The modesty of the demand shook me.

个要求如此微不足道，真使我震惊。

But these waterways seem minute in comparison to the world's two lengthiest rivers-the Nile and the Amazon.

但与世界上两条最长的河流——尼罗河和亚马逊河相，河似乎微不足道。

My grandfather was a very insignificant man.

我爷爷是个很微不足道的人。

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?

如果在只有微不足道的证据的情况下我们就可以给一个人定罪，那么人类的思维来说意味着什么？

Its roots were actually quite trivial and controversial.

它的起源实际上是非常微不足道和有议的。

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

所以，一切都始于欧洲人鸡肉征收的微不足道的关税。

But there was no escaping the fact that this conversion was superficial.

不可否认的是一变化微不足道。

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

按人均计算，的确是微不足道的数量。

And if he does, all these other women don't amount to a hill of beans.

如果他要的是你，那么其他所有女人都微不足道。

Eating just simple sugars is almost as insignificant to your appetite as drinking water.

只你的食欲几乎和喝水一样微不足道。

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

什么？-我们拥有的证据微不足道。

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.

我们可能正在大学宿舍里睡觉，或者晚上一个人在街上闲逛，然后突然意识到，在个更加广阔的宇宙中我们是多么的微不足道。

What Washington does — or doesn't do — to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

在全球能源意识发生转变的大背景下，无论华盛顿在促进其他能源的使用方面有所作为还是毫无作为，其意义可能会越来越微不足道。

When I first got away from home I thought this place was not worth troubling about. I thought our life here was contemptible.

我当初离开家时，觉得地方根本不值得花心思。我认为我们儿的生活太微不足道了。

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.

我在一个叫《不完美的爱》的剧中得到了一个微不足道的小角色，让我获得了同一个编剧所编电影《13个月亮》的演出机会，因此也获得了一个又一个的角色，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微不足道的小事儿来获取快乐。

I know that seems crazy and very small, but the thinner the rim, the better.

虽然细节看似微不足道，但杯口越薄，品酒体验越佳。

But the gates are nothing compared to what lies inside.

但与内部相，大门显得微不足道。

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，美国同墨西哥和加拿大的贸易微不足道。

That's why it's crucial to develop good habits for anything you do in life, no matter how small or insignificant they seem.

就是为什么在生活中做任何事情都要养成好习惯，不管它们看起来多么小或微不足道。