Although the climate remained as unpredictable as ever between one year and the next, it became much less locally diverse.
尽管在这一年到下一年之间，气候仍然像以往一样难以预测，但当地的多样性已经大大减少。
A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.
去年发表在《美国临床营养学期刊》上的一项研究发现，睡眠多的人比他们睡眠较少的同龄人更少吃不健康的食品。
As is often the case with human beings, many animals sleep a lot when young, but sleep much less when they get older.
和人类一样，许多动物年幼时睡得多，但长大后睡少了很多。
Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.
教育程度较低的父母、较穷的父母、黑人和拉美裔父母更可能认为：对孩子的教育而言，没有所谓的过分干预。
It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought.
在地铁或公共汽车上，一个身强力壮的男学生在冲向最后一个座位时，用胳膊肘把老妇人推到一边，这算不了什么，更不用说他本应站起来给她让座了。
As a result of this and also of the fact that workers' jobs were generally much less secure, distinct differences in life-styles and attitudes came into existence.
由于这一点，以及工人的工作普遍不太稳定这一事实，生活方式和态度出现了明显的差异。
They found that the aircraft consumed as much as 15% less fuel (coupled with a reduction in carbon dioxide output).
他们发现，飞机消耗的燃料减少了15%（同时二氧化碳排放量也减少了）。
One day, he gave up his job and moved to a ranch in Texas, making much less money as a cowboy.
有一天，他辞了职，搬到德克萨斯州的一个牧场，当牛仔赚的钱少了很多。
Copied books are as good as copyrighted ones, but they don't cost much, usually less than half the price.
复印书和正版书一样好，但它们的成本并不高，通常不到一半的价格。
To be on the safe side, the researchers suggest that we should use computers less than before, or turn down our screens as much as possible before sleeping.
安全起见，研究人员建议，我们应该比以前更少使用电脑，或者在睡觉前尽可能地把屏幕亮度调低。
So we play out this charade of happy families and most of the time life trundles along much as before, more or less happily.
因此我们维持着这字谜般的快乐家庭，大部分时候生活与以前没什么不同地——多多少少快乐地—— 向前滚动着。
The analysis shows that losses in rents would be much less than is commonly expected, as high production costs eat up much of the potential benefit from preferential access to the high-price markets.
分析表明，租金损失会比普遍预期的要少得多，因为高生产成本吞噬了对高价格市场的优惠准入可能带来的大部分收益。
This doesn't affect the file size as much but requires less memory for the user agent to decompress the image into a pixel map.
这虽然不大会增加文件大小但对于用户代理来说它需要更少的内存来把图片解压为像素地图。
You'll think you're eating as much as before, but in fact you're eating less.
你会觉得你吃的像以前一样多，但其实你的食量已经减小了。
Females fart just as much as males, though on the whole less extravagantly.
尽管从整体而言女性放屁较少，但实际上女性放的屁其实跟男性一样多。
He says the pressure is now much less than during his 10 years as prime minister.
他表示现在的压力比他作为首相的十年间的压力要小的多。
But if the progressive proposal has all these virtues, why isn't it getting anywhere near as much attention as the much less serious Ryan proposal?
然而，既然这份进步提案具有那么多的好处，为什么它得到的关注并不比那份认真负责程度很低的瑞安提案多多少？
Their metabolism remained high despite being less hungry and not eating as much as normal mice.
虽然吃的不像正常老鼠那么多，也不那么饥饿，这些老鼠的新陈代谢依然旺盛。
As a thought exercise, co-evolution has been around for less than a decade, or as much as 30 years, depending on who you ask.
作为一种思潮，联合进化理论已经出现了至少十年，或者将近30年——这基于你向谁提出这个问题。
However it is much less divisive than before as this generation of fathers (under 40) are much more involved with their children.
然而，由于这一代父亲(小于40岁)更多地照看孩子，这样反而更不会引起夫妻不和。
A side benefit of this practice can be a much less expensive solution as well.
这种实践的附带好处就是可以显著地降低解决方案的成本。
As a result, small businesses are much less likely to offer health insurance.
结果这些小企业提供健康保险的可能性明显降低。
Waterfall development processes are much less flexible and don't provide as many early warnings of high risk.
瀑布式的开发过程有很少的灵活性，并且不会为你提供高风险的很多早期警告。
Second, NATO as a whole will count for much less.
其次，北约作为一个整体的重要性将大为降低。
Tests express that understanding in a much less ambiguous form, as code that executes reliably and repeatedly.
测试以更明确的方式表述这种理解，并以可靠和重复执行的代码加以表示。
They’re a little less efficient, but cost a quarter as much to produce.
这种电池效率不是太高，但是制造成本仅为后者的四分之一。
Lamentably, rich creditor countries, such as Germany, are doing much less.
可悲的是，那些富裕的债权国，比如德国，却做得很少。
Rich countries use less than half as much oil as they did in 1970 for each inflation-adjusted dollar of GDP.
由通胀调整后的以美金计算GDP中，富裕国家所使用的石油还不到1970年代的一半。
Roughly speaking, it costs less than half as much to travel today and nearly three times as many people are traveling.
大致说来，如今人们乘飞机出行的费用是从前的一半不到，而如今的乘客人数则是过去的近三倍。
Roughly speaking, it costs less than half as much to travel today and nearly three times as many people are traveling.
大致说来，如今人们乘飞机出行的费用是从前的一半不到，而如今的乘客人数则是过去的近三倍。
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