Also,the inventors say the light-colored material better reflects sunlight, so buildings would cost less to cool.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

They seem to be designed less to recruit philosophers and potential philosophers than to shape and educate citizens and future statesmen.

它们看来较不像,要吸引哲学家,和潜在哲学家,反倒像是要形塑及教育公民,和未来的政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You'd be less likely to say "You look tired." or "You look bored." or "You look strange."

但你可能并不会说，“你看起来累极了。”，或者“你看起来很无聊。”，或“你看起来很奇怪。”

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So they weigh less to transport.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

And they attribute it to the fact that, for all sorts of reasons, the ugly kid just matters less to the parent.

他们把这个现象归因为，不知道为什么，父母就是没那么喜欢丑小孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This month,export prices for Southeast Asian rice have jumped from about $550 a ton or less to more than $650.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

it seems more or less to be a Puritan Revolution.

这似乎就像是一场清教革命。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

There it had less to do often with social forms of reform although that's not entirely true than it had to do with the Civil Rights revolution and the Vietnam War.

通常来说,它与改革的社会形态关联较小,但是它与民权革命和越战的关系,也没有人们认为的那么紧密

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The goal is to support a private space transportation industry that makes it easier and less costly to reach space.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But that no particular stock is more or less likely to outperform the market, because all the information is incorporated in the price.

但是没有那一种特殊的股票是,最有可能比市场平均表现更好的，因为所有信息都是包含在价格上的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Young people who said they were active in religious groups, sports or other interests were less likely to discuss risky behaviors.

VOA: special.2009.02.18

The second thing I want to say is less about paper writing, and more about the trajectory of this course and what we're seeing in common between these novels.

第二件我想说的事情是，不是关于写论文的，而是关于这门课的轨迹的,我们会在这些小说里看到一些共同点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

However, what I'm saying is that it's important, not less important to focus on questions when it comes to education.

但是，我所说的是当提到教育时，关注问题很重要，而不是较不重要。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.01.19

It would be nine times less. That is to say minus nine is less than minus one.

它比9倍更少，那就是说,9比-1小。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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 myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.

如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It would also depend on the building materials used since some materials are less resistant to heat than others.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Another way to say that it's going to be less, so you don't get confused with that the fact this is in the numerator here, there is that negative sign so it's less energy but it's a bigger negative number that gives us that less energy there.

另一个方式去说它将会变得很低实用，你们不用在这里的计算器的事实感到迷惑,这里有一个负号实用，它是更少的能量,但它是一个更大的数字,这里了它给了我们更少的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But Ms.Smith says the voter registration process may be one reason why young people are less likely to vote.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

The idea is to get better prepared students to explain things to the less well-prepared students.

我们想让准备更好的同学,给没准备好的同学讲解。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The researchers found that those who had been circumcised were twenty-eight percent less likely to get genital herpes than uncircumcised men.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Another thing that I will be talking about is less important to this course but you have heard of this: the subprime crisis.

我要讲的另一个问题,在这门课里相对不是那么重要,你们听过这个词吗,"次贷危机"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The hopeful women were also thirty percent less likely to have died from heart disease after the eight years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The more Player 1 produces, the less player 2 wants to produce and the more Player 2 produces, the less Player 1 wants to produce.

参与人1的产量越多,参与人2就会减产,如果参与人2增产,那么参与人1就要减少产量

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

Less cleaning, to take care of the dishes and you can just throw it away.

垃圾食品省了装盘和清洗,可直接扔掉

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So this has to be less than this.

所以它小于它。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选