When I was a young coach football was more localised and less global.
当我还是个年轻教练的时候，足球更多是一项本地化的运动，而不像现在那样的全球化。
A stronger dollar has also taken pressure off import prices. And a slower global economy means less global demand.
此外，美元走强缓解了进口价格的压力，全球经济减速则意味着全球需求的下降。
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。
For example. the language and polls expert Frank Luntz wrote a memo encouraging the use of "climate change" because the phrase sounded less scary than "global warming," reported the Guardian.
例如，据《卫报》报道，语言和民调专家弗兰克·伦茨写了一份备忘录，鼓励使用“气候变化”这个词，因为这个词听起来没有“全球变暖”那么可怕。
Most of the science of climate change, particularly that to do with global warming, is simply fact. But other aspects of the science are less certain or at least more disputed.
大多数关于气候变化的科学，尤其是有关全球变暖的科学，都只是事实。但其他方面的科学就不那么确定了，或者至少争议更大。
Most of the science of climate change, particularly that to do with global warming, is simply a fact. But other aspects of the science are less certain or at least more disputed.
大多数关于气候变化的科学，尤其是有关全球变暖的科学，都只是事实。但科学的其他方面就不那么确定无疑了，或者至少争议更大。
The cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
我们预计每年用于拯救文明的开支合计不到2000亿美元，相当于目前全球军费开支的六分之一。
Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
然而，我们预计每年用于拯救文明的开支合计不到2000亿美元，相当于目前全球军费开支的六分之一。
The rub is, if the vast majority of people increasingly agree that climate change is a global emergency, there's far less agreement on how to fix it.
问题是，如果绝大多数人越来越认同气候变化是一个全球性的紧急事件，那么在如何解决这个问题上就没有那么多的共识了。
The global economic downturn has caused a reduction in passenger numbers while those that are traveling generally have less money to spend.
全球经济衰退导致乘客数量减少；与此同时，那些经常旅行的人也没有那么多钱可以花了。
What Washington does—or doesn't do—to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.
在这个全球思维都在转变的时代，华盛顿在推动可替代能源发展方面作为或是不作为，其影响越来越小。
Greece is expected to hold up better because it is less exposed to the global economy (" a good thing for a bad reason, "notes one policymaker).
预期希腊将有较好表现，因为其与全球经济接触较少(“错误的理由，正确的时间”一个决策者指出。)
Here's yet another reason to stay in shape: Thinner people contribute less to global warming, according to a new study.
你恐怕想不到瘦身还有一个更加“崇高”的理由：最新研究表明，瘦人对全球变暖的“贡献”要少得多。
China accounts for less than 2% of the global sales of drugs giants such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Bayer, estimates IMS, another research firm.
另外一家研究机构IMS估计，诸如辉瑞，阿斯利康和拜耳的制药巨头，在华销售量仅占其全球销售量的2%。
And Hollywood is less ashamed of its role as global storyteller than it used to be.
而好莱坞对其扮演的全球说书人一角，不像过去那么羞愧了。
The gathering unease has left global investors less willing to tolerate the risks associated with volatile emerging economies.
积虑日深，全球投资者不大愿意忍受违约的风险还有新兴市场的上跳下窜。
In essence, the 'bad bank' discount that investors once could count on when Chinese Banks were a less-tested commodity in global markets is gone.
从根本上说，以往中资银行在全球市场中是种缺乏检验的商品，投资者还曾指望所谓“不良”银行的折价，但现在这种情形一去不复返了。
Though it doesn't help much, Portugal's already slow growth also made it less vulnerable to the global recession.
虽然这对经济没多大帮助，但葡萄牙已经疲软的经济增长使得它在全球经济危机中显得不那么脆弱。
Eventually such clumsy responses may make countries approach things narrowly and nationalistically, creating more global instability and less peace and prosperity.
最终这些笨拙的反应可能使得各国狭隘地、国家主义地追求一些东西，而引起全球更不稳定、更不和平、更不繁荣。
That would mark a total increase in global demand of less than 1% from 2007.
也就是说，全球需求的增长仍然比2007年低1%。
But even at that rate of growth, the funds will probably still account for less than 3% of global traded securities.
不过，即使按照如此的增长速率，这些基金可能在那时的全球可交易证券中依旧只占不到3%。
While currently less than 0.04% of global energy production comes from solar panels, the popularity of solar energy is increasing.
虽然目前全球能源只有不到0.04%来自太阳能电池板，但太阳能的普及程度正在提高。
Current production of hearing AIDS meets less than 10% of global need.
目前生产的助听器只能满足不到10%的全球需求。
But he argues that the cost of this insurance will make London less competitive as a global financial centre.
但他认为，这种保障的代价是使得伦敦作为一个国际金融中心竞争力降低。
Customers are less loyal, and global competition more fierce, making it difficult to predict where sales are going.
忠诚的客户越来越少，全球竞争日益激烈，这些因素让销售额更加难以预测。
This will help to hold down global prices-although possibly by less than in the past.
这也将有助于抑制全球价格的上升——尽管可能不可能像从前那样。
This will help to hold down global prices-although possibly by less than in the past.
这也将有助于抑制全球价格的上升——尽管可能不可能像从前那样。
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