Most scientists believe that its better, a better process, less affected by conflicts of interest, but still affected by politics.

大部分学者认为这是一个改进,不过虽然利益冲突的影响有所减少,却仍不免受到政治因素的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It's only a slight variation that makes it a little bit more polite. A little bit less approaching.

这样轻微的变形可以使你的问题变得更为礼貌，也更为委婉。

Do you mind 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You can look at that and get a better idea, and that's less affected by lobbying and special interest than the government version.

通过它你可以受到更好的启发,它不像政府版本那样,受到游说和特殊利益的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I was thinking of something a little bit less ambitious.

我本来想得到一个不这么直白的回答

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

it's more indirect, more polite and a little bit less abrasive perhaps.

这样来得更委婉、有礼貌，也相对不会伤人感情。

Would you please 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Realize that there's this wonderful mechanism in place that allows you to put your toe in the water for several weeks no less and then get a sense, and then decide whether or not this is something for you.

要知道这种好的评分体制哈佛也有,在这种机制下你可以先试听几周,熟悉这一机制，然后再决定这是否适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Yeats is, in fact, a far less nostalgic thinker than either Eliot or Pound, at least as I understand them.

其实叶芝不如,艾略特或庞德那么怀旧，至少我是这么理解的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

That's a lot less than the amount of money out there but they always had fractional reserve of banking anyway.

这比流通的金钱少的多,但是他们总是有部分准备金银行制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And this was largely a secular, a less religious movement that focused on the Palestinian identity, nationalizing the conflict, making it national.

这是个非宗教，宗教因素不那么重要的运动,主要集中在于寻求巴勒斯坦身份，把冲突推向国家性质。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Indeed, who was one the heroines of the Battle of Jericho, if not a Canaanite woman, a prostitute no less, named Rahab.

事实上，她是耶利哥之役的一位女英雄，如果不是迦南妇女，是妓女或者更甚，叫哈布。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And so I'm going to leave you here at the end of this lecture less with a conclusion than with a paradox.

我准备就讲到这里，留给你们,一个文学上的悖论而非一个结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, this will be a little bit more like a seminar to start with, and a little bit less like a lecture in class.

所以着看起来有点像是讨论课，而不是讲课。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But I also have a weakness for the less common mental disorders that I think tell us something really interesting about mental life.

但我对那些不太常见的心理障碍,也并不是非常了解,不过我倒认为这些不常见的心理障碍,却向我们展示了心理活动有意思的一面

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, the last thing I want to show you is on a less skeptical note.

最后我要向你们展示的是一个不那么可疑的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the same general passage he says, a man who is by nature without a polis is either more or less than a man.

他在同一章节中指出,一个生来远离城邦,闲云野鹤的人,也就不再是一个真正的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选