To make it less painful, put an ice pack on the arm.
为了减轻疼痛，在手臂上放一个冰袋。
Does that make it less dangerous or more so?
它的危险由此变小了还是更大了？
Now, can you hurry that process along and make it less bumpy?
现在，你能让这个过程加速或让它不那么地坎坷吗？
"We want to make it less explicit and more implicit," he says.
“我们希望能做到更模糊和更隐晦。”他说。
The second is to make it less painful for taxpayers when they do fail.
第二个目的就是一旦银行破产，纳税人的痛苦会减轻。
You can add more peppermint powder to make it less bitter, if you like.
您可以添加更多的薄荷粉，以减少痛苦，如果你喜欢。
Sure, it's more secure... but what options do we have to make it less annoying?
是的，这样更加安全……但是想让它不那么烦人的话我们该怎么做呢？
The first is to make it less likely that banks will fail in the next crisis.
第一个目的就是确保在下次危机来袭之时，银行破产的可能性会降低。
Any increase would have to be put onto the price and make it less competitive.
任何费用的增加都会反应到价格上，从而降低价格的竞争力。
That'd make it less like buying insurance and more like canceling a lost check.
这样就不像购买保险而更象取消丢失支票的处理办法。
The fact that the gift can be abused or perverted does not make it less of a gift.
虽然恩赐会被扭曲滥用，这是事实，却不影响它被称为“礼物”。
But, in fact, Haddad says, putting treated water back into nature can make it less clean.
但是，事实上，哈达德说，将处理过的水放回自然中会使这些水更不干净。
While making communication more frequent, they can also make it less personal and intimate.
尽管可以使通信变得更频繁，却也可能使它变得更缺乏私密性。
Passing laws that make it less costly to hire and fire workers is likely to slow its advance.
法律允许的雇佣和解雇工人的低成本也容易减缓它的迭代。
It seems like adding a layer to the application would make it less responsive, but the opposite is true.
这听起来象是往程序里面添加一个抽象层(layer)而让它更少地作出响应。但事实并不如此。
The asset may have technical defects that make it less reusable in multiple composite business services.
此资产可能有技术缺陷，使其在多个组合业务服务中的可重用性降低。
I challenge you to take another look at any design you have to see where you can slim it down or make it less complex.
我建议您再研究一下您的设计，看看是否还有可能进行瘦身或降低复杂性。
We need to expand the treatment regimen to make it less complicated and less toxic, and to tackle increasing drug resistance.
他说：“我们需要扩展治疗方案，让它更简单、更低毒，能更好地应对不断增加的耐药性。”
This will help promote individuality, and will make it less likely for children to give in to peer pressure from any one group.
这对促进孩子们的个性很有帮助，并且也使得孩子不太可能屈服于某一单一群体的压力。
If you ate the wrong foods because you found preparing healthy food too time-consuming, find ways to make it less time consuming.
如果觉得阻止你的健康饮食计划是因为需要太多时间准备食物，那就想办法缩短准备的时间。
Many readers find it to be an excellent translation for personal reading and study, though its British idioms make it less popular in the U.S.
许多读者认为它是一个优秀的译本，用于个人的阅读和研究，虽然它的英国成语，使其在美国较少流行。
New functions, IfExpr, RangeExpr, ForExpr, and so forth, make it less likely that you will need programmatic instructions to calculate a value.
ForExpr等新增加的函数大大减少了通过编程指令计算值的需要。
The wind park has been moved farther away from Nantucket island and its breadth has been reduced to make it less visible to holidaymakers there.
风电厂已被搬远，离开了楠塔基特岛，而且规模也有所缩小，以便那里度假的人们不易觉察。
Having each party initial each page of the contract will make it less likely that anyone could claim a page was changed after the contract was signed.
让双方在每页合同上签上名字的首字母(姓)，这样做可以避免有人怀疑合同签署后被更改过。
The two main aims of the new laws are to make Banks less likely to fail in the first place and, if failure is inevitable, to make it less painful for others.
这个新法律的两个主要目标旨在首先银行不能破产，如果破产不可避免，破产给市场造成的痛苦降到最低点。
The two main aims of the new laws are to make Banks less likely to fail in the first place and, if failure is inevitable, to make it less painful for others.
这个新法律的两个主要目标旨在首先银行不能破产，如果破产不可避免，破产给市场造成的痛苦降到最低点。
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