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

但不久就被这个水手漂亮水手服和航海家般勇敢气质所打动了。

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

可是，在过去数千万年时间里，地球命从来不像今天那样靛乏和温顺。

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

体型较大动物在栖息地斑块之间迁移时，比其体型亲戚要容易得多。

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

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

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个人温暖或友好。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，这种疾病有了一个与其悲惨程度不符绰号：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."

安妮卡女字安妮卡是安娜缩略形式，它来自希伯来语字“恩典”。

Don't let the diminutive title fool you.

不要让标题欺骗了你。

The offline world offers other moments of diminutive drama.

线下世界提供了其他戏剧时刻。

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

她毫不费力地用亲切号称呼他。

Rumors about Napoleon's diminutive stature  were rife even during his lifetime.

关于拿破仑身材矮谣言在他前就已经盛行。

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，就在这里'。

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找这个岛，但没有成功。

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

一个橱柜里放着一套巧但宽敞陶器。

Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.

奥利弗·退斯特 (Oliver Twist) 九岁日时发现他是个苍白瘦弱子，身材有些矮，围度也明显偏。

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

但这样就会暴露你就是那个郊区虚伪矮个女。

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.

他本质是一个相当矮、隐居人物，他最喜欢消遣是集邮和狩猎。