She became more and more gay and less and less tender.

她越来越快乐，而温情却一天比一天少下去。

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She is more sanguine than her compositions, but less tender and soft than her writings.

她比她的作品开朗，她的文字比她本人温柔。

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Using a higher heat setting than what the instructions say may make the steak less tender.

用太高的火力烹饪会导致牛排不够柔嫩。

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Businessmen want the government to start by putting out to tender Callao's less controversial new terminal.

ECONOMIST: A fight over privatisation

Almost 64% of voting shareholders voted to adopt majority voting which would mean that a director who receives less than a majority vote must tender a resignation to the board. (The board can then accept or reject the resignation.) The idea behind majority voting is that it would personalize corporate disputes and allow shareholders to target individual directors.

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Also last year, China's JF-17s and Russia's MiG-29s competed in a tender from Myanmar, which eventually chose the Russians, but paid less than they wanted.

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