In his commencement address, President Obama told the cadets he believes the nature of the war in Afghanistan has changed since it began in 2001, but that it is no less important today.

VOA: standard.2010.05.22

However, what I'm saying is that it's important, not less important to focus on questions when it comes to education.

但是，我所说的是当提到教育时，关注问题很重要，而不是较不重要。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In our art music, our symphonies, concertos genres of this sort, the performer is actually much less important.

在我们的高雅音乐,像我们的交响乐,协奏曲,这类的体裁中,演奏者往往不那么重要

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Or,they can represent someone less well known but historically important.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Another thing that I will be talking about is less important to this course but you have heard of this: the subprime crisis.

我要讲的另一个问题,在这门课里相对不是那么重要,你们听过这个词吗,"次贷危机"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says the region's Baluch people have important ethnic and cultural differences from Pashtuns in the tribal belt that make them less willing to harbor militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Because in this account military skill is much less important than ritual preparation and purity.

因为在这一叙述中，军事技巧并不重要,比起宗教仪式准备和纯净圣洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But yet Muscovy was considerably less important than the commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was considerably much greater and subject to struggles with and influence by that state.

但俄国的影响力仍远不及,波兰-立陶宛联邦,后者远远比俄国强大,但却受制于两国的争端所照成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When I said that questions are important and answers matter less, I am not coming from a point of relativism.

当我说问题重要而答案没那么重要时，我不是从相对论的观点来说的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, these are an important list of factors as to the factors that can make somebody less likely to bring it up to the killing level.

这些都是很重要的影响因素,它们能使电击者,进行致命电击的可能性降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I need to spend less time at the office and more time with my family, telling the people that I love that I love them, doing the things that are important to me, spend less time worrying about getting ahead, making money,getting the plasma TV,whatever it is.

我要花更少时间在工作上，多陪陪家人，告诉我爱的人们我爱他们，做那些对我来说重要的事情，不再浪费时间担心如何获得成功，想着赚大钱，买等离子电视什么的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That Joseph, a Semitic foreigner, could be elevated to an important post, the post of governor, is a little less surprising, if we suppose there was a Semitic regime.

约瑟夫，外来闪族，可能被提拨到高位，统治者的位置，这也就不那么令人惊奇了，如果我们假设当时有一个闪族王国。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now a development economist--that's Santosh's field-- Development economics is a very important field in economics that is helping less developed countries emerge.

发展经济学...那是桑托什的研究领域,发展经济学是,经济学中一个非常重要的领域,它研究的是如何帮助欠发达地区实现经济崛起

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now, So, you have these maps in your head but the thing to realize is— And these maps are part of your cortex, but the things to realize is that's an important part of what goes on in your brain but less than one quarter of the cortex contains these maps or projection areas.

你的脑袋里存在着这些定位图,但你们会发现,这些定位图是你大脑皮层的一部分,但你们会发现,这是在你的大脑活动中,起到重要作用的一部分大脑皮层,不过只有不到四分之一的大脑皮层,存在这些定位图或是投射区

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, banking has a --it's important to know that banking is bigger in developing countries -I'll say LDCs, less developed countries -than in developed countries.

如今,银行有着...大家一定要了解,在发展中国家,银行规模更加庞大,...应该是在LDCS,即欠发达国家,这是相对于发达国家来说的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选