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Welcome to English in a Minute from home.
欢迎来到居家版《一分钟英语》栏目。
I tried to grow potatoes this year.
今年我尝试着种了种土豆
They were extremely small.
结果它们的个头非常小。
But do you know what "small potatoes" means as an idiom?
但是你知道作为习语，“small potato”的意思吗？
Jonathan, last night's storm was crazy. My electricity kept shutting off.
乔纳森，昨晚的暴风雨太猛烈了。我家一直处于停电状态。
Losing power is small potatoes compared to what happened to my neighbor.
跟我邻居家发生的事相比，停电简直是不值一提。
A huge tree fell on her house and her car.
一棵大树砸在她的房子和车上。
And her dog got scared and ran away.
她的狗受惊过度，跑掉了。
"Small potatoes" describes something that's not very important in comparison with other situations.
Small potatoes指的是与其他情况相比起来，就显得不太重要的事情。
You can use it to show that a problem is insignificant or minor.
你可以使用它来表示一个不重要的问题，或是次要的问题。
You can also sometimes use it to express that something actually is small in size or amount.
有时你也可以用它来表达某物在尺寸或数量上确实很小。
And that's English in a Minute!
以上就是本期的《一分钟英语》！
