small
small 英 [smɔ:l] 美 [smɔl]
adj. 少的，小的；微弱的 adv. 小小地；
名词复数:smalls 比较级:smaller 最高级:smallest
- Things that are small are little. Children, lower-case letters, lady bugs, and thumb tacks are all small.
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- adj. 少的，小的；微弱的
- adv. 小小地；
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1. a small house/town/car/man
小房子；小镇；小型汽车；小个子男人
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2. a small farmer
小农场主
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3. That dress is too small for you.
那件连衣裙你穿太小。
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4. This is too big—have you got a small one?
这个太大了，有没有小的？
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5. They have three small children.
他们有三个年幼的孩子。
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6. I made only a few small changes to the report.
我对报告只做了几处小改动。
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7. a small farmer
小农场主
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8. They have small hope of succeeding.
他们成功的希望不大。
- small (adj.) Old English smæl "thin, slender, narrow; fine," from Proto-Germanic *smal- "small animal; small" (source also of Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German smal, Old Frisian smel, German schmal "narrow, slender," Gothic smalista "smallest," Old Norse smali "small cattle, sheep"), perhaps from a PIE root *(s)melo- "smaller animal" (source also of Greek melon, Old Irish mil "a small animal;" Old Church Slavonic malu "bad"). Original sense of "narrow" now almost obsolete, except in reference to waistline and intestines.
- small (n.) early 13c., "small person or animal," from small (adj.). From c. 1300 as "persons of low rank" (opposed to great); late 15c. as "the small part" of something (such as small of the back, 1530s).
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