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

VOA: special.2010.02.21

Most scientists believe that its better, a better process, less affected by conflicts of interest, but still affected by politics.

大部分学者认为这是一个改进,不过虽然利益冲突的影响有所减少,却仍不免受到政治因素的影响

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's only a slight variation that makes it a little bit more polite. A little bit less approaching.

这样轻微的变形可以使你的问题变得更为礼貌，也更为委婉。

Do you mind 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But lately bankruptcy became less and less of a surprise.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Is it calmer now? Are people a little less active than they were a few months ago or about a year ago?

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

You can look at that and get a better idea, and that's less affected by lobbying and special interest than the government version.

通过它你可以受到更好的启发,它不像政府版本那样,受到游说和特殊利益的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

and I think that science fiction became more escapist fantasy and less a warning or intellectual medium.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

I was thinking of something a little bit less ambitious.

我本来想得到一个不这么直白的回答

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She says that's more of a reflection on the fact there are less athletes and events in the Winter Olympics than a sign of the recession.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

it's more indirect, more polite and a little bit less abrasive perhaps.

这样来得更委婉、有礼貌，也相对不会伤人感情。

Would you please 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Realize that there's this wonderful mechanism in place that allows you to put your toe in the water for several weeks no less and then get a sense, and then decide whether or not this is something for you.

要知道这种好的评分体制哈佛也有,在这种机制下你可以先试听几周,熟悉这一机制，然后再决定这是否适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the eight-year period.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

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

Last month we reported about a study that showed eating even a little less salt could greatly help the heart.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

That's a lot less than the amount of money out there but they always had fractional reserve of banking anyway.

这比流通的金钱少的多,但是他们总是有部分准备金银行制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The researchers knew it would be easier and less costly to map a smaller frog with fewer chromosomal pairs.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

And this was largely a secular, a less religious movement that focused on the Palestinian identity, nationalizing the conflict, making it national.

这是个非宗教，宗教因素不那么重要的运动,主要集中在于寻求巴勒斯坦身份，把冲突推向国家性质。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

Indeed, who was one the heroines of the Battle of Jericho, if not a Canaanite woman, a prostitute no less, named Rahab.

事实上，她是耶利哥之役的一位女英雄，如果不是迦南妇女，是妓女或者更甚，叫哈布。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

About thirty percent of workers age sixteen to twenty-four with less than a high school diploma were unemployed last month.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

And so I'm going to leave you here at the end of this lecture less with a conclusion than with a paradox.

我准备就讲到这里，留给你们,一个文学上的悖论而非一个结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

So, this will be a little bit more like a seminar to start with, and a little bit less like a lecture in class.

所以着看起来有点像是讨论课，而不是讲课。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

But I also have a weakness for the less common mental disorders that I think tell us something really interesting about mental life.

但我对那些不太常见的心理障碍,也并不是非常了解,不过我倒认为这些不常见的心理障碍,却向我们展示了心理活动有意思的一面

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In nineteen sixty Doctor Seuss was urged by a book publisher to write a book using less than fifty words.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Now, the last thing I want to show you is on a less skeptical note.

最后我要向你们展示的是一个不那么可疑的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the same general passage he says, a man who is by nature without a polis is either more or less than a man.

他在同一章节中指出,一个生来远离城邦,闲云野鹤的人,也就不再是一个真正的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选