他追踪找到了他的堂兄和叔叔。后者病了。
他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。
They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.
“别怕。”后者对他的主人说。
坦白来讲，比起后者，我更喜欢前者。
我更喜欢后者，因为我觉得它更方便，更便宜。
I prefer the latter, because I feel that it's much more convenient and cheaper.
后者是19世纪吸引移民到美国的一个重要因素。
The latter was an important factor in attracting settlers to the United States during the 19th century.
后者尤为重要。
以被挽救的生命来衡量，后者几乎必定是更好的选择。
Measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better course.
假设杰瑞和珍妮特结婚了，后者是大学毕业生，还有工作。
Suppose that Jerry marries Jeannette who is a college graduate and is working.
这表明，他们在真相和谎言之间做出了选择，最终选择了后者。
This suggests that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and ultimately opting for the latter.
该项目原本设定在美国宇航局的航天飞机任务后，后者将于9月结束。
The programme was set to follow the U.S. space agency's shuttle missions, which are due to end in September.
馒头热量低，只相当于后者的70%，而且脂肪和碳水化合物比米饭更低。
Steamed dumpling contains low calorie, equivalent to only 70% of the latter, and lower fat and carbohydrate than rice.
如果是后者，就没有必要走极端，买最大剂量的大药片或最昂贵的瓶瓶罐罐。
If the latter, there's no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse pills or the most expensive bottles.
一些业内人士显然不想购买氟氯化碳替代品，因为后者的价格是氟氯化碳的5倍。
Some in the industry apparently do not want to pay for CFC substitutes, which can run five times the cost of CFC's.
后者是一位艺术和文学评论家，他最终认识到，摄影图像不仅能提供信息，还能激发灵感。
The latter, an art and literary critic, who eventually recognised that camera images could be inspired as well as informative.
Abbot H·Thayer 曾提出，这种渐变抹杀了实体性外观，后者是影子导致的。
Abbot H.Thayer has suggested that this gradation obliterates the appearance of solidity, which is due to shadow.
前者提供了更多的刺激和便利，而后者提供了一个更干净、更安静、通常也更友好的居住环境。
The former offers more excitement and convenience while the latter offers a cleaner, quieter and often friendlier place to live.
星巴克已将“西雅图最佳”牌咖啡的销售权卖给了汉堡王，后者将在今年晚些时候开售这种咖啡。
Starbucks has sold rights to its Seattle's Best coffee brand to Burger King, which will start selling it later this year.
如果前者较大，这个湖就是一个以表层水为主的湖泊；如果是后者，则是一个以渗漏为主的湖泊。
If the former are greater, the lake is a surface-water-dominated lake; if the latter, it is a seepage-dominated lake.
到目前为止，它只帮助了中产阶级，而没有帮助庞大的下层阶级，后者仍然面临恐吓和暴力的风险。
So far, it's helped only the middle class, not the massive underclass, which remains at risk of intimidation and violence.
施普林格集团已经一纸诉状将《每日新闻》告上法庭，控告后者发起的修改路名之举过于劳民伤财。
The Springer Group has filed a lawsuit in the Daily News, accusing the latter of initiating a road name change that was too labor-intensive and costly.
不久之后，她嫁给了菲利普·格雷厄姆，后者接替了他岳父的职位，成为《华盛顿邮报》的出版人。
She married Philip Graham who took over his father-in-law's position shortly after and became publisher of The Washington Post.
医院教学的原因从防止孩子落后和保持学校的习惯到让孩子被占着，而后者往往是老师所能做的事情。
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do.
好的政治可能是不道德的，事实上，由于一种奇怪的宿命，当道德和政治发生冲突时，后者通常占上风。
What is good politics may be bad morals, and in fact, by a strange fatality, where morals and politics clash, the latter generally gets the upper hand.
这位州长有相当多的政治才能，但作为一名发言人，他远不如他的对手娴熟，后者的演讲技巧令人惊叹。
The governor has considerable political talents, but as a speaker, he is far less adroit than his opponent, whose oratorical skills are breathtaking.
后者往往还是以“社会责任方式”为主要思路，因此似乎更倾向于风险较大、吸引力较一般投资标准低的交易。
The latter often still think mainly in terms of the "social responsibility approach" and thus seem to prefer deals that are riskier and less attractive than normal investment criteria would warrant.
该公司是广为人知的个人电脑领域的技术落后者。
The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena.
该外科小组的一名成员把此事泄露给一个同行医生，而后者转而又将此透露给了一位记者。
One of the members of the surgical team leaked the story to a fellow physician who, in turn, confided in a reporter.
该外科小组的一名成员把此事泄露给一个同行医生，而后者转而又将此透露给了一位记者。
One of the members of the surgical team leaked the story to a fellow physician who, in turn, confided in a reporter.
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