Alyce is standing on the corner crying, covered in tiny shards of glass but uninjured.

爱丽丝站在角落哭泣，她身上都是小的玻璃碎片，但是没有受伤。

So it was basically like getting a splinter removed.

所以这事就跟取个小碎片差不多。

Besides, the white suit can prevent small debris from hurting space-travelers.

此外，这套白色宇航服还可以防止小碎片伤害宇航员。

It will go through the structure, so it is a risk.

那么这些小碎片将穿过太空设备，所以这是一个风险。

So you see all these little bits of chocolate coming up.

所以你所有这些小巧克力碎片。

They say that when men get to the bottom of a bag of chips they get all the little broken pieces, and they put them in their mouth, and then they lick their fingers with tremendous glee.

他们说当人吃薯片吃见底的时候，他们所有小碎片，然后吃掉，无比欢欣地舔着手指。

And when the glass breaks, it shatters into lots of tiny little pieces.

当玻璃破碎时，它碎成许多小碎片。

Yeah, there's just like so much history in some of these little pieces.

是的，这些小碎片中有很多历史。

Sunlight breaks it down into smaller and smaller pieces.

阳光把它分解成越来越小的碎片。

So he's finding some really small fragments lately.

他最近发现了一些非常小的碎片。

Microplastics are very small pieces of plastic.

微塑料是非常小的塑料碎片。

You have those thousands of little coral fragments, and you have the fish.

你的周围有成千上万的小珊瑚碎片，还有鱼儿。

Those get really chewy, and then the smaller pieces get really crispy.

这些吃起来很有嚼劲，小一点的碎片就焦香酥脆。

Heat, weather, and even animal digestion break down plastic into smaller and smaller pieces.

热量、天气，甚至动物的消化作用，都将塑料分解成越来越小的碎片。

CHIP MCGIIMSEY, ARCHAELOGIST: They did some limited investigations and could look at very small pieces, basically sort of 1 or 2 foot wide parts of it, trying to get understanding of how it was constructed and how old it was.

建筑师 Chip Mcgiimsey：他们进行了一些有限的调查，可以非常小的碎片，基本上是一两英尺宽的部分碎片，来试图了解沉船是如何建造的，它有多古老。

Now, as plastic breaks down, it breaks into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces, and some of the smallest plastics may be capable of doing the most harm.

随着塑料的分解，它分裂成越来越小的碎片，而一些最小的塑料造成最大的伤害。

As rocks chip off mountains or break away into rivers, they make their way slowly downstream, eroding and breaking down into even smaller pieces as the water swirls the rocks around.

当岩石从山上掉下来或冲入河流时，它们缓慢地向下游移动，随着水带动岩石旋转，被侵蚀并分解成更小的碎片。

The idea was that it would blow the whale apart into smaller pieces that could then be eaten up by scavengers like seagulls but that's not exactly what happened.

当时的想法是，它把鲸鱼炸成更小的碎片，然后被海鸥之类的食腐动物吃掉，但事实并非如此。

And that became a really important sample because as people looked through it, they found little fragments of white rock and they're like, oh, it's anorthosite.

这成了一个非常重要的样本，因为当人们查它时，他们发现了白色岩石的小碎片，他们就像，哦，这是斜长岩。

Sometimes, the immense pressure of ramming Earth's air causes the incoming meteoroid to crumble or even explode, raining down dozens or hundreds of smaller pieces.

有时，撞击地球大气的巨大压力导致来袭的流星体破碎甚至爆炸，将数十或数百个更小的碎片抛洒下来。