He couldn't help admiring the trim appearance and bold manner of this diminutive seafaring character.

但不久就被水手漂亮的水手服和航海家般的勇敢气质所打动了。

Not for tens of millions of years has life on Earth been so diminutive and tame.

可是，在过去的数千万年的时间里，地球上的生命从来不像今天那样靛乏和温顺。

It isn't even actually known that she was a female. Her sex is merely presumed from her diminutive size.

事实上，连她是不是一位女性我们也不知道，她的性别也仅仅是根据她身材较而推论出来的。

Being bigger helps them move from one habitat patch to another more easily than their diminutive relatives.

体型较大的动物在栖息地斑块之间迁移时，比其体型的亲戚要容易得多。

Diminutives can show warmth or kindness for a thing or person. They can also be used to insult.

量化词可表示对一件事或一人的温暖或友好。他们也可以用来表示侮辱。

And so this disease took on a diminutive moniker that belied the scale of its wretchedness: smallpox.

因此，种疾病有了一与其悲惨程度不符的绰号：痘疱。

The longer spelling – l-e-t-t-e – only forms a diminutive in a few English words, like novelette, a short novel.

较长的拼写 l-e-t-t-e 只在一些英语单词中构成量化词，如novelette，中篇说。

Anika The girl's name Anika is the diminutive form of Anna, which comes from the Hebrew name for " grace."

安妮卡女孩的名字安妮卡是安娜的缩略形式，它来自希伯来语的名字“恩典”。

Several people and agencies have set out to find the diminutive little island without success.

一些人和机构已经着手寻岛，但没有成功。

She had slipped effortlessly into addressing him by an affectionate diminutive.

。 她已经不自觉地用了一种亲昵的称呼来叫他。

Don't let the diminutive title fool you.

不要让标题欺骗了你。

The smallest, most diminutive character of this entire world, and you're their leader.

在世界中最最不起眼的角色，而你却是他们的领袖。

I believe I have a little diminutive note somewhere; yes, here it is'.

我相信我在某处有一张纸条； 是的，就在里'。

Carefully he opened the door and peered into the diminutive cabin.

他心翼翼地打开门，探头望向那狭的机舱。

Except then you'd have to out yourself as a diminutive, suburban poseur.

但样就会暴露你就是那郊区虚伪矮女。

A small cupboard held a diminutive but commodious set of earthenware.

一橱柜里放着一套巧但宽敞的陶器。

Mosquitoes have teeth. Since mosquitoes are so tiny, imagine how diminutive their teeth must be!

- 蚊子有牙齿。既然蚊子是如此之，想象一下它们的牙齿该有多！

She has to be always visible in the crowd and you know, she's of diminutive stature.

她必须始终在人群中引人注目，而且你知道，她身材矮。

By nature he was a rather diminutive, retiring figure, one whose favoured pastimes were stamp-collecting and hunting.

他天生是比较矮、内向的人物，喜欢的消遣是集邮和狩猎。

The film is called Gorbachev Rae a play on the diminutive form of Risa, which also means heaven.

部电影名为《戈尔巴乔夫赖莎》， 是对赖莎昵称的一种玩味，同时也意味着天堂。