"Small is beautiful" nghĩa là gì?

"Small is beautiful" = nhỏ mới đẹp -> nghĩa là khái niệm/tư tưởng rằng những điều tưởng chừng nhỏ bé, tầm thường lại mang vẻ đẹp nhiều hơn là những thứ ở quy mô to lớn. "Small is Beautiful" là tên một cuốn sách của E. F. Schumacher xuất bản năm 1973, cụm từ thông dụng qua khẩu hiệu của các nhà bảo vệ môi trường.

Ví dụ

‘Small is beautiful’ is the concept that comes to mind. I picture a country that through its own actions brings itself down to size and from that humble position, a positive regrowth (phục hồi tích cực) can begin.

To my mind, the wrong path was chosen when growth is favoured; our elected leaders ignored that small is beautiful, believing in their own intelligence as managers of size, masters of technology, gurus (bậc thầy) of “the Nelson lifestyle.” 

Small is beautiful, and the Electron evokes love at first sight. Anybody who looks at this black beauty will fall for it, especially when it is standing tall on the launch pad at the picturesque launch site at New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. But it is not all external beauty alone. 

Connecticut is the third smallest state in the U.S. Our RV adventures often showed us that there is a lot of truth to the saying “small is beautiful.” In just two nights of camping, we discovered the beauty of Connecticut, which, together with Rhode Island, the smallest state, we enjoyed on the way from New York to Massachusetts. 

Bài trước: "Smack in the face" nghĩa là gì?