It's sort of like...not the smallest unit, but a small unit for measuring digital storage.

这有点像是......不是最小的，应该是用于描述数储存的小。

But according to a new study, if you think about time in smaller units – so days, for example, rather than months or years– you are likely to start a task more quickly.

但是一项新研究显示，如果你将时间分为更小的，例如几天，而不是几个月几年，你就更快地开始做一项任务。

Either you had to break things up into tiny little units.

要么你必须把剧本分解成小去演。

Solar panels are made up of smaller units called solar cells.

太阳板由更小的构成， 称为太阳电池。

For most of human history, we lived in small family units.

在人类历的大多数时候， 我们都生活在小的家庭里。

The basic idea is a collection of small units, called neurons.

大概意思就是名为神经元的小的集合。

This idea that all matter is made up of smaller units.

这一观点认为，所有物质都是由更小的构成的。

But the calories listed on your can of soda are actually kilocalories—each one equal to 1, 000 of the “small calories” that chemists use to measure energy.

但是标在罐装苏打水上的卡路里实际上是千卡，每千卡等于1000卡，这里更小的“卡”就是化学家时用到的。

Even though The United States is made up of smaller units called " states, " they are not sovereign countries and are not internationally recognized as such.

尽管美国是由被称为states（州）的较小组成的，但这些州不是主权国家，也没有得到国际公认。

If atoms could eternally be broken down into ever smaller parts, nature would begin to dissolve like constantly diluted soup.

因为如果每一个组成各种事物的都可以被分割咸更小的，则大自然将开始像不断被稀释的汤一般消失了。

Dragonflies have pretty much the best compound eyes out there with around 30,000 of those little units per eye.

蜻蜓拥有最好的复眼，每只眼睛大约有 30000 个这样的小。

But before jumping to the full day, let's begin with the smaller unit of time — the second.

但是在跳到完整的一天之前，让我们从更小的时间——秒开始。

What we do want is to look at a sentence as if it's comprised of chunks, small units.

我们想要的是，这些句子由一些小的组成。

It's broken up into these little tone units or what I tend to refer to as phrases.

它被分解成一些小的音调，或者我通常所说的短语。

And when using smaller units of measurement like I assume NOAA was using, it's not that hard to see how they came up with the Louisiana coast being more than twice as long as the California coast.

当使用更小的时，就像我假设美国国家海洋和大气管理局使用的那样，不难看出他们是如何得出路易斯安那州海岸线是加利福尼亚海岸线两倍多这样的结论的。

For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.

德谟克里特斯认为，证明组成各种事物的不可被无限制分割咸更小的是很重要的。

But when you look at sentences I want you to think about it as if it's comprised of small units rather than separate words.

但是当你看句子的时候，我希望你把它看作是由一些小的组成的，而不是独的词。

Okay? And then take a text divide it into small units.

好吗？然后拿一段文字把它分成小。

If you want to measure the full length including all of the curves, then you've got to use a smaller unit of measurement broken up into smaller chunks.

如果你想包括所有曲线在内的整个长度，那么你就必须使用更小的，将其分成更小的块。

We can form things out of clay too, but clay cannot be used over and over, because it can be broken up into smaller and smaller pieces.

我们也可以用黏土来做东西，不过黏土不可以重复使用，因为它可以不断被分割成更小的。