These were people under the age of sixty and those who had smoked for less than twenty years.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

If a company--if its stock sells for less than its assets are worth then the company maybe should be broken up and the assets taken and given somewhere else because the low stock price indicates a problem.

如果一家公司---如果它的股票卖的,比它的资产价值低,那么这家公司也许就应该破产，并且,它的资产就应该被占用或分配到其他地方,因为低的股票价格预示着一个危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

that will compensate for less stellar scores or letters of recommendation or whatever in other areas.

这也许能够弥补你在本科成绩，推荐信或其他方面的弱势。

准备LSAT的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the end, he was able to produce a very similar crystal bracelet for less than twenty dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Into My Own" . "Legend": "the youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having foresworn the world."

进入自我“，“传奇“,“这个少年被劝诱，如果他放弃世界,他将不再是他自己“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A company called StoveTec is selling them through its Web site for less than ten dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

But it's really a chance, especially for those less comfortable, to be set off on a very specific path.

这的确是一个机会，特别对于那些不怎么舒适的，这是通过,特殊途径开始的好机会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Now, oil is trading for less than 40 dollars a barrel.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

For example, when I returned to China, I remember we had less than 10 million Internet users, and today we have more than 338 million Internet users.

举例来说，当我回到中国，当时中国网民人数不足一千万，而现在网民数达到了3。38亿。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Whites protested, because the Chinese agreed to work for less money.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Women, for example, living in places where they are oppressed are in general less happy than women living in free countries.

以女性为例，生活在压迫制度下的一般,没有生活在自由国家的女性快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But they may have to lower their expectations, take on multiple duties, and work for less pay until the economy fully recovers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Then if I'm looking for the square root of something less than 1, I know it will be in my region, right?

如果我要求平方根的数小于,我就知道我们的答案应该,在0-1这个区间了，对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Officials say efforts are already underway, but for now in areas like Penjaringan the poor continue to pay more for less water.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And they attribute it to the fact that, for all sorts of reasons, the ugly kid just matters less to the parent.

他们把这个现象归因为，不知道为什么，父母就是没那么喜欢丑小孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Lee says the president is ignoring the people's wishes for less government debt and more responsible budgets.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

For most of you on your homework assignments, I'm hoping it's a little less than that, but not much less than that.

你们一起做作业的时候,我希望作业不会消耗你们那么多时间,比20小时少点就行了呗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If a subscriber can get quality care for less overseas, the companies calculate they will have to pay out less money in reimbursement.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

He seems less interested in actually praying for divine assistance than he is in chiding the muse for not having come to his aid sooner.

他好像不是在真正请求神的帮助,而是在责备缪斯没有尽快来帮助他。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says there must be more measures for less fortunate youngsters to catch up.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Prior to the bailout money for the banks, the banks were lending a certain amount, after the bailout money, the banks were lending less.

在拯救银行的措施实施之前，银行在贷款，而救市之后，银行价款量反而少了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

This left even less gold and silver to exchange for the huge amounts of paper money the banks had issued.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

So, you could buy apartment buildings for way less than it would cost to replace them.

所以，你可以买公寓，这比你自己花钱重建房屋,要省钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They have less than two weeks to go before they must perform the play for the Shakespeare in the Courts program.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

For every person who has less than the median amount of life, there's another person who has more than the median amount of life.

对于活得比平均寿命短的人来说，有一个人,活得比平均寿命长。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One method was to sell oil in one area of the country for much less than the oil was worth.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

For example, if it's more convenient should you change the environment to make the unhealthy food less convenient and make healthy foods more convenient?

举例来说,如果是因为方便,那你改变外部环境,会使得健康食品比垃圾食品更容易获得吗

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

So it looks a lot less messy if we just draw our Lewis structure like this for h c n, where we have h bonded to c triple bonded to n, and then a lone pair on the nitrogen there.

这看起来整洁了不少,如果我们把氰化氢的路易斯结构画成这样的话，这样我们就有氢与碳之间的单键和碳与氮之间三键，然后还有一对孤对电子在氮这里。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选