less，lesser，mi-，mio-，on the small side ；

[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.

[例句] 航空公司投入了大笔资金购买噪音较小的新型飞机。 The airlines have invested enormous sums in new, quieter aircraft.

team，squad，group，[军] unit，maniple ；

[例句] 埃米知道那一小队旅行者正在看着她们俩。 Amy was aware of the little troop of travellers watching the two of them.

[例句] 两万波斯士兵败在这一小队人面前. Twenty thousand Persian soldiers had fallen before that handful of men.

houselet，cella，（小老婆） concubine ；

[例句] 他们住的小房真是异乎寻常地脏. The huts they lived in were sordid and filthy beyond belief.

[例句] 他回到了他那所小房儿. He returned to his cottage.

small-sized newspaper，tabloid，tab，[电影]Tabloid；

[例句] 我觉得他天生就是当小报编辑的料。 I think he was born to be editor of a tabloid newspaper.

[例句] 小报的报道引起民众对他为期7天的访问的强烈不满。 The tabloid press kicked up a stink about his seven-day visit.

pillaret，colonnette，columella (pl. columellae) ；

[例句] 楼梯栏杆小柱楼梯扶手的垂直支撑之一. One of the vertical supports of a handrail on a staircase.

[例句] 一只绿蚱蜢跳到小柱的脚背上, 它肯定觉得这地方很暖和, 就停下来,理了理触须. A grasshopper jumped on Zhus foot. It thought it find a warm place, and feeler there.

townlet，whistle-stop，small town，[电影]The Town；

[例句] 当小镇的时钟敲响两点钟时，他们听到了隆隆的鼓声。 As the town clock struck two, they heard the roll of drums.

[例句] 我一点也看不出她和那个小镇有什么联系。 I can't find any tie between her and the town.

tad，dot，piccaninny，tyke ；

[例句] 小孩子说话时喜欢用上热烈、表达喜爱的肢体触碰。 The children are very tactile with warm, loving natures.

[例句] 我永远忘不了你为这些小孩子所做的一切。 I'm not ever going to forget what you've done for the nippers.

radish ；

[例句] 圆葱 、 芹菜 、 卷心菜、葱头 、 苹果、小萝卜 、 蒜 、 蘑菇 、 去掉种子的橄榄等. Common onion, celery, cabbage, apple, garlic, mushroom, olive without seeds etc.

[例句] 有人喜欢吃小萝卜, 有人则喜欢吃洋白菜. Some persons like to eat radishes, others prefer cabbages.

trumpet，[刷] fine，clarino，horn ；

[例句] 他的小号演奏独创一格。 His playing as a trumpet player was quite revolutionary.

[例句] 出售的女装有小号、中号和大号。 Women's apparel is offered in petite, regular, and tall models.

wicket，[电影]Drzwi w murze；名 gate；

[例句] 我准备从那边小门溜出去. I was ready to sly out the alley door.

[例句] 他从砖墙的小门偷偷进入俱乐部。 He made a surreptitious entrance to the club through the little door in the brick wall.

ditty，popular tune，roundelay，bagatelle ；

[例句] 他们说着荤段子，哼着不着调的小曲儿。 They told dirty jokes and sang raucous ballads.

[例句] 她哼着一支欢快的小曲儿。 She was humming a merry little tune.

a coquetish young girl，goblin，pygmy，[电影]Goblin；

[例句] 要不是这样, 你这个怪里怪气的小妖精似的孩子是从哪儿来的? ” Or , if not, thou strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come? "

[例句] 你把这话告诉她好吗, 你这小妖精? ” Wilt thou tell her this, thou witch - baby? "

small mistake，slip，slide ；

[例句] 有个地方出了点小错。 There's been a slip-up somewhere.

[例句] 小错不改,将会酿成大错. If small mistakes are passed by, they may lead to more serious ones.

doggy，Lesser Dog ；

[例句] 仙鹤与小犬的描绘, 毛发渲染与梳理十分周到. Stork with the description of the small dog, the hair rendering with comb very thoughtful.

[例句] 余尝言,愿购小犬一头相赠,待阖家乔迁总统府邸之日,相携同进吾宅. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the new White House.

fictionist，novelist，Zola ；

[例句] 他过去曾与许多女演员和女小说家调情。 In the past he dallied with actresses and lady novelists.

[例句] 不，我不赞成停止颁奖和取消小说家的奖金。 No, I'm not for abolishing prizes and denying novelists their money.

minor overhaul，light overhaul，minor repair，current repair ；

[例句] 任何小修小补都是于事无补的。 No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters.

[例句] 所有小修道院都由克呂尼的院长直接管理. All the priories were made directly subject to the abbot of Cluny.

tubule，tubelet，canaliculus ；

[例句] 小鼠肾小管的发育需要有两种分化的细胞. The development of mouse kidney tubules requires two kinds of differentiated cells.

[例句] 血型不合也能导致肾小管损害和严重的少尿. Blood incompatibilities can also result in tubular damage and severe oliguria.

tearoom ；

[例句] 我们是在餐厅吃的饭，而不是在小饭馆。 We ate in the restaurant, as opposed to the bistro.

[例句] 他的衣服常常是油腻腻的, 发出一股小饭馆的味道. His clothes were apt to look oily , and smell of eating - houses.

gosling ；

[例句] 这份报告是关于小鹅瘟的诊断与防制的。 This report is about diagnosis and control of gosling pest.

[例句] 一只新生小鹅加入鹅家. A new born gosling joined the goose family.

groupuscule，grouplet，subgroup ；

[例句] 有些街角上和附近的酒店周围,小群的工人在闲荡. About certain corners and nearby saloons small groups of men were lounging.

[例句] 有的是以小群投资者的组织; 而有的则拥有几百名成员. Some contain a handful of investors; others have several hundred.