so as to disappear or approach zero;

"errors are vanishingly rare"

The chance of such similar proteins emerging in unrelated species is so vanishingly small that the team propose another option.

如此相近的蛋白质要出现在不相关物种身上的几率是微乎其微的，以至于研究小组提出了另一个可能。

So, the chances of getting any activity from these inner shell of electrons are vanishingly small.

所以，内层电子间，进行反应的可能性，是很小很小的。

But it is now clear that Mr Blair committed British forces to it with vanishingly few reassurances from George Bush about how that country was to be reconstructed.

现在非常明确的是，MrBlair承诺英国军队参与粘在，随着从GeorgeBush的来的难以察觉的保障，这个国家如何重建。

Such lost worlds are vanishingly rare.

这样消逝的世界正在悄无声息地变得稀有起来。

In the traditional story of the origin of life, the chances of evolution producing a living cell are vanishingly small.

在关于生命起源的传统观念中，进化产生活体细胞的几率近乎为零。

It is vanishingly rarely seen in US nowadays.

现在在美国这是罕见的。

They're intelligent, but only if you define intelligence in a vanishingly narrow way.

只有当你用一种极为狭隘的方式去定义智慧时，这些电脑才能被称之为智能化。

Audible distortion is vanishingly low, and dynamic range is excellent.

失真相当低，而且动态表现卓越。

The cost to do so is vanishingly low, and the potential benefits and convenience are quite high.

这样做的成本几乎为零，而潜在的收益和便利却很多。

Bed thickness is analyzable until the bed thickness is vanishingly small.

可分析的薄层厚度可以无限小，直至消失。

The gene is vanishingly rare in humans, found in less than 3% of people.

这个基因在人类中极及罕见，只有不到3%的携带人群。

Like ignorance, lost innocence can be vanishingly hard to recover.

业已失去的纯真与无知，有如梦幻泡影，再无可能失而复得。

They may not, however, select students: they are required to take the most local ones, even when an academy replaces that vanishingly rare thing, a failing church school.

（见图表）但院校大部分生源来自当地，无权自主选择生源，即使某天院校取代了比例逐渐下降的教会学校。

This is vanishingly small.

这些项都很小。

In initial testing, the amount of power produced was vanishingly small — just 15 picowatts, or trillionths of a watt, per square centimeter of metal plate.

在初始测试阶段，能够获得的电能是极其微小的——每平方厘米的金属片只有15皮瓦(百亿分之一瓦)。

However, sadly (or perhaps reassuringly) for the vanishingly small subset of conspiracy theorists who know and care about the conference, that is about where the resemblance ends.

然而，对于难以察觉的一小部分阴谋论者来说是遗憾的(或者说是安慰的)，他们了解而且关心这次会议，但这次会议就是不同之处的开端。

Even with the latest DNA sequencing technology, the researchers had to design a special strategy to search for the vanishingly rare mutations.

即便是使用最先进的DNA测序技术，研究者们还是要设计专门的策略来寻找正在消失的稀少突变。

On one estimate, almost a third of its work concerns alleged human-rights violations, which made up a vanishingly small percentage of the law lords’ caseload a decade ago.

据估计，侵害人权的指控占几乎他们工作的三分之一，而在二十多年前这在法官们的待处理案件中只是可以忽略不计的部分。

So this is vanishingly small.

这些项都很小。

But the chances of a peaceful solution look vanishingly small.

然而和平解决的机率几近于零。

As Scoones agrees, a vital component of their success has been the sense of awe they inspire, which is a vanishingly rare commodity in the secular, postmodern world.

斯库恩斯表示，他们成功的关键在于营造出了一种敬畏感，在当下这种世俗后现代的世界中，这样的敬畏感近乎无处可寻了。