International law has less severe punishments for criminals under the age of eighteen.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

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

In fact though, the children who you reward later on think that this activity has less value and they are less likely to do it when there's no reward present.

但事实上，拿到奖励的孩子会想,这个活动的价值变低了，如果没有奖励,他们就不太可能会再做。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"It's quieter,it has less vibration, its inherently less complex which drives down costs, and it's easier to operate."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

And the fact is, food is healthier if it has less trans fat, but it depends on what fat's swapped out for it, because if you put a healthier fat in then it's--then you get a certain amount of improvement.

事实是,如果食物中反式脂肪的含量较低,确实会更健康,但这取决于被剔除的脂肪种类,因为如果加入较为健康的脂肪,食物的质量会获得一定程度的改善

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

South Africa has less than one percent of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

If the person has not mastered the basic concept, the person must fail, must get four or less.

如果他没有掌握基本的概念，那就一定不能通过考试，只得十分之四或更少。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But less trust in the euro has reduced its value to the lowest levels in over a year.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

SK 2007 has still got his hair, has the beard, stands up more or less straight.

我在2007年还有头发，有胡子，站得挺直的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The group says it has found that students in higher priced programs are more likely,not less likely, to repay their students loans.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

So this has to be less than this.

所以它小于它。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It has sold off its less profitable kinds of cars, closed factories,cut jobs and closed sales centers.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

So it's becoming much more sophisticated, much more interesting and the interesting thing about it is that it verifies a lot of the research that has been done to date with far less sophisticated means, such as self-rapport.

手段更成熟，更有趣，有趣的是,它验证了许多至今通过不全面的方法,所完成的研究的正确性，像自我评估。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

America's National Institutes of Health has suggested that women limit calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

This now has, gee, a funny thing, x it says IF x is less than y AND x is less than z, then do something.

代码现在有，啊，一个有趣的东西，代码先是判断x是不是小于y并且,是不是小于z，然后做一些事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But too often their cry for help has sounded hopelessly against the outer walls, while others -- less deserving -- find easy entrance to the halls of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

We know that it has to be equal to less than 2, because even if we had absolutely no shielding at 2 all, the highest z effective we could have is 2, so it makes perfect sense that we have a z effective that falls somewhere in the middle of those two.

我们知道它必须小于，因为即使完全没有一点屏蔽,最高的有效的z是，所以我们得到的有效电荷量处于,两者之间就非常讲得通了,让我们来看看另一个例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"A needle that goes through the skin needs to be as sharp as possible because that's going to be associated with the easiest access, the more slick closure, and the less pain when somebody has, say their blood drawn or their skin closed."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

g has to be less than r for this to make sense because if g--if it's growing faster than the rate of interest, then this infinite series will not converge and the value would be infinite.

必须小于r才行得通,因为如果g比利率涨的还快,那么这个无穷序列就不会收敛,价值就是无穷了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The technology has spread to many new countries and less stable countries since the end of the Cold War,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

OK, let's choose something that has, say, a hundred times less than that.

好的，让我们来选出，比那能量小100倍的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But with less than a week left in the Vancouver Games, Canada has no chance of winning more medals than other nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Fat is not all that much different, but one thing that's happened is the type of fat has changed a lot, and so people are eating less fat from plant sources and more fat from animals sources That's where the saturated fat comes in and high saturated fat intake is not a good thing.

脂肪摄入量相差无几,然而脂肪的种类却发生了很大变化,人们越来越少从植物中摄取脂肪,而更多是从肉类食物中获得,肉类食物中含有饱和脂肪酸,而过多地摄入饱和脂肪酸是有害的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It says it has raised less than a third of the $543 million needed to support 1.7 million IDPs for six months.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

They took a crystal, this is a single crystal of nickel that has regular planes of atoms, and those planes are spaced on the order of an angstrom or less apart, and they irradiated this with x-rays.

他们取了个晶体,一个具有规则原子平面的，镍晶体,这些面间距差不多也是一埃或者更少，它们放射出X射线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Today there are less than 50. The government has found housing for most but Balbina Desilva and her family were not so lucky.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The value of the euro currency has plunged for example, which makes American exports - key to the U.S.economic recovery - less competitive.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Mr.Hatoyama has signaled he will seek to make the U.S.relationship less central to Japan's decision-making.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"There is no evidence that the U.S.is any less strong than it has always been.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"There has to be a willingness on everyone's part to give more than they want to give and to accept less than they want to get.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25