There have been very small tremors in the past but they pale into insignificance compared to this one.

过去发生过一些非常小的地震，但是和这次的相比，之前的地震显得无关紧要。

The amounts of money involved pale into insignificance when compared with the sums spent each year on research.

【pale】涉及的金额与每年花在研究上的费用相比就没什么了。

The Shinto religion, which must not be called in question even by university professors, involves history just as dubious as Genesis; the Dayton trial pales into insignificance beside the theological tyranny in Japan.

甚至连大学教授也不能质疑的神道教涉及的历史就像创世记一样可疑； 与日本的神学暴政相比， 代顿审判显得微不足道。

It has only snowed in our part of Surrey once since Freddie was born and that light dusting paled into insignificance when compared with the deep drifts and spectacular, snowy pine forests of northern Finland.

自从 Freddie 出生以来， 我们萨里郡只下过一次雪， 与芬兰北部的深雪和壮观的白雪皑皑的松树林相比， 这种轻微的灰尘显得微不足道。