This is because lighter colors take in less of the strong heat of the sun than dark colors do.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Its average valence electron energy is 5.2 electron volts, which is a heck of a lot less than 11.

它的平均价电子能是,5。2电子伏，那比11电子伏要少得多。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It's a little bit less clean than, I guess, the rest of the city.

我想，它不如这座城市的其他地方干净。

哈莱姆很独特 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

By two thousand seven,however, the numbers were down to less than ten percent of boys and only eight percent of girls.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

So finger-pointing at the start of each list, 6 is indeed less than 8 so I'm gonna write it down first.

手指指向列表的开始，6肯定比,8小，我先把它写下来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They accused Wal-Mart of paying women less money than men and giving women fewer chances to get better jobs.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Now, compare the first element in each of these lists. Two is less than three, so two ought to be the next element of the list.

现在，比较每个列表的第一个元素,2要比3小，所以2应该是合并后列表的，下一个元素，然后你们就知道了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

These tickets are generally less costly than the price of going to a New York theater or arts show.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

But because there's this lone pair here, it's pushing down on the other bonds, 5° so we end up with an angle of less than 109 . 5 degrees.

但因为这里有孤对，它会把其它键向下压，所以键角会小于109。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone there were 10,000 less shoemakers than there had been before.

然而,一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查,就少了一万名鞋匠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The study found that eighty-five percent of women who waited less than six months to get pregnant had live births.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

When the bad is behind us, that seems less bothersome than when the bad is in front of us.

当糟糕的事过去之后，它似乎没有在我们前面时那么麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The experts at the University of Illinois say pieces that weigh less than thirty grams may not produce as much.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Justice is nothing more or less right than what benefits the rulers, the rulers who determine the laws of justice.

正义没有对错,只要那对统治者有利，因是由他们决定正义的法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

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

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

Now I submit that the Lady would appear to be less in control of her fantasies than she is of her rigorously disciplined behavior.

现在我认为,小姐会试着不被自己的幻想控制,因为她有着很强的自律能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But that was less than they fell at the end of two thousand eight compared to a year earlier.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

If you isolate those immature cells, some of them are less mature than others, some of them have more potential than others.

如果分离这些未成熟细胞,会发现有一些细胞成熟程度更低,它们比其他细胞更具潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But it grew too slowly. By the end of summer, there were still less than twenty men hiding in the old house.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

It's less of an opening argument than it is something that I want to convince you of.

我不是想要说服你们,而是想要让它成为一个公开的讨论。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

That's where all of them went at one point or another, some less than others.

这就是内战的导火索,分裂的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.06.23

So even at my level of arithmetic that's a lot less than 30%.

就我的算数水平都知道这绝对少于30%

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The study found that Jews are less than two percent of the adult population of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

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

Wrev So minus w reversible, 1 p2 is less than p1, so p2 over p1 is less than one, log of something less than 1 is negative times negative.

那么，而p2小于p1，p2/p1小于，取对数后是负数,负负得正。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选