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

所以，一切都始于欧洲人对鸡肉征收的微不足道的关税。

My grandfather was a very insignificant man.

我爷爷是很微不足道的人。

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?

如果只有微不足道的证据的情况下我们就以给一人定罪，那么对人类的思维来说意味着什么？

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。

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.

我们能正大学宿舍里睡觉，或者晚上一人街上闲逛，然后突然意识到，更加广阔的宇宙中我们是多么的微不足道。

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

对我们微不足道的调整，对他却意义非凡。

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.

我一叫《不完美的爱》的剧中得到了一微不足道的小角色，让我获得了同一编剧所编电影《13月亮》的演出机会，因此也获得了一又一的角色，从此展开演员生涯。

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

你仍然以通过做一些微不足道的小事儿来获取快乐。

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百分点因为同整体经济相比，美国同墨西哥和加拿大的贸易微不足道。

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，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.

就使人们产生了我们居住宇宙边缘，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.

但并不意味着斯坦要为微不足道的钱工作。

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.

就项罪行微不足道的性质而论，样的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的，没什么是太微不足道的事情。

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

对于一种微不足道的牙龈细菌来说，种后果很严重。