The railroads made it possible to travel from one side of the country to the other in less than a week.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Nonetheless, when I've spoken in less developed countries, I find that they're really interested in finance.

但是,当我在一些较落后的国家演讲时,我发现他们真的对金融很感兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's, it's clean. It's sweet. It's nice to be in a smaller community. It's definitely less busy.

这里的环境十分干净，生活贴心。生活在小社区十分舒适。生活也没有那么忙碌。

想学习宗教学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Last week's meeting in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20 summit in less than a year.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

There's only one occasion where it helps to go to three dimensions because there are certain things you can do in 3D you cannot do in less than 3D.

只有一种情况下进入三维是有意义的,因为有些事情你能在三维空间内完成,但低于三维就做不到了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But more than half of all children will be minorities in less than half that time.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

The reason it's aluminum is because aluminum has a lower z effective, so it's not being pulled in as tightly by the nucleus, and if it's not being pulled in as tightly, you're going to have to put in less energy in order to ionize it, so that's why it's actually going to have the smaller ionization energy.

原因是,铝的有效核电量更少，所以没有被原子核束缚得更紧，而如果没有被束缚得更紧，你为了电离它所需要注入的能量也就更少，这就是,它的电离能会更低的原因。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In less than an hour, the Indians killed the general and every one of his men.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Does it make sense to think we could do this in less than linear time? You know, it takes a little bit of thinking. What would it mean do I see a hand way at the back, yes please? Thank you.

你要稍微想一想，这意味着什么？,那儿是有人举手么？后面的,请你来回答吧,谢谢你，小伙子,你让我体会到我上课的价值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Leaders of the Group of Twenty have now met three times in less than a year to deal with the worst recession since the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

I've had some experience giving talks in less developed countries.

我曾经在发展中国家做过几次演讲

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It traveled two thousand one hundred kilometers in less than ninety hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

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

He made the trip in less than eight days.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Hermeneutics is, well, more or less by nature and by definition, interested in meaning.

解释学从定义来看，注重事物的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the charisma of the former guerrillas soon faded and the Maoist-led government collapsed in less than a year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Because there is no limit and there is less prescription there certainly today than in the disease model.

因为没有界线，如今它的使用程度,也远比疾病模型少。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He also praises Colombian President Avaro Uribe for lowering his country's coca production, resulting in less cocaine passing through Mexico into the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

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

This is President Obama's second trip south of the border in less than four months.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

So in other words, this engine is running less efficiently than my Carnot engine.

也就是说，这个热机的效率,比卡诺热机低。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

India's national elections, the world's largest exercise in democracy, begin in less than three weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Framingham is a town halfway between Worcester and Boston and you see it more or less in the middle of the map right here.

弗明汉是在伍斯特和波士顿间的一个小镇,它差不多就在地图的正中间,这儿

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

India's main festival and wedding season starts in less than two weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

But more or less, in terms of how you can be reached most easily by telephone.

多少考虑下，哪个地方只要打电话,就能联系到你。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Beauregard had twenty thousand soldiers at Manassas Junction, a railroad village in Virginia less than fifty kilometers from Washington.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

This game that's going on more or less right now in the primaries, well I guess the entry stage of it is gone now.

这个博弈在一定程度上,正在现在的总统初选中进行着,我猜是否要参选的阶段已经结束了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She means young people who are more interested in technology and less interested in working all the time on the farm.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

So in the sense there is opportunity, and there may be more opportunity in the long run even if kind of the entrepreneurial opportunities are less frothy than they might have been in the short run.

因此从这个意义上讲现在是大好时机，长期来看会有更多的机遇,如果创业的机会不像短期机遇,看起来那么空洞的话。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Probably in a typical week, 50 pages, maybe less.

但是也许在一个星期内50页，或许少些。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选