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

Now, compare the first element in each of these lists. Two is less than three, so two ought to be the next element of the list.

现在，比较每个列表的第一个元素,2要比3小，所以2应该是合并后列表的，下一个元素，然后你们就知道了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone there were 10,000 less shoemakers than there had been before.

然而,一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查,就少了一万名鞋匠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The study found that those who received lower doses of steroids by mouth spent less time in the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

When the bad is behind us, that seems less bothersome than when the bad is in front of us.

当糟糕的事过去之后，它似乎没有在我们前面时那么麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

This Decalogue, which is often called the ritual Decalogue, so it's listed on there in Exodus 34, bans intermarriage with Canaanites less they entice the Israelites into worship of their gods.

十诫常被称作礼节十诫，记录在《出埃及记》第34章中,在发给你们的材料中有列出，它禁止与迦南人联姻,以防以色列人被怂恿信仰他们的上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They observed that for every molecule of carbon dioxide taken in by the plants, they lost forty-four percent less water.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A low-fat diet is one in which less than thirty percent of a person's daily calorie intake comes from fat.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

Now I submit that the Lady would appear to be less in control of her fantasies than she is of her rigorously disciplined behavior.

现在我认为,小姐会试着不被自己的幻想控制,因为她有着很强的自律能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

In this respect it seems to me much less like just a branch of political science than the foundation of the entire discipline.

从这个角度切入，我认为它,并不像只是政治科学的分支,而更像是整个学科的基石。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Less than ten years ago, the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center was formed in the state of Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Now we know we're going to get less work out of it in that case.

我们知道,这样的话得到的功会变少。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But it grew too slowly. By the end of summer, there were still less than twenty men hiding in the old house.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

So, if we want to go from that stable state to that less stable state, we need to put in a certain amount of energy to our system, that difference between the free electron and the electron bound to the metal.

所以，如果我们想使电子,从稳态到达不够稳定的状态，我们需要引入一定数量的,能量到系统中，即自由电子和束缚于金属的,电子的能量差。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Mister Weindruch says not only is life extended in the monkeys that eat less, but their quality of life is also improved.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

I started by saying, "Could you come up with any kind of-- well,you tell me in fifty words or less what I said in lecture yesterday about harmony.

我是这样开头的，你们能够想起任何-,好吧，你们用五十个以内单词告诉我在昨天的课上我就和声问题说了些什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The experts also said people should take less than four thousand milligrams of acetaminophen in a single day.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

OK? And in fact, if you look at the code up here, and it's on your handout, the very first one, x 1, right here- if I could ask you to look at it-- is a piece of code to do it. And I'm less interested in the code than how we're going to analyze it, but let's look at it for a second.

实际上，如果你看看,你们课堂发的材料上面的代码，第一页上的，就是那-,大家请看看实现的这一部分代码,我不太关心,我们会怎么解释这个代码,首先让我们先看看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The researchers say Mali suffered less because it depended less on imported rice, in part because of geography.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Less than one percent, less than one percent of the real and personal property, in both South and North by the 1850s, was held by approximately fifty percent of free adult males.

不到百分之一,不到百分之一的不动产和动产,在十九世纪五十年代的南方和北方一样,由大约百分之五十的自由成年男性持有

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The W.H.O.says counterfeits represents less than one percent of the illegal drug market in countries like the United States, Canada,Japan,and New Zealand.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

And, in fact, the proportion as you go from rat, cat, and monkey, humans— less and less of it is devoted to projection areas and there is more and more to other things.

事实上你可以看到,从老鼠开始,到猫,到猴子,再到人类,投射区所占的面积越来越少,而负责其他功能的皮层,所占面积则越来越大

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

School officials decided to make changes at Ballou after less than sixty percent of the senior class graduated in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In eighteen sixty, American shops and factories produced less than two thousand million dollars' worth of goods.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The problem, of course, with the democratization of finance is that if you raise the participation in financial markets, then you bring in people who are: less and less knowledgeable; less and less understanding of concepts of finance; and less capable and more vulnerable to exploitation.

问题在于,随着金融的民主化,越来越多的人参与到金融市场里来,有些人,受教育程度较低,对金融概念不了解,没有专业能力且容易被人利用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And so the breakdown that we've had in past terms are just under half of the students describe themselves as among those less comfortable just 10% over 10% among those more comfortable, in between.

在以往的学期里,仅有将近一半的学生,认为自己对电脑知识不太熟悉,认为自己比较熟悉电脑的人略多于，剩余的这些学生介于两者之间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选