Smallness

例句:

• Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely transcended theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The smallness of the house, said she, I cannot imagine any inconvenience to them, for it will be in proportion to their family and income. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Or again, suppose two objects to be relatively great and small, these ideas of greatness and smallness are supplied not by the sense, but by the mind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He hoped they would all excuse the smallness of the party, and could assure them it should never happen so again. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The smallness of the probability is compensated by the greatness of the evil; and the sensation is equally lively, as if the evil were more probable. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The smallness of the rooms above and below, indeed, and the narrowness of the passage and staircase, struck her beyond her imagination. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Perhaps just at present he may be undecided; the smallness of your fortune may make him hang back; his friends may all advise him against it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• But is this equally true of the greatness and smallness of the fingers? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Fred had known men to whom he would have been ashamed of confessing the smallness of his scrapes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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