School officials decided to make changes at Ballou after less than sixty percent of the senior class graduated in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

So, those who make less income pay a lower percentage of tax,

所以收入少的人税率低，

扶贫政策 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is by the way--just because one can make this claim and, I think, make it stick in certain cases, doesn't mean that the proposition is any less outrageous.

还要指出的是　就算有人提出了这种理论，有些情况下甚至能说通，并不说明这种说法就能让人接受了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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 more salient we make the source of the arousal, the less likely you can get the effect.

我们越突现觉醒原因，越不可能获得这个效果。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Paul examined the bracelet and decided that he could make the same thing -- for much less.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Eh, it really is, first of all, government of all institutions can make health care less expensive.

嗯，确实是这样，首先，所有政府机构,都有能力降低医疗费用。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

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

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom -- which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2011.03.06

For example, if it's more convenient should you change the environment to make the unhealthy food less convenient and make healthy foods more convenient?

举例来说,如果是因为方便,那你改变外部环境,会使得健康食品比垃圾食品更容易获得吗

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Adding organic material such as compost to soil can also make lead less available to plants.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Does it make sense to think we could do this in less than linear time? You know, it takes a little bit of thinking. What would it mean do I see a hand way at the back, yes please? Thank you.

你要稍微想一想，这意味着什么？,那儿是有人举手么？后面的,请你来回答吧,谢谢你，小伙子,你让我体会到我上课的价值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says it would make future bailouts more likely,not less.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

g has to be less than r for this to make sense because if g--if it's growing faster than the rate of interest, then this infinite series will not converge and the value would be infinite.

必须小于r才行得通,因为如果g比利率涨的还快,那么这个无穷序列就不会收敛,价值就是无穷了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

that could make them less desirable. Asian-Americans are not the only ones who use ginseng.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

The "is it okay" question pattern is something that you can use to make your speech a little less formal.

is it okay”问句能够让你说的话不过于正式。

Is it okay 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Large flows of capital can raise currency values and make export-based economies less competitive.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

So, these are an important list of factors as to the factors that can make somebody less likely to bring it up to the killing level.

这些都是很重要的影响因素,它们能使电击者,进行致命电击的可能性降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

There's a lot of ways to make other people matter less.

要降低他人的重要性有很多方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All the same, Whitman said steps could be taken to make commercial shipping less vulnerable to piracy on the high seas.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

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

"And if we go down that road, we are going to make this country less safe.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The more salient you make the cause of the arousal, the less likely you'll get the effect but you can see even in experiments where the cause of the arousal is somewhat obvious, at least to us, you can still get a misattribution effect.

我们越突现觉醒原因，越不可能获得那个效果,但是，你看到，在实验中,有时性觉醒的原因显而易见，至少对于我们而言，能发现时错觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some business groups complain that the proposed tax changes will impose new costs on U.S.firms and make them less competitive in the global marketplace.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

But anyway, the confederate that they hired was a woman who was naturally attractive in most people's view but they made her look either more attractive or less attractive by giving her kind of frumpy clothes, bad make-up, and a frizzy wig.

不管怎么说，他们请的这个助手,在大多数人眼中亭亭玉立,他们可以把她包装得更漂亮,或打扮成丑女无敌,让她穿些邋遢的衣服，失败的妆容还带上卷曲的假发。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

Mr.Hatoyama has signaled he will seek to make the U.S.relationship less central to Japan's decision-making.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

He says the region's Baluch people have important ethnic and cultural differences from Pashtuns in the tribal belt that make them less willing to harbor militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19