My grandfather was a very insignificant man.

我爷爷是个很微不足道人。

Which makes you wonder: What does it say about the human mind that we can find such paltry evidence to be compelling enough to convict a man?

如果只有微不足道证据情况下我们就可以给一个人定罪，那么这对人类来说意味着什么？

So, it all started with the Europeans' humble chicken tariff.

所以，这一切都始于欧洲人对鸡肉征收微不足道关税。

And in per capita terms, that's really an insignificant amount.

按人均计算，这确是微不足道数量。

What? -The evidence we have is minimal at best.

什么？-我们拥有证据微不足道。

We might be in a bedsit at university or wandering the streets of the city at night on our own—when it occurs to us, with full force, how negligible a thing we are in the wider scheme.

我们可能正大学宿舍里睡觉，或者晚上一个人街上闲逛，然后突然意识到，这个更加广阔宇宙中我们是多么微不足道。

I got a low-paying theater job in a play called imperfect love, which led to a film called 13 moons with the same writer, which led to other roles which led to other roles, and I've worked as an actor ever since.

我一个叫《不完美爱》剧中到了一个微不足道小角色，这让我了同一个编剧所编电影《13个月亮》演出机会，因此了一个又一个角色，从此展开演员生涯。

You can do small, trivial things and yet still get these benefits from doing this.

你仍然可以通过做一些微不足道小事儿来取快乐。

NAFTA only increased the U.S. GDP by a few hundredths of a percent because relative to the size of the total economy, trade with Mexico and Canada isn't that big.

NAFTA仅仅使美国国民生产总值上升了几个百分点因为同整体经济相比，美国同墨西哥和加拿大贸易微不足道。

On our own, we cannot end wars or wipe out injustice, but the cumulative impact of thousands of small acts of goodness can be bigger than we imagine.

就我们自己而言，我们无法结束战争，扫荡不公，可成千上万微不足道善行累加起来，却产生我们想象不到影响。

This became a metaphor for the idea that we live on the edge of a distant corner of the universe and we are all very insignificant.

这就使人们产生了我们居住宇宙边缘，因此我们微不足道感觉。

As I said, what used to be a small, insignificant microbial activity in the soil has grown into a monstrous proportion, sucking up all the fertilizer nitrogen we are applying.

如我所说，以前土壤中这微不足道微生物活动已经长成了庞然大物，吸收了我们投入所有氮肥。

But that doesn't mean Stan is going to work for peanuts.

但这并不意味着斯坦要为微不足道钱工作。

Seemingly minor details trigger intense emotional reactions you don't understand.

看似微不足道细节会引发你无法理解强烈情绪反应。

Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.

即使看起来微不足道遗物，可能揭示人类早期历史一些有趣内容。

Yet its share of the global export market by value is a meagre 7%.

然而，按价值计算，印度全球芒果出口市场份额仅为微不足道7%。

Considering the trivial nature of the crime, the punishment seemed quite harsh to some.

就这项罪行微不足道性质而论，这样刑罚对有些人来说似乎相当严厉。

Every bit of effort counts.And nothing is too insignincant, really.

让他们轻松脱逃，一切努力都是有意义，没什么是太微不足道事情。

That's a lot of consequences for one measly gum bacterium.

对于一种微不足道牙龈细菌来说，这种后果很严重。

Without that response, even minor infections could potentially become really serious.

缺少了这种反应，即使最微不足道感染可能不知不觉中变极为严重。