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

但不久就被这个小水手漂亮的水手服和航海家般的勇敢气质所打动了。

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

可是，在过去的数千万年的时间里，地球上的生命从来不像今天那样靛乏和温顺。

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

体型较大的动物在栖息地斑块之间迁移时，比其体型小的亲戚要容易得多。

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

事实上，连她是不是位女性不知道，她的性别仅仅是根据她身材较小而推论出来的。

The longer spelling – l-e-t-t-e – only forms a diminutive in a few English words, like novelette, a short novel.

较长的拼写 l-e-t-t-e 只在些英语单词中构成小量化词，如novelette，中篇小说。

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

因此，这种疾病有了个与其度不符的小小绰号：小痘疱。

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

安妮卡女孩的名字安妮卡是安娜的缩略形式，它来自希伯来语的名字“恩典”。

Don't let the diminutive title fool you.

不要让小标题欺骗了你。

The offline world offers other moments of diminutive drama.

线下世界提供了其他的小戏剧时刻。

She had slipped effortlessly into addressing him by an affectionate diminutive.

她毫不费力地用亲切的小号称呼他。

I believe I have a little diminutive note somewhere; yes, here it is'.

相信在某处有张小纸条； 是的，就在这里'。

Several people and agencies have set out to find the diminutive little island without success.

些人和机构已经着手寻找这个小岛，但没有成功。

Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.

奥利弗·退斯特 (Oliver Twist) 九岁生日时发现他是个苍白瘦弱的孩子，身材有些矮小，围度明显偏小。

Except then you'd have to out yourself as a diminutive, suburban poseur.

但这样就会暴露你就是那个郊区虚伪矮个女。

She has to be always visible in the crowd and you know, she's of diminutive stature.

她必须始终在人群中引人注目，而且你知道，她身材矮小。

By nature he was a rather diminutive, retiring figure, one whose favoured pastimes were stamp-collecting and hunting.

他本质上是个相当矮小的、隐居的人物，他最喜欢的消遣是集邮和狩猎。

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博士计划利用这点给无人机装上小型扬声器，就像智能手机上的那样。

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，被称作霍比特人的身材矮小人种弗洛瑞斯人存在的年份比之前料想的要早得多，乔纳森·阿莫斯报道。

Today, we will explore American English diminutives made from many word endings as well as the prefix mini-.

今天，将探讨美式英语中由许多单词结尾和前缀 mini- 组成的小量化词。

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 结尾的英语单词(或今天要探讨的任何其他形式的单词)都具有小量化的意义。