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

但不久就被这个小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。

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，比其体型小的亲戚要容易得多。

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小而推论出来的。

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小量化词，如novelette，中篇小说。

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的小小绰号：小痘疱。

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”。

Don't let the diminutive title fool you.

不要让小标题欺骗了你。

The offline world offers other moments of diminutive drama.

线下世界提供了其他的小戏剧时刻。

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

她毫不费力地用亲切的小号称呼他。