In your private household, you would surely prefer to pay less for more rather than the other way around, yet that would be termed an "unfavorable balance of payments" in foreign trade.
从个人角度看，你当然是喜欢付出更少，得到更多了，但这种行为在自由贸易中会被冠以“国际收支逆差”的大帽子。
Most said students should spend less time memorizing facts and have more space for creative activities.
大多数人认为学生应该少花时间记忆事实，给创造性活动更多的空间。
And, while there's evidence that instructors must work harder to run a DL course for a variety of reasons, they won't be paid any more, and might well be paid less.
而且，虽然有证据表明，由于各种原因，教师必须更加努力地学习以开设一门DL课程，但他们不会得到更多的报酬，而且很可能得到的报酬更少。
In recent years, there is a growing tendency for people to shop online, and most people more or less have the experience of shopping online.
近年来，网购有增长趋势，大多数人或多或少都有过网上购物的经历。
Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste.
对于其它作物，相似的改进把人们从艰难又枯燥的工作中解放出来，可以做更多创造性的工作，同时机器收割庄稼的效率更高，浪费更少。
Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to examine, but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes.
通常，一百个样本要花费实验技术员超过两天的时间来检测，但是一只老鼠只需要花费不到二十分钟。
At the moment, we don't have exact numbers of guests and though we usually only cater for groups of less than fifty, we will have quite a few more than that.
目前我们没有确切的客人人数。虽然我们通常只接待50人以下的团体，但我们这次将迎来更多的客人。
Species with similar DNA sequences for these genes are generally more closely related to each other than to species with less-similar DNA sequences.
与DNA序列不太相似的物种相比，这些基因的 DNA 序列相似的物种之间的关系通常更密切。
Broadly, the 2016—2020 dietary recommendations aim for balance: more vegetables, leaner meats and far less sugar.
总体而言，2016-2020年的饮食建议主要针对膳食平衡，即多吃蔬菜和瘦肉，少吃糖。
Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy.
也许对于护理行业，尤其是医学行业，在选拔时应该少考虑化学方面的好成绩，多考虑善解人意和同情心之类的因素。
That's why environmental critics are calling instead for reductions in global livestock production, and urging people to consume less, not more, meat in their diets.
这就是为什么环境评论家反而呼吁减少全球牲畜生产，并敦促人们减少而不是增加他们饮食中的肉类消耗。
Thus our bodies continuously exchange old substance for new, just like a spring which more or less maintains its form and movement, but in which the water molecules are always different.
因此，我们的身体不断地把旧物质替换成新的，就像一个喷泉，或多或少地保持着它的形式和运动，但其中的水分子总是不同的。
With less energy produced in warmer years and more being consumed just to survive, there is even less energy available for growth.
随着气候变暖时产生的能源的减少以及生存消耗的能源的增加，可用于生长的能源就变得更少了。
Men not only cry for shorter periods than women, but they also are less inclined to explain their tears, usually shed them more quietly, and tend more frequently to apologize when they cry openly.
男人不仅比女人哭的时间短，而且也不太愿意解释自己的眼泪，通常他们会更安静地流泪，如果对外哭泣，往往是道歉的时候。
If it has its own IP address, we can use the access point itself over the network; this is less secure, but more fun to use for a demo.
如果它有自己的IP地址，那么我们就可以在网络上使用接入点本身了；这样做的安全性要差一些，但在用于演示方面会更有趣。
In 1985, after the National Literacy Crusade had ended, the infant mortality figures for those who remained illiterate and for those educated in primary school remained more or less unchanged.
1985年，在全国扫盲运动结束后，那些仍处于文盲状态的妇女和接受过小学教育的妇女生出来的的婴儿的死亡率基本没有变化。
It is a basic ability for humans to tell more from less.
辨别数量多少是人类的一种基本能力。
Scientists have found that people who sleep for less than 6 hours and a half at night are more often ill than people who sleep for 8 hours.
科学家发现，晚上睡眠少于6个半小时的人比多于8小时的人更容易生病。
The study also found that someone who is humble is more likely to initiate a romantic relationship, perhaps because they are less likely to see themselves as "too good" for someone else.
研究还发现，谦虚的人更有可能开始一段恋情，也许是因为他们不太可能“自视过高”从而认为别人高攀不上。
Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed work for a consultancy, Deloitte, that is determined to turn itself into more of a thought-leader and less a corporate repairman.
MichaelRaynor和MumtazAhmed 就职于一家名为 Deloitte 的咨询公司，这家公司决心将自己转变成更像一个思想领袖，而不是一个企业修理工。
Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.
仅仅是在小学的一年里有一位优秀的老师，就会让学生们在青少年时期成为母亲的可能性降低一些，而上大学和在28岁时赚更多钱的可能性增加一些。
Less is more: less fear, anger and revenge will definitely make room for something else.
更少既是更多：更少的恐惧愤怒和报复一定会为其他事腾出空间。
Less is more. That's the test for a consumer age.
少即是多，这已为消费者时代所验证。
Ports could charge more efficient ships less for their services.
码头能够对那些更高效的船舶少收取管理费；
The more you master the craft of doing more for less, the more secure you’ll be in the coming months.
你越熟练掌握为少数顾客提供更多服务的诀窍，你在即将到来的坏年景中就越安全。
Might the prospects be less bleak for more prolific species with shorter generation times?
那么事情对于那些繁殖能力更强，族代更迭更短的生物来说会不会好点呢？
Less is more for me and I try to keep only things I need.
对于我来说少即是多，我试着只保留我需要的东西。
Generally, Playboy pays more for less clothing.
一般来说，在《花花公子》上是穿得越少挣得越多。
Unfortunately, the same properties which make these tools good for creating document-centered content cause them to be less useful for more data-centered works such as hCalendar.
遗憾的是，那些使这两种工具在创建以文档为中心的内容方面获得成功的特性，对于更加面向数据的工作比如hcalendar却毫无帮助。
Why do that, when I can get more boots for less money!? ", I reasoned."
“为什么我要买贵的呢，我能用更少的钱买更多的靴子呀！ ？”，我为自己辩解。
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