He wanted the eVolo skyscraper competition to be less about the height of the buildings, and more about supporting environmental and community responsibility.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Now I submit that the Lady would appear to be less in control of her fantasies than she is of her rigorously disciplined behavior.

现在我认为,小姐会试着不被自己的幻想控制,因为她有着很强的自律能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Black, White... It seems to be less of a, less of an issue.

黑人，白人……这些似乎没有人在意。

来自田纳西 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Walking is also reported to be less damaging to the knees and feet.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

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

The new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama campaigned on a pledge to be less dependent on Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Is the square root ever going to be less than 0?

一个数的平方根会小于0么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He says it will also enable the troops to be less predictable in their movements, and get away from areas where the bombs are planted.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"Well you know, we expected you to be less, less introversit."

这个嘛，我们没想到你会这么内向“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Older women might be less likely to delay because they know that the older they get, the higher the risks.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

All right, so gamma, the gas is cooling so V2 is going to be less than it what would be if the temperature kept constant.

气体温度下降了,于是V2会比等温过程,降到相同压强时的体积要小。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The researchers knew it would be easier and less costly to map a smaller frog with fewer chromosomal pairs.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

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

Or patients might be advised to think less about the past and more about the present and the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

But it's really a chance, especially for those less comfortable, to be set off on a very specific path.

这的确是一个机会，特别对于那些不怎么舒适的，这是通过,特殊途径开始的好机会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

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

Other studies suggest that as adults, they might be less likely to get called for a job interview.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

So today, I want to be a little bit less abstract, if you like, and I want to look at an application.

今天的课程会不那么抽象,如果你们愿意的话,我想在这里列举一个应用案例

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But they do not consider themselves to be better than others who are less important.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

That Joseph, a Semitic foreigner, could be elevated to an important post, the post of governor, is a little less surprising, if we suppose there was a Semitic regime.

约瑟夫，外来闪族，可能被提拨到高位，统治者的位置，这也就不那么令人惊奇了，如果我们假设当时有一个闪族王国。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or it could be less. Or it could be more, if the jury wants to punish the losing party and set an example for others.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

But when it came to treason, he was less likely to be merciful, as the case of Alexis, his ill-fated son would demonstrate.

只是对于背叛者,他是绝不手软的,他那不幸的儿子阿列克思就是一个例证

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Ulysses Grant would prove to be much less successful in politics than in war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

And, what they were trying to do was imagine a new world which would be less centralized; but, for the socialists, they wanted more centralization.

他们留下的目的就是,能生活在一个没有中央集权的社会中,但是,对于社会主义者来说则正相反

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The study decided it would be less costly,overall, to build the canal in Nicaragua.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Language proves to be no less marvelous and intricate than these physical structures.

语言和这些生理结构一样的,不可思议和错综复杂

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Other less known artists attend the festival to be discovered by record companies.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Now, that rapid rise is called depolarization and the membrane is said to be in a depolarized state because it's less polarized or less negatively charged repolarized as negatively charged.

这个迅速上升过程称为去极化,我们称膜处于去极化状态,因为膜的极化程度降低了,或者说是带的负电减少了,而复极化就代表重新带上负电荷

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选