利用当地一家慢钱组织的小额贷款开发了一种工具。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

三周前，我目睹了在这里以西几英里处发生的一场小灾难。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《重新想象生活》中写道。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

几年前持有少量毒品的女性是否应该永久无法获得护士执照？这些法律也起到了反作用，因为它们使有犯罪记录的人更难找到住房或工作，这是减少倒退的两个关键因素。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago.

几年前，他在密歇根州拥有一家小型零售企业。

2013年6月听力原文

四级"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

“事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，”芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《生活重新想象》中写道。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

多年前拥有少量药物的女性是否应该永久无法获得护士执照？

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

但在农业领域，小农可以从主要参与者中获益。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems (生态系统), small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys.

通过与客户直接联系，以及通过快速响应市场和生态系统的变化(生态系统), 小农场主可以比大农场主领先一步。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness.

当我们降落到蓝天和温暖的空气中时，我发出了一个小小的感恩祈祷。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

虽然塑料袋看起来很难看，但它们只占今天地面垃圾的一小部分。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

考研It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.

它坚持认为，经济协调应该包括欧盟俱乐部的所有27个成员，其中支持自由市场自由主义和经济严谨的占少数；德国担心，仅在核心国内部，就有一小部分人赞成法国的干预。

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考When going for a walk, take along a small garbage bag.

出去散步时，带上一个小垃圾袋。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考A good neighbor is also one who likes to help out in small ways.

一个好邻居也是一个喜欢在小事上帮忙的人。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考Mathematical models have also revealed that food webs may be unstable, where small changes of top predators can lead to big effects throughout entire ecosystems.

数学模型还表明，食物网可能是不稳定的，顶级捕食者的微小变化可能会对整个生态系统产生重大影响。

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Small talk can also help people get a job.

闲聊也能帮助人们找到工作。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 任务型读写 原文

四级Also, certain types of bacteria are extremely harmful, and it takes only a small number to make you sick.

此外，某些类型的细菌是极其有害的，只需一小部分细菌就能让你生病。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

和许多第一代学生一样，他就读于一所中等规模的州立大学，他的许多高中同龄人也在就读，他获得了佩尔助学金，并获得了一些小额联邦贷款以支付其他费用。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

Mintel分析师Jack Duckett表示，强度、柔软度和厚度仍然是厕纸质量的领先指标，只有一小部分消费者更喜欢更豪华的替代品，如带有花卉图案或香水的替代品。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together.

虽然他们从一家小餐馆开始，但他们有着远大的梦想，他们一起工作。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

作为全国青年农民联盟NYFC的联合创始人(美国青年农会) 我自己也是一个家庭农民，我在小农户的创新活动中坐在前排，这些创新活动正在改变这个行业。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考But the next time you find yourself among strangers, consider that small talk is worth the trouble.

但是下次你在陌生人面前发现，闲聊是值得的。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Even men and schoolchildren are swelling the ranks,among them my friend's three small grandsons.

甚至连男人和学生都在壮大队伍，其中包括我朋友的三个小孙子。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

他甚至在不合适的时候也忍不住检查，比如我们在餐馆吃饭的时候，我正在和他说话！他表现得好像任何一点点无聊都会让他觉得有必要检查手机，即使他知道自己不应该这样做。

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

高考Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

研究人员发现了少量的脂肪，以及大量的石头和残存的小路。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

高考Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens.

今天，8美元或10美元似乎是一小笔钱，但在当时，这些钱对大多数公民来说是禁止的。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考While these are small in significant amounts, at the end of the year, you will have enough for an emergency fund, family celebration or holiday.

虽然这些数额很小，但在年底，你将有足够的钱用于应急基金、家庭庆典或度假。

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

四级And they target a small amount of money.

他们的目标是一小笔钱。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级The birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

通过使用一个小盒子运送少量鸟类食物，鼓励鸟类清洁公园。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级The Three-Year Solution Hartwick College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, makes New York, makes this offer to well prepared students: earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four, and save about 543,000—the amount of one year's tuition and fees

纽约州北部的一所小型文科学校哈特威克学院（Hartwick College）为准备充分的学生提供了一个为期三年的解决方案：在三年而不是四年内获得学士学位，并节省大约54.3万美元的一年学费

2012年6月阅读原文

六级They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

他们发现，在数字设备上花费很少时间的青少年（每周几小时）的幸福感最高。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级In fact, analysis actually showed a small weight loss.

