Many have been attempting to conserve water by irrigating less frequently or by switching to crops that require less water.
许多人试图通过减少灌溉频率或改种需水量更少的作物来节约用水。
As time went by we saw less and less of each other.
随着时间的推移，我们见面越来越少。
These standards attempt to solve XML-encoding problems by defining binary-based messages that consume less bandwidth, are faster, and require less memory to be processed.
这些标准尝试通过定义消耗更少带宽、更加快速且需要更少内存的基于二进制的消息来解决XML编码的问题。
You can fix this by defining a few simple rules from which to reduce the amount of noise, such as removing all words of three letters or less and removing any words with a frequency of 3 or less.
可以通过定义一些简单的规则来解决这个问题，这些规则用于降低干扰，比如说去除所有三个字母以内的单词以及去除频率在3以内的单词。
There are also many benefits to being a minimalist such as reducing your impact on the environment by buying less, using less and being more efficient with your energy usage.
成为一个极简主义者有很多好处，如通过买更少的东西，用更少的东西来减少你对环境的影响，能源使用的更有效。
But try to have less downside exposure by building more slack into your system through redundancy, more insurance, more cash, and less leverage.
但是要试减少风险暴露，通过生产过剩、增加保险、增加现金，减少财务杠杆。
The increase in work outside the home was offset by less housework and less spare time and less sleep.
工作时间的增加被较少的家务、休闲和睡眠时间抵消了。
By definition, mutual funds have less freedom than hedge funds, so there is less scope for hedge-style mutual funds to earn outsize returns.
就本身而言，共同基金比对冲基金自由度低，因而对冲型的共同基金获得高额回报的机会也较少。
Step 3: eat less iron by eating less meat and iron-fortified foods.
第3步：少吃肉和铁强化食品来减少铁摄入量。
Tasked with improving the nation's air transportation, NASA wants airplanes to burn 40 percent less fuel than a 777 by 2020 and 70 percent less by 2030.
为了提升航空运输，美国国家宇航局希望在2020年前，飞机能比现有“777”号减少40%燃油；并在2030年，减少70%。
By contrast, even the most efficient power plants are less than 60 percent efficient (and some coal plants are less than 40 percent efficient).
相比之下，即使热效率最高的发电厂的热效率还不到60%(有些燃煤发电厂还不到40%)。
The insects also produce 300 times less nitrous oxide, also a warming gas, and much less ammonia, a pollutant produced by pig and poultry farming.
昆虫制造出的一氧化氮比猪和家禽少300倍，制造的温室气体、氨气也要少很多。
We are less shocked by prevailing assumptions, less prone to absolute assertions.
我们越来越少的被盲目流行的观点所震惊，越来越不倾向作出绝对的断言。
For convenience, should should view large files with less, as in less /etc/passwd (you can learn more about less by typing man less).
为方便起见，您应该用less查看大文件，如在 less /etc/passwd 中那样（您可以通过输入man less学习更多关于 less 的知识）。
And since Medicare pays by procedure, test, and hospital stay-though less and less each year as the cost squeeze tightens-there is an incentive to do more and more.
而且，既然医保按手续、检查和住院时间支付费用(尽管随着费用紧张加剧，每年越来越少)，那么就存在做越来越多的程序和检查的诱因。
The less we spend disciplining and counseling our children the less they will feel loved by us.
我们越少的教导和关心我们的孩子，他们越觉得我们不够爱他们。
Social factors. One classic segmentation is by income and occupation, but this is proving to be less and less useful.
通过收入和职业划分曾经是一个经典的市场细分，但是这种划分已经变得不那么有用。
It also distorts less than conventional body armour when it is hit. That means it is less likely to cause serious injury by deflecting inward.
此外，和传统防弹衣相比，受攻击时它也较少变形，这样就可能避免因防弹衣向内变形而给人体造成严重伤害。
In my work with mock juries, we found that attorneys, or for that matter witnesses, that hide their hands are perceived as less open and less honest by the jurors.
在和模拟陪审团一起工作时发现，如果律师或事件的目击者把手藏起来，陪审员就会觉得他们不坦率，不真诚。
Carbon dating works by comparing the amount of carbon 14, which is a less common and less stable form of carbon, to the more abundant carbon 12.
碳的年代测定工作是将碳14(碳处于这种状态并不常见，也不稳定)与碳12(碳的常见状态)的含量进行对比。
You might have a whole generation of people whose parents were affected by AIDS who are less educated and in turn are less able to educate their children.
可能会出现这样整整一代人，他们由于父母感染了艾滋病而没有受到足够的教育，并因此没有足够的能力来教育他们的子女。
Studies show that consumers in Anglo-Saxon economies cut their spending by less when they suffer temporary shocks to their income than those in countries with less sophisticated financial systems.
研究显示，与那些金融市场欠发达的国家相比，盎格鲁-萨克逊经济中的消费者在面对收入的暂时性冲击时削减支出的幅度要更小。
Okay I have put it slightly differently this week; you remember last week I got in trouble by phrasing it more or less because we don't want the premises to be less probable than the conclusion do we?
我这周稍微变化一下，你们记得上周，我说或多或少的时候遇到了一点问题，因为我们不想前提变得比，结论更不可能，是吗？
Items at the top of top of the list are avoided by doing seemingly less difficult and less important tasks further down the list — making the procrastinator highly productive.
避开在列表最上面的待办事项，先做那些看起来简单点、不那么重要的事情，这样使得“拖沓”也变得有成效些了。
For instance, despite severe snow storms and weaker net exports, first-quarter GDP growth slowed by less than expected and by much less than did industrial production.
例如，尽管由于大雪灾和净出口下降，更重要的是由于工业产量下滑，第一季度GDP增长低于预期。
These tend to be both less productive than jobs in bigger companies and less protected by the law.
这样生产能力较之大公司降低了，涉及法律保护的范围也更小了。
The increase in work outside the home was offset by less housework-and less spare time and less sleep.
工作时间的增加被较少的家务、休闲和睡眠时间抵消了。
On large expanses of land, big animals do best, because they are less vulnerable to cold and less likely to be attacked by predators.
在面积宽阔的陆地上，体型大的哺乳动物生存地最好，因为和体积小的动物相比，他们更少受寒冷伤害，被食肉动物袭击的机率也小。
Banks are less able to lend because their capital has been depleted by bad loans, or less willing because customers can't meet tighter underwriting standards.
银行因为不良贷款造成资本亏空，放贷能力大不如前。再有，因为贷款手续更加严格，顾客无法满足，因此银行也不如从前一样愿意放贷。
Banks are less able to lend because their capital has been depleted by bad loans, or less willing because customers can't meet tighter underwriting standards.
银行因为不良贷款造成资本亏空，放贷能力大不如前。再有，因为贷款手续更加严格，顾客无法满足，因此银行也不如从前一样愿意放贷。
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