Less than three days later, Apollo Eight was orbiting the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

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

I start at the beginning of each list, and I say is one less than three?

从每个列表的头开始，那个么1是不是比3小呢？当然？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Greece represents less than three percent of the euro area economy.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

There's only one occasion where it helps to go to three dimensions because there are certain things you can do in 3D you cannot do in less than 3D.

只有一种情况下进入三维是有意义的,因为有些事情你能在三维空间内完成,但低于三维就做不到了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Census data from 2007 and 2008 show that young people under the age of 25 make up less than three percent of America's self-employed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

And, likewise, there will be a test running from 1:05 to 1:55: two different tests of comparable difficulty. I did this last year, and the difference in the scores on all three tests 1% was less than 1%.

还有，测试的时间会是,从1点5分到1点55分，两个不同的测试,但是难度差不多，我去年这样做过，3个测试的分数的区别,不到。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

India's national elections, the world's largest exercise in democracy, begin in less than three weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

So the take away is that if the user actually gives me two or three or four or whatever, this is this expression "is n less than 1" is going to evaluate to false if it's actually two or three or four or whatever.

所以先不管用户实际上给我,3，4还是其他数，这个表达式,“是否n小于1“将被评估为错误的,如果输入额是2，3，4或其它的数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"So it's certainly not going to be with us in anything less than three years, and I think it's more likely that we're in a five to ten year time frame."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

STUDENT: So, the string A is less than three, is false because they're comparing like ASCII values?

学生：字符串A比数字3小，是false的原因是因为对他们,进行了ASCII值的比较么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

women making up more than half of the U.S.population while occupying only 17 percent of the seats in U.S Congress, and constituting less than three percent of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers (SPEAKING) Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, pointed to the challenges women still face globally in achieving the same basic rights and dignity as men.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

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

Leaders of the Group of Twenty have now met three times in less than a year to deal with the worst recession since the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The company took less than four years to produce three X-15s.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

This is three meters less than other studies have estimated.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

In the last three decades the lakes have shrunk to less than half of their original size.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16