莱文在一份声明中说：“玩拼图游戏的孩子在评估他们旋转和平移形状能力的任务上比不玩拼图的孩子表现更好。”
"The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate and translate shapes," Levine said in a statement.
《科学美国人》上的一篇文章指出，实证研究表明，事实上你认为自己比实际的你更美。
An article in Scientific American has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you're more beautiful than you are.
网上和电视上都有很多关于烹饪的信息。现在年轻人在家做饭的次数比老一辈少。
Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
一项新的研究表明，不同于以往的绝大多数调查，人们在家时的压力实际上比工作时的压力更大。
A new study suggests that contrary to most previous surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work.
一项新的研究表明，不同于以往的绝大多数调查，人们在家时的压力实际上比在工作时的压力更大。
A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work.
有些人走到了外面，并声称卢森堡的雷声实际上比真正的雷声要好。
Some people went outside, and they claimed Loutherbourg's thunder was actually better than the real thunder.
事实上，北极海冰的融化速度比预期的要快。
Indeed, sea-ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.
麦当劳的沃尔特·里克声称，其菜单上的更改意味着它提供的食品比几年前更加健康。
Walt Riker of McDonald's claims the change it has made in its menu means it offers more healthy items than it did a few years ago.
那是因为格陵兰岛大部分地区都覆盖着大量的冰。冰层比世界上最高的建筑还要高。
That is because most of Greenland is covered with lots of ice. The ice is higher than the world's tallest building.
由于他的工作，埃比斯梅尔已经成为众所周知的对任何在海洋上漂着的不寻常的物体提出问题的科学家。
As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean.
有人提出，在给定的产量水平上，能否得出这样的结论：达美航空现在的业务消耗的化石燃料比以前要少。
The question has been raised whether it can be concluded that for a given level of output, Delta's operation now causes less fossil fuel to be consumed than it did formerly.
那是一种比从架子上取下每个盒子并打开它更快的检查成熟度的方法。
That's got to be a quicker way to check for ripeness than taking each box off the shelf and opening it.
我们中的许多人，就像施瓦茨一样，很难把精力集中在那些比发布状态更新更需要注意力的任务上。
Many of us, like Schwartz, struggle to stay focused on tasks that require more concentration than it takes to post a status update.
例如，过度砍伐森林的国家实际上比那些保护森林的国家的国民生产总值更高。
According to GNP, for example, countries that overcut forests actually do better than those that preserve their forests.
你可以把丹·布朗的最新小说下载到你的Kindle 上，所用时间甚至比忘掉内容需要的时间更短。
You can download the latest Dan Brown novel to your Kindle in even less time than it takes to forget the content.
事实上，覆盖在北极的海中的冰正在以比预期更快的速度融化。
Indeed, sea ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.
对于越来越多的孩子来说，为了追求一张大学文凭而额外花费在学习上的时间和金钱会使他们的情况变得比踏入校园前更糟。
For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus.
马可尼也许不是那个时代最伟大的发明家，但他从根本上改变了我们的沟通方式，在这一点上他比任何人都伟大。
Marconi may not have been the greatest inventor of his time, but more than anyone else, he brought about a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.
如果早期的太阳比现在的太阳暗淡，也没有现在这么炙热的话，那么液态水就不可能在这两个星球上存在。
If the young Sun was much fainter and cooler than the Sun today, liquid water couldn't have existed on either planet.
事实上，20世纪70年代的实际福利水平比20世纪40年代的要低，而且在大多数州，四口之家的最高福利都低于贫困线。
In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four.
事实上，嗅觉的使用比一般认为的要频繁得多。
As a matter of fact, the sense of smell is used much more frequently than generally assumed.
当你复习的时候，这些打印资料也比显示器上的更便于阅读。
These printouts are also easier to read than the screen when you work on revisions.
在学习上，一个勤奋的傻瓜比一个懒惰的聪明人得到更多。
In learning, a hard-working fool gets more than a lazy wise.
这些账单上的小费比没有信息的账单上的小费平均高出3个百分点。
Tips on these bills were an average of three percentage points higher than tips on bills without the message.
我父母花在我和妹妹教育上的钱比花在买房子上的钱还要多，而且他们并不是唯一这样做的父母。
My parents spent more educating my sister and me than they spent on their house, and they're not the only ones.
读过科学家的奋斗经历（无论是个人的还是智力上的）的学生比读过成就的学生成绩更高。
The students who had read about scientists' struggles, whether personal or intellectual, had higher grades than students who had read about achievements.
罗伊登说，这个地区在地质上极其不寻常，因为在东部的四川盆地和西部的托比坦高原之间的边界上有非常陡峭的斜坡。
The region is extremely unusual geologically, Royden says, because of the very steep slopes at the boundary between the Sichuan Basin to the east and the Tobetan plateau to the west.
因此，很明显，保险公司在Greatport 的碰撞损害保险上比在Fairmont 获得了更多的利润。
Clearly, therefore, insurance companies are making a greater profit on collision-damage insurance in Greatport than in Fairmont.
ECC 的施工成本比标准混凝土高得多，所以从经济上讲你们的建议可能不合理。
Construction costs for ECC are much higher than for standard concrete, so your proposal is probably not justifiable on economic grounds.
伊斯兰堡的一个组织报告说，巴基斯坦在教育上的花费比南亚任何国家都要少。
A group in Islamabad reports Pakistan spends less on education than any other country in South Asia.
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