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大小 in English:

1. size size


What's your shoe size?
The size of a man's laundry bill is no criterion of his income.
Mary decreased her waist size by swimming every day.
All this walking is killing the soles of my feet and my toes. I wonder if I have the right size shoes.
The planet Arèmo X3 is almost twice the size of planet Earth, and as you can see on the screen, quite similar to your world.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Firstly, I think that the first time each foreigner is in China, the earliest impression is certainly the size of the country.
Since ski season is almost over, the ski wear that's on sale is all leftovers, so there's nothing that's just my size.
You can't cop out on explaining a price increase of that size by blaming OPEC; that won't wash.
Judging by the size of this footprint, I'd say the perp is about six feet tall.
The author's verbiage produced a document of mammoth size and microscopic import.
He might, however, have seen a wooden peg of a different size or color.
Pages are usually at least 4 KiB (4×1024 bytes) in size, and systems with large virtual address ranges or large amounts of real memory generally use larger page sizes.
The chicks hatched in April have also become 5 months old. Their bodies are about the same size as their parents, about the only difference is that the roosters have smaller crests than their father.

English word "大小"(size) occurs in sets:

1000 most important Chinese words 501 - 550

2. Magnitude


Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.
He realized the magnitude of his crime.
I've never seen a pearl of such magnitude!
<the mountain's sheer magnitude usually leaves tourists speechless>
This oil field used to produce an order of magnitude more oil as it does now.
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Tokyo.
Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.
The magnitude of the issue can scarcely be overstated
It's up to two orders of magnitude less wasteful
The magnitude of a vector is indicated by the arrow’s length.
Our forces cannot repel power of that magnitude.
The hypotensive response was reduced in magnitude by pretreatment with antihistamines.
A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.