First,people in forced labor situations receive wages that are lower, sometimes far lower, than the market rate.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

And even if over a period of time the average amount of their regard is lower because they started lower and then got higher than someone who was always high, it's the ones who were first lower who then went up that capture our attention.

即使在一段时间内,他们对我们的评价依然不高,但是因为起点较低,只要是在日益改善，总比一开始就对我们评价好的人更有吸引力，正是开始低而慢慢增加的人,会引起我们的注意。

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So that doesn't make a difference for us when we're talking about neutral atoms, 4s because we would fill up the 4 s first, because that's lower in energy until we fill it, and then we just keep going with the d orbitals.

所以那对我们来说没什么不同,所以当我们讨论中性原子时，因为我们会首先填充，因为在我们填充它之前它的能量都较低，然后我们继续填充d轨道。

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She was the first female golfer to score lower than three hundred in a seventy-two hole tournament.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Roosevelt and Churchill first met when they were lower-level officials during World War One.

VOA: special.2011.07.07