事实上，分析结果显示体重减轻了一小部分。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

高考The bone structure of our ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and has a relatively small head.

我们祖先的骨骼结构发展了数百万年，以支持一种四肢行走、头部相对较小的生物。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

高考A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

瑞士的一项研究报告称，虽然贵金属所代表的电子产品的重量与废物总量相比相对较小，但所谓的电子废物中黄金和其他贵金属的浓度高于自然界。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

他们需要保持团队的小型化和集中化：屈服于压力，让团队更具包容性，这是功能失调的保证。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.

小的迹象可能预示着巨大的变化，因此值得关注。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

野生胡萝卜的根又白又小又细，所以你必须采很多野生胡萝卜才能吃得下。

2017年6月听力原文

考研Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

需求主要来自两个来源：独立的夫妻食品杂货店，与大型零售连锁店不同，它们太小，无法直接从生产商那里购买；以及食品服务运营商，它们在消费者不在家吃饭的情况下为他们提供服务。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考Some animals are simply very small or extremely flat.

有些动物很小或非常扁平。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级A raccoon, a small cat like animal climbed to the top of a 25-story sky scraper early on Wednesday.

周三早些时候，一只浣熊（一种类似猫的小动物）爬上了一座25层楼高的摩天大楼的顶部。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级"For all the anxiety the essay causes," says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, "it's a very small piece of the puzzle

宾夕法尼亚州默塞斯堡学院的比尔·麦克林蒂克说：“尽管这篇文章引起了所有的焦虑，但它只是谜题中的一小部分

2013年12月阅读原文

考研In many such cases, a cursory search for causes finds that some small group of people was wearing, promoting, or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

在许多这样的案例中，对原因的粗略搜索发现，有一小群人在其他人注意之前就穿着、推销或开发了任何东西。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考However, when you think about it, small talk is anything but small.

然而，当你想起来的时候，闲聊根本不是小事。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 任务型读写 原文

高考As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

当他们离开学生生活后，许多人在廉价但友好的当地酒吧喝了最后一杯，与长期室友握手，然后从小公寓搬到高楼里。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

四级She shares a small apartment with another teacher.

她和另一位老师共用一间小公寓。

2013年12月听力原文

四级The success of small schools is apparent in the listings.

小型学校的成功显而易见。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级The legend says that when seven girls were attacked by bears, they took refuge on top of a small rock, and they appealed to the Rock God for help.

传说中，当七个女孩被熊袭击时，她们在一块小岩石上避难，并向岩石之神求助。

2016年12月听力原文

高考Of course, safety should be considered, and that's one area where small towns are better than big cities.

当然，应该考虑安全问题，这是一个小城镇比大城市更好的领域。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

六级There isn't much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas

像格林维尔这样的小镇上没有多少暴力犯罪，或者至少没有大城市地区那么多

2011年6月听力原文

四级This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

这可能是我们看待工作和办公室方式的一个小变化，但研究人员认为，这挑战了经济的一个普遍特征：按时钟时间组织的工作。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级But Bowman's supporters argue that Monsanto is trying to expand the scope of patents in ways that would enrich big corporations and hurt small farmers

但鲍曼的支持者辩称，孟山都正试图扩大专利的范围，以使大公司致富并伤害小农户

2013年12月阅读原文

高考That's exactly what is happening in small neighborhoods around the country from orange county, California, where 22 measles cases were reported this month, to brooklyn, n.

从本月报告了22例麻疹病例的加利福尼亚州奥兰治县到北卡罗来纳州布鲁克林，全国各地的小社区都在发生这种情况。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考She arranged for a flight on a small plane to be held for me.

她为我安排了一次小型飞机的飞行。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.

参众两院的法案将建立医疗保险交易所，小企业和个人可以在这些交易所上从一系列私人计划中进行选择，也可能从公共计划中进行选择。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Since 2003 the small, elite liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students in entering freshman classes from 8% to 13%.

自2003年以来，缅因州不伦瑞克的一所小型精英文科学校将所谓代表性不足的少数民族学生进入新生班的比例从8%提高到13%。

2011年6月阅读原文

高考As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

事实上，被咬几乎没有痛苦：更多的是你可能从一个淘气的孩子那里得到的那种小咬。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文