He couldn't help admiring the trim appearance and bold manner of this diminutive seafaring character.

但不久就被这个小手漂手服和航海家般勇敢气质所打动了。

He changed the name of Super Crema to Nutella, which combined the English word " nut" with an Italian diminutive associated with other food like mozzarella, portabella and citronella.

他将超级巧克力酱（Super Crema ）更名为能多益（Nutella），这是将英语单词 " 坚果 " 与意大利语中马苏里拉芝士、波特贝拉芝士和香茅芝士等其他食物小名结合在了一起。

It is certainly a good fix for a player who used to get teased for his diminutive stature and absolutely hates the nickname he got because of his height — La Pulga, Spanish for The Flea.

这对来说当然是个很棒掩饰，他曾经因自己身材矮小而被嘲笑，超级讨厌他绰号——La Pulga，西班牙语里“跳蚤”意思。

But in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the diminutive word had taken on a new life as a term used to describe a recreational activity performed outside of your normal work hours.

但是随着工业革命到来，这个昵称词有了新指向，用来描述在正常工作时间之外娱乐活动。

A diminutive candle-flame was mirrored in each pupil, and it would have been possible to distinguish therein between the moods of hope and the moods of abandonment, even as regards the reddleman, though his facial muscles betrayed nothing at all.

他们两人瞳孔里都映着一个微小烛焰，即便是土贩子，虽然他脸部肌肉没有丝毫显露，从眼睛里还可以分辨出是希冀还是放弃心境。

Tazio was Enzo's polar opposite: physically diminutive but absolutely reckless, he did not have any qualms in completely wrecking his cars in order to get a victory.

塔齐奥与恩佐截然相反：身材矮小，但非常鲁莽，为了取得胜利，他会毫不犹豫地破坏自己赛车。

Many male names have shifted to be almost exclusively used for girls, especially ones ending in the diminutive E sound, like Lindsay, Leslie, Courtney, and Hillary.

许多男性名字已经变成几乎只供女孩使用，尤其是以小E音结尾，比如林赛，莱斯利，考特尼和希拉里。

That name is just a diminutive version of Aodh or Aed, who was the Celtic god of the sun, and whose name can also be translated to " fire."

这个名字只是凯尔特太阳神Aodh或Aed缩略语，他名字也可以翻译为“火”。

The hotel refreshment–rooms were comfortable, and Mr. Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue.

国际饭店餐厅非常舒适。福克先生和艾娥达夫人在一张餐桌旁，刻就有几个面目清秀黑人送来了一小盘一小盘菜，他们饱饱地吃了一顿。

The diminutive machine can crawl, walk, turn and jump, and is able to move at speeds of up to nearly half its body length per second.

这台微型机器可以爬行、行走、转身和跳跃，每秒移动长度近身体一半。

And they found that these diminutive dynamos churned out stars at a furious rate, fast enough to double their mass in only 150 million years.

而他们发现这些小型发电机以近乎疯狂速度制造着星球，在只有一亿五千万年时间里其质量就已翻倍。

And take note: Not all English words ending in -y or i-e (or any other form we'll explore today) make a diminutive meaning.

并不是所有以 -y 或 i-e 结尾英语单词(或我们今天要探讨任何其他形式单词)都具有小量化意义。

To take advantage of it Dr Roy and Mr Garg plan to fit drones with diminutive loudspeakers, like those found in smartphones.

Roy博士和Garg博士计划利用这一点给无人机装上小型扬声器，就像智能手机上那样。

Researchers say the diminutive human species Homo floresiensis, dubbed 'the hobbit', is much older than first thought. Jonathan Amos has the story.

研究人员称，被称作霍比特人身材矮小人种弗洛瑞斯人存在年份比之前料想要早得多，乔纳森·阿莫斯报道。

And so this disease took on a diminutive moniker that belied the scale of its wretchedness: smallpox.

因此，这种疾病有了一个与其悲惨程度不符小小绰号：小痘疱。

It isn't even actually known that she was a female. Her sex is merely presumed from her diminutive size.

事实上，连她是不是一位女性我们也不知道，她性别也仅仅是根据她身材较小而推论出来。

Being bigger helps them move from one habitat patch to another more easily than their diminutive relatives.

体型较大动物在栖息地斑块之间迁移时，比其体型小亲戚要容易得多。

Not for tens of millions of years has life on Earth been so diminutive and tame.

可是，在过去数千万年时间里，地球上生命从来不像今天那样靛乏和温顺。

In English, adding the letter -y to the end of some words can suggest the things they describe are small or well-loved. We call this the diminutive.

在英语中，在一些单词后面加上字母 -y 可以表示它们所描述事物很小或很受欢迎，我们称它为小量化词。

Anika The girl's name Anika is the diminutive form of Anna, which comes from the Hebrew name for " grace."

安妮卡女孩名字安妮卡是安娜缩略形式，它来自希伯来语名字“恩典”。