The decrease was less than expected, and much less than at the start of the year.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Well, let's do the smoke test number one: is the mean more or less what we expected?

好了，让我们先做1号发烟测试：,这个平均值是和我们想要的答案差不多吗？

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As we expected, it's less than one, and of course if we build an engine, we want it to be as high as possible, as close to one as possible.

就像预先期待的一样，效率小于一，当然如果我们建造一台热机，我们希望效率越高越好，尽可能接近一。

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Tourism industry officials expect visitor arrivals to fall to about one million less than had been expected, because of the protests.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"Well you know, we expected you to be less, less introversit."

这个嘛，我们没想到你会这么内向“

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