What cultural progress they had made among those people was by advanced western standards negligible indeed . 他们在这些人们中间所取得的文化上的成就,按西方先进标准来衡量,的确是微不足道的。
The very insignificance of this planet in the vastness of the known universe is enough to numb the minds of most people . 在广阔无垠的已知宇宙中,这颗行星是微不足道的,大多数人对此无法想象。
With a revulsion of feeling, she repeated that gerald was worthless and thanked heaven that she had escaped that danger . 随着感情的剧烈逆变,她又认为杰拉尔德微不足道,她感谢上天没让她掉进陷井。
We're in the habit of despising foreigners; the scorn we have for them is nothing to the scorn they have for us . 我们有一种轻视外国人的习惯;其实我们对他们的轻视比他们对我们的轻视,真是微不足道的。
He wanted to be free from any hidden shackles that would gall him, though ever so little under his ties to romola . 现在,由于他和罗摩拉的关系,他要避免一切可能妨碍他的暗藏的束缚,不管它怎样微不足道。
If his house could accommodate any friend of theirs-it would be but a slight acknowledgment of the many favours he owned them . 如果他的屋子能使公爵的任何朋友感到方便,这对公爵的恩情不过是个微不足道的报答。
The london teachers were so angry about the stingy offer of 12 pounds london allowance increase which mrs. thatcher made to them. 伦敦的教师对于撒切尔夫人提出给他们增加微不足道的十二英镑的地区津贴十分生气。
Full knowledge is not for man as man is here, for his capacities, which he is apt to think so great, are indeed but small . 全面渊博的知识不是赋予接受力有限的人类的,人类往往自以为才莫大焉,实则是微不足道。
As these broad black raindrops mingle with the waste of waters, making a trifling and momentary eddy, and are then lost for ever . 就象这些沉重的黑色的雨点一样落在茫茫大海里,只引起一道微不足道、瞬息的涟漪,从此永无踪影。
Though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time . 虽然他心肠友好,性情温厚而到处为人所爱,但他的才智无论在什么时候都是微不足道的。