They laughed at my puny efforts.

他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。

As for recycling, the 9,500 tonnes of electronics, Apple says it has recycled since 1994, is puny given the amount of equipment the firm sells.

至于废物回收再利用问题，苹果公司自称从1994年以来已回收了9500吨电子元件，但相比其产品总销量微不足道。

The lamb was a puny little thing.

羊羔瘦小孱弱。

Ordinary cosmic rays are puny things.

普通的宇宙射线微不足道。

Yet it remains puny compared to AIPAC.

但比起aipac来它仍然是微不足道的。

Obstacles that are actually puny to them look Himalayan.

障碍物对他们看喜马拉雅山来说，确实是微不足道的。

Giant sequoias are unimpressed by your puny human lifespan.

与巨型红杉800至1300年的生命跨度相比，人的寿命极其微不足道。

Puny editorial budgets mean that investigations fizzle out.

媒体那些微不足道的编辑预算意味着调查活动只能以失败告终。

Gouki: I need no help from a puny little girl such as yourself!

豪鬼：我不需要得到一个像你这样微不足道的小女孩的帮助！

The iPhone's 2-megapixels seem puny, and it can't record video.

iPhone的200万像素显得寒嘇，也不能录制视频。

What can puny human strength take by force out of the hand of Omnipotence?

微弱的人们能用武力从全能者的手中夺取祝福么？

But steelmakers are puny compared with their main suppliers and customers.

但与供货厂和客户相比，这些钢厂依然处于弱势。

They die young, populating a crowded universe with relatively puny black holes.

在一个拥挤的，充满着相对弱小的黑洞的宇宙中，他们往往很早就衰亡了。

Even potential adversaries in a conventional war spend puny sums in comparison.

相比之下，它的潜在的敌人们在那些常规战斗中投入的资金则微不足道。

Advertisers and television networks have pushed back even against this puny threat.

连这个小小的威胁，广告与电视广播公司还在进攻。

Heavy rains flooded the land. A lack of nitrogen in the soil made the corn stalks puny.

有些农田被牲口过度放牧亏损，暴雨淹没了田地，缺乏氮气造成玉米的秆子矮小。

Fortunately, the online stores are all pretty good (except Apple's, whose book selection is still puny).

幸运的是，在线商店全都非常棒(除了苹果的，它的可选书籍依然很少)。

Research and development spending is under 1% of GDP—worse even than the puny 2% average of western Europe.

研发经费只有不到GDP的1%——甚至不到西欧平均水平的2%。

In Japan, for example, just 24% of television-owning households pay for more channels, and AD revenue is puny.

例如日本拥有电视的家庭中，仅有24%购买更多的频道，广告费微不足道。

The seedlings, puny and ankle high when they should be knee high by this time of year, are his second planting.

这些幼苗是他第二次播种的，往年这时候应该到膝盖高了，可现在小得才到脚脖子。

I'm awfully jaded about monotonous browser tabs, puny headlines and boring boxes all over the place, aren't you?

我对单调的浏览器标签非常厌倦，还有到处都是的标题和烦人的对话框，你不是么？

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

如果他以他那软弱的身心的整个力量爱她八年，也抵不上我一天的爱。

The carmaker's output of 108,000 vehicles in 2007 is puny by global standards—about half what Toyota builds in a week.

这家汽车制造商2007年产量是180,000辆，以国际标准来看，这是微不足道的——大约相当于丰田公司周产量的一半。

Like the early Apple II of Mr. Jobs, it is too puny for many tasks, including sequencing the entire genome of a person.

像早期的苹果II乔布斯，实在是太对许多任务，包括测序一个人的整个基因组微不足道。

To Steinberg, this shows clearly that risk-taking rises not from puny thinking but from a higher regard for reward.

对斯坦伯格而言，这清楚地表明，冒险增加并非由于考虑不周而是由于回报增加。

The carmaker's output of 108, 000 vehicles in 2007 is puny by global standards-about half what Toyota builds in a week.

2007年，这家公司的产量为108,000辆，仅是丰田公司周产量的半数，在全球市场也就是沧海一粟。

And Spain's exporters look puny compared with the large, idle industries, such as construction, that cater to domestic demand.

同诸如建筑业这样迎合国内需求的大型闲置产业相比，西班牙的出口商显得微不足道。

Puny demand was partly the result of small wage rises, but it was also because Germany's service sector is underdeveloped.

需求不足一方面是由工资涨幅过小导致的，然而，另一方面是德国服务业不发达。