"There is no evidence that the U.S.is any less strong than it has always been.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

There's a problem with that and the problem is that countries that are less successful don't keep data--that's a problem.

但这个研究方法也有问题,在那些不太成功的国家里,数据并不充分,这是个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and it's more or less that. I don't want to spoil it in case anyone goes to see it.

差不多就是那样的。万一有人要去观看这部剧呢，我可不想毁了它。

话剧排练结束后 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the silicon is what converts light into electricity, so you might think using so much less silicon would reduce the electrical output, but Atwater says that's not the case.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

He's introducing the reader to a mode of vision different from the vision typically permitted him from within the poem's more or less straightforward, linear, narrative boundaries.

他在向读者介绍一种不同于这首诗里,直白的线状叙述的界限,或多或少已经容许他，显露出的设想有所不同的先见之明。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Under her leadership, the group's budget grew from less than ten million dollars to more than one hundred thirty million.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

But we see if we have a free electron, as we do in this dotted line here, that's going to be a higher energy that's less stable.

但是我们看到如果,我们有一个自由电子，就像虚线所示那样，那将会是一个较高的,不够稳定的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

There's another argument descartes could have made that's a lot less subtle than the ones he did make, which is "That thing responsible for free will and love and consciousness?

笛卡尔本可以指出一个,比他所举论据,更为巧妙的论据,也就是,"这东西会是引起自由意志,爱恋,与意识的原因吗

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The other advantages of hair sheep include that it's more resistant to parasites, so they're less prone to infection."

VOA: special.2009.08.03

So 9% less cardiovascular disease, 13% less Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, 6% less cancer, 9% less mortality from all causes.

心血管类疾病患病率降低9%,帕金森病和老年痴呆症降低13%,癌症降低6%,由各种原因导致的死亡率降低9%

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 it does have a blunt tip, so that if it accidentally goes into my finger, it's much less likely to perforate."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

For most of you on your homework assignments, I'm hoping it's a little less than that, but not much less than that.

你们一起做作业的时候,我希望作业不会消耗你们那么多时间,比20小时少点就行了呗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

However,that opinion changed when manufacturers learned how to make better and less costly versions of Mister Harrison's clocks.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The credit unions are even smaller, $748 billion -so it's less than $1 trillion in credit unions.

信用合作社就更小了,7480亿美元,还不到1万亿美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Dr. Ornish's diet plan limits daily calories from fat to less than ten percent, with little to no saturated fat or cholesterol.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Rudolf was begining to feel trouble, then he saw a light house less than a kilometer's away.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Magnesium is a liquid but it's less dense than magnesium chloride.

镁是液体,但是它的密度比氯化镁要小。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

A competitor of Mars,Hershey's, supported the gene mapping of the Criollo, a far less common cacao tree.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

J++ Now here's the semicolon, J less than N, where N is this, J plus, plus; so what am I doing?

现在这里是一个分号，J小于N，N是这个，那么我在做什么？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Theres plenty of room for more." "And there'll be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

It's not even a zero-- or rather if I have less, you'll have less- that's a negative sum game-- or a zero sum game-- if I have more, you'll have less- it's a fixed pie.

甚至不是一个零…,或者我更少，你也会更少，那也是负和游戏-,或零和游戏，我更多，你就会更少-,饼就那么大。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Swimming also presents less risk of muscle and joint injury because of the body's weightlessness in water.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Now, less than is just, if you haven't used it before, it's just the operator you'd expect, it's comparing two things and it's going to return either true or false depending on whether the first argument is false less than the second argument.

现在，小于这个符号是，如果你之前没用过它的话，它就是你期望的那个运算符，它会比较两个独享,然后基于第一个参数是不是,小于第二个参数,返回true或者。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.10.02

It's, it's clean. It's sweet. It's nice to be in a smaller community. It's definitely less busy.

这里的环境十分干净，生活贴心。生活在小社区十分舒适。生活也没有那么忙碌。

想学习宗教学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Vonns teammate,Julia Mancuso, crossed the finish line less than a second later for the silver medal.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

I think it, it's less now than it used to be like, you know, 50 years ago,

不过我想现在比过去少了，我是说，比50年前少了。

我们是普林斯顿家族 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That argument's much less compelling nowadays than I think it would have been 20 or 40 years ago.

这个论点在今天远不及在20年前,或40年前有说服力了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选