Men who worked at night on the dam suffered less, but the heat was still as high as thirty degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Yeats is, in fact, a far less nostalgic thinker than either Eliot or Pound, at least as I understand them.

其实叶芝不如,艾略特或庞德那么怀旧，至少我是这么理解的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

or wanting less of something as well.

或是要得少的想法。

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Women who said they were physically active even once a week showed less cognitive impairment as measured by a test.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

They became more self-sufficient, less dependent on other people as rated by themselves and as rated by their family members.

变得更加自立，更少依懒他们，不论是他们自己,还是家庭成员的评估都是如此。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The experts at the University of Illinois say pieces that weigh less than thirty grams may not produce as much.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

People can be disgusting and if people are seen as disgusting they matter less.

人会变得令人反感,如果我们对他人感到反感，他们的重要性就降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Other studies suggest that as adults, they might be less likely to get called for a job interview.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

We can kind of freeze dry this thing and store it and then bring it back to life more or less exactly as the composer had intended.

我们相当于把这件作品干燥冷藏起来,并能够还原作品,比较精确地吻合作曲家的原意

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Critics say that as a result these schools are discriminating against women and admitting less qualified men.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

As I say, I'm going to quote three, more or less rapid-fire.

我说过，我将引用三段话，可能会读得快一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Ms.Gardiner said the delay between the arrival of the smell at each nostril could be as little as a half second or less.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Doctor Giuliano says rates of survival five years later showed that the less invasive operation was just as successful as the more aggressive action.

VOA: special.2011.03.23

On the y axis here it's the percent of people with these two conditions who have cardiovascular disease--or stroke rather 5%--less than 5% and a little over 5% with the stroke as the outcome.

轴表示患有心血管疾病的人同时患有,或不患有代谢综合征的百分比,就中风来说,分别是小于5%和略大于5%

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"A country such as Bangladesh or India, they average less than eight new implants per million.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

I can write this as d less than zero.

我可以把这个写成的d小于零。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Adding organic material such as compost to soil can also make lead less available to plants.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

And it turns out that if we're talking about a 2 s orbital in an ion, that means it doesn't have as many electrons in it, so what we're going to see is less shielding.

结果是当我们讨论,一个离子中的，2，s，轨道的时候，这意味着里面没有多的电子，那么电子的屏蔽效应会更小。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Another is having the freedom to change teachers as courses become more or less popular.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

So it feels a little backward mentally perhaps, 1 but this is saying, "do this block of code as long as n is less than 1."

所以它感觉可能有点迟缓，但是它指明，“只要n小于,执行这段代码“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

So a lot of teaching and learning can be thought as less synchronic activities and more diachronic one.

所以很多教学可以被看成是,不限于一时的而有历时变化的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

As the sport became more popular, it became less and less of a sport.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.

如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Premature or preterm births are defined as births at less than thirty-seven weeks.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

You can pay more into the cash value in one year and less in another year, as long as you keep paying a minimum amount.

你可以在某一年支付更多的现金,而在另一年支付少一些,只要投保人满足最低缴费要求就行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You could use the "I want to" pattern to express something much less practical as well.

你也可以用“I want to”句型来表达不太现实的事情。

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