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

所以，这一切都始于欧洲人征收的微不足道的关税。

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，那么这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。

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

按人均计算，这的确是微不足道的数量。

A trivial change for us that made the world of difference to him.

我们微不足道的调整，他却意义非凡。

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，这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些微不足道的小事儿来获取快乐。

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，荡不公，可成千上万微不足道的善行累加起来，却产生我们想象不到的影响。

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在宇宙边缘，因此我们微不足道的感觉。

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的微生物活动已经长成了庞然大物，吸收了我们投入的所有氮肥。

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的钱工作。

Jim Crow was also the era of lynchings, when 4,400 people — three-quarters of them African-American — were murdered by their white neighbors for the smallest perceived infractions.

吉姆·克劳法也是私刑的时代，当时有 4,400 人——其中四分之三是非裔美国人——因为最微不足道的违规行为而被白人邻居谋杀。

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

看似微不足道的细节会引发你无法理解的强烈情绪反应。

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

即使看起来微不足道的遗物，也可能揭示人类早期历史的一些有趣的内容。

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

然而，按价值计算，印度在全球芒果出口市场的份额仅为微不足道的7%。

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

就这项罪行微不足道的性质而论，这样的刑罚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的，没什么是太微不足道的事情。

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

于一种微不足道的牙龈细菌来说，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，即使最微不足道的感染也可能在不知不觉中变得极为严重。