"My wife is a little bit less of a social media user than I am.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

When you start laughing at somebody you think of them as less of a person and we'll get to that a little bit more when we talk about laughter.

当你嘲笑别人时,他们在你眼中的人性就会减少,我们以后再深入探讨幽默,等我们讲到笑的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Black, White... It seems to be less of a, less of an issue.

黑人，白人……这些似乎没有人在意。

来自田纳西 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2010.02.21

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But lately bankruptcy became less and less of a surprise.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

So I think the dorm policies are less of a... less enforcement

所以我觉得宿舍的一些政策执行效果不怎么严格。

关于宿舍制度 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Some Democrats hope she will win, saying that Angle poses less of a threat to Harry Reid in November.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

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

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

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Though she knew even less about radios than about southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

映入她的眼帘，虽然她对于收音机的了解,比对南加州的还要少，不过这两者都有一种,如同象形文字的意味，有一种隐蔽的，想要沟通的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

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

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

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

And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

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

Fabian Fernandez, a soil and plant nutrition expert at the University of Illinois, says no-till means less intensive labor.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

And so...what you're noticing is a fair mount of mergers and acquisitions, meaning less efficeint businesses are collapsing into biger businesses.

所以你会看到,企业间大量的,兼并，这意味着,工作效率低下的企业,会垮台，被更大的企业吞并。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

Milton had claimed there that he seemed to have all the outward appearances of an adult male, of a man, " but " inward ripeness doth much less appear."

弥尔顿说他看起来具备了,一个成年男人的外表，但“稚嫩的内心从没有遭受历练“

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

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

The experts also said people should take less than four thousand milligrams of acetaminophen in a single day.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

I mean, it took me like a couple of weeks there, even less, putting together the site.

建立这个网站只耗费了几周的时间，甚至更少。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

A person with less than twenty-eight grams will now be charged with an infraction instead of a misdemeanor.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

So, again, it is based on size, it's a little bit less intuitive than the idea of just straining out all of the potassium ions.

因此，这还是以尺寸为基础的，只是有点不够直观,与钾离子挤不进去的图像相比。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Last week's meeting in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20 summit in less than a year.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Why, then, should we not study the acquisition of a cognitive structure like language more or less as we study some complex bodily organ?

我们为什么不应当,像研究某些复杂身体器官那样,去或多或少地研究,像语言这样的认知结构的习得

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

当我凝视着店铺和街道,我的身躯突然开始熊熊燃烧;,大约持续了二十分钟吧,我的幸福是如此巨大，我受到祝福，也能把祝福施加。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选