SCREAMING hordes of teenage girls are a common sight at pop concerts and film premieres. They are less usual when waiting to hear a religious preacher.
成群少女尖叫的场面常常出现在流行歌曲演唱会和电影首映式上，但在等待布道时却不怎么常见。
He was in a less jocular mood than usual.
他的情绪不像平时那么诙谐了。
The scientists were able to replicate the gene variation in a strain of mice and found that the mice needed less sleep than usual, too.
科学家能够在一种老鼠的身上复制这一基因变异，结果发现，这种老鼠需要的睡眠时间也比平常少了。
He said there was some evidence, though not conclusive, that the form of this lymphoma found in implant patients was less aggressive than the usual type.
他表示，没有确凿证据表明隆胸病人中发现的淋巴瘤比起常见类型的淋巴瘤更具杀伤性。
He is passing less urine than usual.
他小便比平时少。
When you leave your house, take less with you than usual.
出门时，携带比平时少的物品。
Rich countries are being less generous than usual.
富裕的国家变得不如往常慷慨了。
This year there has been less of the usual footage of burly men bashing small furry skulls and of blood smeared across the ice floes.
今年少了平日那些魁梧的猎人猛击海豹毛皮稀少的头部以及鲜血流淌于冰川之间的场景。
Or they compensated in another way, by moving around a lot less than usual after they got home. (Read "Run For Your Lives.")
或者，她们以另一种方式补偿自己——回家后，她们的走动比平时少得多。
It also has less internal memory, a seven-inch touch screen instead of the more usual ten-inch one, and relies on an older, less demanding version (Eclair) of the Android operating system.
而且它也有更少的内存储器，7英寸触屏而不是更通常的10英寸并且依靠一个更老的，要求较低版本(Eclair)的android操作系统。
The region has suffered from 40 to 60 percent less rainfall than usual.
这一地区的降水比常年偏少四至六成。
For four out of the past five years, there has been less ice than usual.
在过去5年中有4次哪里的冰都比正常的少。
Poverty is, of course, a highly relative concept, but the usual definition of "absolute" poverty is an income of less than $1.25 a day.
当然，贫困只是一个相对的概念，但是通常我们把“绝对”贫困的概念定义为每天的收入不足1.25美元。
The narrow streets of the marketplace may have been less crowded than usual, but most workers and business owners there said going on strike was a luxury they simply could not afford.
市场上狭窄的街道可能不像往常那么拥挤了，但是那里的大部分工人和商人说，继续进行罢工是一件奢侈的事情，因为他们罢不起工。
Rising house prices have emboldened consumers to save much less than usual.
持续上升的房价使消费者敢于比正常情况储蓄得更少。
The sudden appearance of higher-quality goods suggests that officials are being less zealous than usual in enforcing the export rules, for fear of causing job losses.
突然冒出来的高质量产品表明，官员们执行出口规则的热情与以往相比正在减少，因为担忧引发失业问题。
In contrast, the current disaster is more or less "business as usual", i.e. some cyclical adjustment, yes, but no new employment reality and added downshift to lifetime income expectations.
相比，现时的灾难大致与过往相同，比如一些周期性的调整，没错，这次没有新的就业困境，也没有缩减终生收入期望。
The hypotheses about Leos' intestines and Sagittarians' arms were less than 5% likely to have come about by chance, satisfying the usual standards of proof of a relationship.
有关狮子座的肠胃与射手座的胳膊偶尔受损的可能低于5%，因此假说符合效应关系成立的一般标准。
She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet.
她成了客厅里最漂亮的女人，她使得晚宴比范德卢顿平日那种宴会少了不少丧葬气氛。
Once inside, they found that service was slower, menu items were sold out, and the experience was generally less enjoyable than usual.
一旦进入饭店里，他们发现这里的服务缓慢，菜单上的菜品已经售罄，并且就餐体验普遍地没有通常那么令人感到愉快。
But for many firms the usual jitters are now combined with a less familiar problem: falling profitability.
但是对于许多公司来说，以往让人头疼的问题如今又掺入了一些少见的因素：收益率下降。
The genes they occurred in tended to be transcribed more than usual, not less.
由它们产生的基因往往会超出寻常的被转录。
This is less a critical position or a historical insight than a mood, induced by the usual selective comparisons and subjective hunches.
与其说这种问题带有批判的姿态亦或是深刻的历史见地，不如说是由于比较新老电影，再加上自己的主观喜好而心生的落寞之情。
As of the end of May, Dongting Lake had already shrunk to less than 45 percent of its usual surface area, according to state-run media.
据官方媒体报道，至5月底，洞庭湖的面积已不及原来的45%。
This happens because when the body is suddenly given much less food than usual.
这种现象之所以发生是因为如果供给身体的食物突然比平常减少许多。
This happens because when the body is suddenly given much less food than usual.
这种现象之所以发生是因为如果供给身体的食物突然比平常减少许多。
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