This left even less gold and silver to exchange for the huge amounts of paper money the banks had issued.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Into My Own" . "Legend": "the youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having foresworn the world."

进入自我“，“传奇“,“这个少年被劝诱，如果他放弃世界,他将不再是他自己“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

that will compensate for less stellar scores or letters of recommendation or whatever in other areas.

这也许能够弥补你在本科成绩，推荐信或其他方面的弱势。

准备LSAT的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They have less than two weeks to go before they must perform the play for the Shakespeare in the Courts program.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But it's really a chance, especially for those less comfortable, to be set off on a very specific path.

这的确是一个机会，特别对于那些不怎么舒适的，这是通过,特殊途径开始的好机会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

Women, for example, living in places where they are oppressed are in general less happy than women living in free countries.

以女性为例，生活在压迫制度下的一般,没有生活在自由国家的女性快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

He seems less interested in actually praying for divine assistance than he is in chiding the muse for not having come to his aid sooner.

他好像不是在真正请求神的帮助,而是在责备缪斯没有尽快来帮助他。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In addition,using the lambs costs much less than hiring workers to prune the vines for seven weeks in the summer.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

So, you could buy apartment buildings for way less than it would cost to replace them.

所以，你可以买公寓，这比你自己花钱重建房屋,要省钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There appeared to be less reaction later in the week when a different group released new guidelines for cervical cancer testing.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

For every person who has less than the median amount of life, there's another person who has more than the median amount of life.

对于活得比平均寿命短的人来说，有一个人,活得比平均寿命长。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

For example, if it's more convenient should you change the environment to make the unhealthy food less convenient and make healthy foods more convenient?

举例来说,如果是因为方便,那你改变外部环境,会使得健康食品比垃圾食品更容易获得吗

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

These were people under the age of sixty and those who had smoked for less than twenty years.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Other studies suggest that as adults, they might be less likely to get called for a job interview.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

All right, so this gentleman is saying... There's no dominant strategy so - Right, so this gentleman's saying, a good reason for choosing Alpha in this game is it's less risky.

很好,他说,这里没有优势策略 所以,没错,他说,选α是因为这样做风险更小

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In the end, he was able to produce a very similar crystal bracelet for less than twenty dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

A normal reason for fighting is a dispute about a piece of land that is more or less on the boundary between them, and so that's one aspect of their world.

战争的常见原因就是领土争端,争夺一片或多或少在他们边界之间的领土,这是他们生活的一个部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For that reason, says Mister Stephens, the more someone swears, the less of an effect the words have.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Just to give you an example of that, for instance, I can do the following: all right, the number four is less than 4 the string three, whereas the string four, oops, is not less than the string three.

仅仅是给大家看一个例子，例如，我可以这么做：,好，数字4比,字符串3要小，而字符串，比字符串3要大。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And in other economic news, a report by the Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index shrank by less than expected.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

For example, when I returned to China, I remember we had less than 10 million Internet users, and today we have more than 338 million Internet users.

举例来说，当我回到中国，当时中国网民人数不足一千万，而现在网民数达到了3。38亿。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

The price is four hundred forty dollars compared to one hundred seventy,or less, for a traditional cycle rickshaw.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

And they attribute it to the fact that, for all sorts of reasons, the ugly kid just matters less to the parent.

他们把这个现象归因为，不知道为什么，父母就是没那么喜欢丑小孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The Tea Party also opposes the new health care law and argues for lower taxes and less government.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

So it looks a lot less messy if we just draw our Lewis structure like this for h c n, where we have h bonded to c triple bonded to n, and then a lone pair on the nitrogen there.

这看起来整洁了不少,如果我们把氰化氢的路易斯结构画成这样的话，这样我们就有氢与碳之间的单键和碳与氮之间三键，然后还有一对孤对电子在氮这里。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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