A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小
Small
To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.
要想在音乐行业崭露头角，你只有一次机会。很多人都是先玩小游戏，然后在没有人真正看到他们的情况下以这种方式建立起来的。
My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
我的嘴有让我陷入麻烦的倾向，但因为我太小了，我喜欢和比我大的人说话。如果有人打我，我会让我的鼓手揍他们。
I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.
我有一个伟大的事业，无论我在做什么，一部大片……或者我的小纪录片，大卫莱特曼会打电话来说，我想让你坐在我的沙发上。
Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
每顿饭都应该以甜食结束。也许是早餐时涂在吐司上的果冻，或者晚餐时吃一小块巧克力——但它总是能帮助我的大脑在用餐时更接近尾声。
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
实际上，我第一次接触音乐是在我很小的时候，当我十几岁的时候，我想从音乐中赚钱，无论是在酒吧里唱歌，还是在录音室里当伴唱，还是在婚礼上。
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
回首……很难理解为什么在短短几年内事情发生了变化，大家都大惊小怪。当你看世界上发生的所有事情时，它似乎很小。
I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
我倾向于从你所说的个人生活的小世界开始。但我很感兴趣的是这个小而亲密的世界是如何与一个更大的世界联系起来的。
The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.
它们看起来像这样的原因是我画的第一张图很小，所以我没有画手指、鼻子、耳朵等等，这幅画有一定的吸引力，我真的很喜欢。
We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.
我们必须帮助小企业，因为他们是我们经济的支柱。我们必须为每个人增加机会，我们可以通过帮助妇女和少数人拥有的企业来做到这一点。
You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
在很多人面前你会变得更紧张。这就是为什么，当你演奏协奏曲时，你要和一个小型管弦乐队一起演奏，在一些你不觉得它像卡内基音乐厅那么重要的地方。
Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
与其说我不喜欢戏剧，不如说我更喜欢电视，因为它更倾向于以一种小的方式处理问题，而且能够触及比戏剧更广泛的人群。
You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
你知道，洛恩和那个节目的有趣之处在于，你可以做一百多万件事，但在一个精打细算的行业里，他仍然喜欢嘲笑小事情，并围绕它制作节目。
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I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
我宁愿做一件非常好的小事，也不愿做一件非常糟糕的大事。
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
独处能让你意识到那些失去的小乐趣。
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
作为一个小商人，你没有比真相更大的影响力。
I'm not great at small talk.
我不擅长闲聊。
She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.
她是如此的小，她可以使曼巴在一个电话亭。
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
小痛苦,像小债务,我们在很多地方,并满足我们很多转身角落,重量,他们想要的东西,他们的数量,并使它更少的有害站一个炮弹的火,凌空组成的这样一个淋浴的子弹。