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

VOA: special.2009.05.29

And so you could construct all subsets, check that the weight is less than the weight of the knapsack, and then choose the subset with the maximum value.

因此你可以构建所有子问题，判断它的重量,是否小于背包的重量，然后选择值最大的子问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

The group with the most punishment earned twenty-five percent less than the group with the least punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

But what's even worse is I'm going to get even less than the average amount of life.

但更糟糕的是,我活得比平均寿命还要短。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It's a little less than the administration and perhaps Speaker have said.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

And the glitch that doesn't make sense just through periodic trends, is that it turns out that the ionization energy of boron is actually less than the ionization energy up beryllium.

仅仅考虑周期性规律,是无法理解这个问题的，这里显示硼的电离能,实际上比铍的要小。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Many analysts believe President Obama will order additional U.S.forces to Afghanistan, but the total will be less than the 40,000 troops requested by his top commander in the country, General Stanley McChrystal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Why not "less"? Why isn't "dream" less than the truth?

为什么不是更少？，为什么不是梦少于真理？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

While women and minorities make up two-thirds of the American workforce, they represent less than The survey cites poor schools, and lack of quality science and math programs, persistent negative stereotypes, financial cost and school and workplace bias.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

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

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

VOA: special.2009.08.05

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

"Oh,yes." "Well,we get on the job right away. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we lose the fix.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

People living in Darfur are certainly less happy than people living in Denmark or the United States.

生活在达尔福尔的人,肯定没有生活在丹麦或美国的人快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He said the South would accept nothing less than extending the Missouri compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Well because you can, because it's less expensive to do so than it is elsewhere in the world and people naturally like sweet tastes.

一是因为你能做到,二是因为这么做的成本比在其他国家低,更何况人们天生喜欢甜味

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

And, if this quantity is less than zero, the bonding is favorable.

如果这个数小于，能够形成键。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Less than one month after the test at Alamogordo, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Now, Judaism is actually a religion with a less than clear story about the afterlife.

犹太教实际上,并没有对人死后的去向给予清晰的解释

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Less than ten years ago, the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center was formed in the state of Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

They must be less than monopoly, since that's the highest they could ever be.

它一定是少于垄断下的利润的,因为垄断下的利润是最高利润

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than 5 centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

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

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

VOA: special.2009.08.19

There are no less than twenty pages devoted to the critical debate on these two lines: what the hell Saint Peter's two-handed engine is, what it looks like, what it does, what -- and everything about it.

集中描写这两行里的争论的,不少于20页：,圣彼得的双手引擎到底是什么，长什么样，用来干什么-和关于它的所有所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

The total work is less than zero.

说明系统对外界做功。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Less than one percent, less than one percent of the real and personal property, in both South and North by the 1850s, was held by approximately fifty percent of free adult males.

不到百分之一,不到百分之一的不动产和动产,在十九世纪五十年代的南方和北方一样,由大约百分之五十的自由成年男性持有

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选