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

VOA: special.2010.02.21

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

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。

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But lately bankruptcy became less and less of a surprise.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

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

"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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another way to say that it's going to be less, so you don't get confused with that the fact this is in the numerator here, there is that negative sign so it's less energy but it's a bigger negative number that gives us that less energy there.

另一个方式去说它将会变得很低实用，你们不用在这里的计算器的事实感到迷惑,这里有一个负号实用，它是更少的能量,但它是一个更大的数字,这里了它给了我们更少的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.06.29

A lot of times president sees his family less than a few of his close aids.

很多时候总统见家里人,不及见一些近身的助手。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

From the point of view of somebody who gets less, this is obviously a bad thing.

从那些寿命较短的人的角度来看，这显而易件是件坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

That has moved around a lot, but it got almost up to 60% in the post World War II period and now it's down to less than a third.

计算所得的百分率变动很大,二战后,它一度达到将近60%,现在又降到不到三分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

And, he worked for a little less than 10 years at McGill where he did more work on these particles that radiate from radioactive elements.

他在McGill工作了将近10年,在McGill期间做了更多的,关于放射性元素的放射性的工作。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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

It's not even a zero-- or rather if I have less, you'll have less- that's a negative sum game-- or a zero sum game-- if I have more, you'll have less- it's a fixed pie.

甚至不是一个零…,或者我更少，你也会更少，那也是负和游戏-,或零和游戏，我更多，你就会更少-,饼就那么大。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

STUDENT: So, the string A is less than three, is false because they're comparing like ASCII values?

学生：字符串A比数字3小，是false的原因是因为对他们,进行了ASCII值的比较么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Or maybe you want to express that you have something less tangible than a boyfriend.

又或者你想表达你拥有一些不像男友那么具体的东西。

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