In Mississippi, where centers must hire one teacher for every five infants, the price of care averaged less than $5,000.
在密西西比州,中心必须为每五个婴儿聘请一名教师,护理费用平均不到5000美元。
In this environment, whether annual health care costs rise or fall by 1% or even 5% is irrelevant - all we do is move the day of reckoning less than 1 year closer or farther away.
在这种环境下,无论是每年的卫生保健费用上升或下降1%甚至5%都是无关紧要的-我们所能做的便是变动计算天数不到1年或更远一点。
I also know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend far less on medical care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have.
我也知道在日本和瑞典这些医疗开销少得多的国家里,人们获得了比我们更长的寿命和更健康的生活。
Within such countries, less than half of mothers and newborns receive care, but by no means the full range of what they need.
在这些国家内,不足半数的母亲和新生儿获得照护,而且不是她们需要的全部照护。
They say cats need less care than dogs.
他们指出猫需要的照顾比狗少。
At twenty-eight I care less about what others think of my hairstyle and my clothes than I did at eighteen.
在二十八岁时,我比在十八岁时更少的在意别人对我的发型着装的看法。
Some have sidewalks (sorry, pavements), most don't and drivers seem to care a little less about pedestrians here than they did out west.
有些道路上有人行道,但大部分道路没有。这里的司机比起西部来,对行人的关照更少一点。
People in America are less healthy and die sooner than in Britain, which proportionately spends little more than half as much on its health care.
美国人不如英国人健康也不如他们活得长,而按比例算,英国人的医保支出只相当于美国人的一半略多。
Striving for wealth and power is less likely to bring about happiness and meaning in life than working hard to care for other people and developing intimate bonds.
然而,努力获取财富和权力,却不如努力关心他人、结交亲密的朋友那样能够给人带来幸福和人生的意义。
I also know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spent far less on medical care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have.
我也深知在医疗开销少得多的日本和瑞典,人们获得了比我们更长的、更健康的寿命。
The Japanese also spend rather less on their health care than most rich countries-around 8% of gdp-particularly profligate America.
日本人在保健方面的花费也大大低于很多富裕国家(约占GDP的8%),与挥霍浪费的美国人相比差距尤甚。
The findings also revealed that workers who expected to be taken care of by their children were less likely to contribute to the formal pension system than those who didn't.
结果还发现,那些指望将来由子女照看的劳动者为正式养老金体制缴费的可能性小于没有这种指望的人。
In countries where food is plentiful, health care is universal and housing is accessible, people believe less in God than in those countries where their lives are insecure.
生活在食物富足、全民医保、没有住房困扰的国家里的人们,比那些生活得不到保障的国家里的人们,对上帝的信任程度要低一些。
And the popularity of those 99-cent thrillers suggests readers are more price-sensitive, and less quality-sensitive, than publishers care to admit.
99美分一本书这种让人激动的事广受欢迎,这也意味着读者更关心的是价钱而非书的品质,尽管出版商们不愿承认。
But I have also heard stories of infertile women whose husbands have left them or who receive less care than other women who have children with the same man.
但我也曾听说有些不孕妇女被丈夫离弃或所受关爱少于能够为同一男子生儿育女的其他妇女。
If people use less than a preset amount of care in a given year, they get a partial refund.
如果一个人一年所花保险费低于设定金额,可得到部分退款。
One obvious answer is that Americans would probably care a lot less than they do about the rest of the world.
一个明显的答案就是美国可能对于世界其他地区关注的更少。
Health care and utility stocks have been the worst performers, rising less than 1 percent for the year.
健康医疗和公用事业个股表现最糟,全年涨幅不到1%。
But many congressmen care less about the disaster avoided than the injustice of bailed-out bankers taking home record bonuses as unemployment keeps rising.
但是许多国会议员并不关心联储阻止的灾难,而更关心在失业率不断攀升的时候,那些被挽救的银行家获得了史无前例的丰厚奖金。
So this deal was far less about a vision of health care than about economic pragmatism.
所以与其说这桩并购交易是出于对健康保障的宏大理想,远不如说是出于经济上的务实考虑。
In fact, skin creams have gotten more and more expensive and less and less based on real science, the science behind skin care is simpler than most of us think.
实际上,护肤霜越来越贵而且越来越不科学,皮肤护理比我们想象的要简单得多。
The entire process usually takes less than 2 hours, including preparation time, care right after the surgery, and paperwork.
若将术前准备、术后处理以及填写书面文件的时间包括在内,整个手术过程也只需要不到2小时的时间就能完成。
Moderates are underrepresented, so citizens seeking better health care may seem less numerous than poker fans.
温和派往往未被充分代表,因此寻求更好医疗方案的公民也许看上去不如扑克迷人数多。
According to the World health Organization, China spends less than 1 percent of its GDP on health care, which ranks it 156th out of 196 nations the U.N. agency tracks.
根据世界卫生组织数据,中国投入医疗的钱不足gdp的1%,在196个国家的排名中排行第156。
I want to be an artist and an actress with integrity; I really don't care about the money, I Just want to be wonderful. She was dead less than a week later.
我想当一名正直的艺术家和演员;我真的不在乎金钱,我只求美好。
Today, depression affects about 121 million people around the world; less than 25 percent of them have access to proper care [source: World Health Organization].
今天全球范围内受抑郁症影响的人数已多达一亿两千一百万,不到25%的人能够接受合理的治疗。
Mr Smith said that research suggested that "higher-quality medical care in the United States than in England" meant people were less likely to die from chronic illnesses.
史密斯先生说,研究表明“美国高水平的医疗保健体系要比英国更胜一筹,”这也意味着美国人死于慢性疾病的人少之又少。
But Singaporeans care less about fuzzy notions of integration than their own jobs, says Chung Wai-Keung of the Singapore Management University.
但是,新加坡管理大学的Chung Wai - Keung认为,与工作问题相比,新加坡人民并不关注模糊不清的整体化概念。
But Singaporeans care less about fuzzy notions of integration than their own jobs, says Chung Wai-Keung of the Singapore Management University.
但是,新加坡管理大学的Chung Wai - Keung认为,与工作问题相比,新加坡人民并不关注模糊不清的整体化概念。
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