0 a small spot or stain -- แต้ม; จุดด่าง
a speck of ink.
1 a tiny piece (eg of dust). -- ชิ้นส่วนเล็ก ๆ
If a small speck of that dust gets into people's lungs, they are finished.
It is easy to see the speck in your brother's eye, but not so easy to see the plank in your own.
It can be a speck of dandruff on a shoulder of an official or some minor hair out of place.
Such a speck would fit on the head of a matchstick, but over time that is enough to cause serious lead poisoning.
These lofty souls with microscopic eyes can see the smallest speck of this campaign, but they can see no goodness outside of it.
Yet a week later the police found this minute speck of something on some gloves that were in a drawer.
To tell the truth, most appeared to be spending more time admiring their own reflections in the shining barrels than removing specks of polish or grime.
Most of this material is clear or very translucent, but its banding is much fainter, often with alignments of very small specks of somewhat darker material.
