He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than 2 weeks before he takes office.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone there were 10,000 less shoemakers than there had been before.

然而,一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查,就少了一万名鞋匠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Sometimes it even makes her less happy than she was before.

有时这研究让她比以前更不快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

So we can have our two hydrogen atoms come in here, and what we will find is - now that we have all of our orbitals filled up -- so thinking about what this angle is here, would you expect it to be less than or greater than what we saw for ammonia before?

我们在这里有两个氢原子，我们会发现,现在我们所有的轨道都填满了-,考虑一下这里的角度，你们觉得它比在氨中看到的,要大还是要小？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Now, less than is just, if you haven't used it before, it's just the operator you'd expect, it's comparing two things and it's going to return either true or false depending on whether the first argument is false less than the second argument.

现在，小于这个符号是，如果你之前没用过它的话，它就是你期望的那个运算符，它会比较两个独享,然后基于第一个参数是不是,小于第二个参数,返回true或者。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He received a new liver less than two years before winning a snowboarding bronze medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

I'm doing a test there to say, x if the string x is less than the value of b, and x does not appear before b as strings, then I was going to do, oh, a couple of things, because they're at the same block level.

我正在做一个测试来看看，字符串,是不是小于b的值，而且x不在b之前作为字符串出现，如果是真的话我就要做，一系列的操作，因为他们是在同一个块等级上。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The president spoke in Pittsburgh, less than an hour before deliberations resumed at the G20 economic summit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14