violin，violin instrument，[俗] fiddle ；

[例句] 一名身穿晚礼服的表演者用小提琴演奏了几段古典音乐。 A performer in evening dress plays classical selections on the violin.

[例句] 她多年来苦练小提琴。 She has toiled away at the violin for years.

imp，goblin，（对小孩的亲昵称呼） little devil，devilkin，gremlin；

[例句] 你这小鬼! You young devil's spawn!

[例句] 我不能让他在别的小鬼面前觉得不光彩. I can't let him be ashamed before the other little brutes.

small circle [set] of people，small coterie [clique]，charmed circle ；

[例句] 青少年在和自己小圈子里的好友呆在一起时最为开心。 Young adolescents are happiest with small groups of close friends.

[例句] 它可能最终会使这个聒噪的知识分子小圈子安静下来。 It might, at last, silence the small but noisy intellectual clique.

abate，decrease，diminish，dwindle，minish ；

[例句] 他快步来到控制台跟前，减小了油门。 He stepped swiftly to the controls to throttle back the engine.

[例句] 上个月，通货膨胀的压力继续减小。 Inflationary pressures continued to slacken last month.

a small island，islet，isle，[电影]The Little Island；

[例句] 他们打算绕着小岛逆潮航行。 They were going to sail around the little island, against the tide.

[例句] 牧师占了小岛人口的很大一部分。 The island has a high quotient of clergymen.

by-lane，allée，alley，holing-through，alleyway ；

[例句] 从他的房间可以看见学院后面一条狭窄的小巷。 His rooms looked out over a narrow lane behind the college.

[例句] 她带着他们走进一条空寂无人的小巷。 She led them into a deserted sidestreet.

（盐或酱腌制的下酒饭的菜蔬） pickled vegetables，pickles，cole ；

[例句] 主菜是肉, 加上各种蔬菜作为小菜. The main dish was meat, with various vegetables as side dishes.

[例句] 老伙计，只不过又是一份盯梢的活。对你这样的人来说还不是小菜一碟。 Just another surveillance job, old chap. Piece of cake to somebody like you.

essay ；

[例句] 最近华格纳对这问题发表了一篇有趣的小品文. Wagner has lately published an interesting essay on this subject.

[例句] 华盛顿·欧文发表了不少优美的小品文和短篇小说. Washington Irving published graceful sketches and stories.

respite；

[例句] 他只求一杯清茶、片刻小憩。 All he wanted was a cup of tea and a sit-down.

[例句] 我们在树下小憩. We took a short rest under the tree.

dickey，dicky，birdie，chick，chicken；

[例句] 两只小鸟一出壳就离开了巢穴。 As soon as the two chicks hatch, they leave the nest burrow.

[例句] 远处传来庭园小鸟的鸣啭。 The chirps of the small garden birds sounded distant.

clique，faction，cliquish，ingroup，junta ；

[例句] 这俱乐部被知识分子小集团把持着. The club is dominated by a small clique of intellectuals.

[例句] 他的指示就是军令, 从 “ 小集团 ” 一直下达到成百上千的工作人员. His orders were commands, passed down from the " ring " to its hundreds or thousands of workers.

little，small，[法] petit，petty，Lilliputian ；

[例句] 再小的细节都逃不过她的眼睛。 No detail was too small to escape her attention.

[例句] 这一方案能为产量较小的公司带来滚滚财源。 The programme was a gold mine for small production companies.

diminutive，midget，[计] mini-，miniaturized，abbreviated ；

[例句] 有些小型的合作企业盈利非常极好. Some small cooperative enterprises share out very well.

[例句] 这个社区的成员非常复杂，尤其是因为这里有许多小型的工业企业。 The community is very mixed, not least because there are plenty of small industrial enterprises.

persnickety，costive，niggard，petty，curmudgeonly ；

[例句] 我不喜欢这种小里小气的裤子. I don't like those skimpy trousers.

[例句] 原来似乎是非常小气的伯伯竟突然间慷慨起来,这倒一下子把我弄得目瞪口呆. Now, my uncle seemed so miserly that I was struck dumb by this sudden generosity.

kiddy，bub，buster，sonny ；

[例句] 玛丽亚正用儿语和小家伙说话。 Maria was talking baby talk to the little one.

[例句] 好吧，小家伙，我给你支点招儿。 Well, sonny, I'll give you a bit of advice.

careful，cautious，discreet，painstaking，cautelous ；

[例句] 一名警察迈着小心的步子慢慢走过. A policeman walked by with a slow, measured tread.

[例句] 这个品种是经过小心的选择与淘汰才培育出来的. By careful selecting and roguing the strain was evolved.

nap，catch some Z's，beauty sleep，caulk off，lie-down ；

[例句] 他们会在一天中最炎热的时刻小睡一会儿。 They have a siesta during the hottest part of the day.

[例句] 吃过午饭，我小睡了会儿。 After lunch I had a doze.

[圣] cherub，angelet ；

[例句] 爸爸视她为小天使。 Poppa thought her an angel.

[例句] 苔莎的脸开始像云端里初现的小天使那样的快活. Tessa's face began to look as contented as a cherub's budding from a cloud.

immature，young，infantile ；

[例句] 注意儿童或其他幼小动物。 Watch any young human being, or any other young animal.

[例句] 这些幼小的游泳运动员非常喜爱的一项运动就是水下三轮车比赛. A game that is very popular with these young swimmers is the underwater tricycle race.

a minor illness，indisposition ；

[例句] 萨拉一直小病缠身。 Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses.

[例句] 我有点小病。 I've caught some kind of lurgy.