小小
xiǎo xiǎo
Pinyin
Definition
小小
-
- very small
- very few
- very minor
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
以小人之心,度君子之腹
- 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
- 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
升斗小民
- 1 poor people (idiom)
- 2 those who live from hand to mouth
Sample Sentences
我不过是一颗小小的螺丝钉罢了,是公司的战略制定得好
I’m just a small fry, it’s the company’s strategy that is well formulated.
就是他啊,眼睛小小的、头发长长的,说话速度超快的小方啊。
That's her. With small eyes and long hair and who talks really fast. Xiao Fang, right?
你的手掌那么柔软,你小小的身体是那么娇小柔弱,爸爸妈妈好担心不能好好照顾你。
Your hand was so soft, your little body was so small and weak, mummy and daddy were very worried we wouldn't be able to look after you.
意思大概就是小小的幸福感吧。
I'm guessing that the general idea is that it's small bits of happiness.
白白的,小小的,好像是虱子。
White, tiny - it looks like lice.
还行,我还蛮喜欢闻的。去年我在厦门的时候泡过,里面有很多中药温泉,像什么人参温泉啊,冬虫夏草温泉啊,大大小小几十个池子呢。每种温泉都有不同的疗效。
It's okay. I really like the smell of it. Last year when I was in Xiamen I did it. They've got all kinds of TCM hot springs there like ginseng hot springs, cordyceps fungus hot springs, a bunch of pools of all sizes. Every kind of hot spring has different therapeutic effects.
当然,就当是公司给你的一个小小补偿吧。
Of course. It can be like a small bit of compensation from the company.
我还小小的呢。徐小婷,你来。
I'm still very small. (This is a pun on ''dà=big" in Chinese --Ed.) Xu Xiaoting, you do it.
你算了吧!联合国都没吱声,你一个小小的委内瑞拉叫嚣什么啊!况且你离南极还有十万八千里呢!
Forget it! The UN hasn't said a thing. What are you, little old Venezuela, making such a fuss about? And anyway, you're nine thousand kilometers from the South Pole!