Like netbooks, tablets are less costly ways to use the World Wide Web and digital information.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

Into My Own" . "Legend": "the youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having foresworn the world."

进入自我“，“传奇“,“这个少年被劝诱，如果他放弃世界,他将不再是他自己“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In world banking, the total share of Islamic finance is less than one percent.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Well because you can, because it's less expensive to do so than it is elsewhere in the world and people naturally like sweet tastes.

一是因为你能做到,二是因为这么做的成本比在其他国家低,更何况人们天生喜欢甜味

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The World Health Organization says less than 40 percent of mothers around the world breast-feed their infants in the first six months.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

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

India's national elections, the world's largest exercise in democracy, begin in less than three weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The question was: I said it seems plausible to say my soul is located, more or less, here because I seem to view the world from here.

这个问题是,我说过我的灵魂,极有可能存在于某个位置,至少我似乎能从这看到世界

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is unrealistic,he says, to expect him to have delivered on most of his promises, less than a year after his inspirational address to the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

That has moved around a lot, but it got almost up to 60% in the post World War II period and now it's down to less than a third.

计算所得的百分率变动很大,二战后,它一度达到将近60%,现在又降到不到三分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

South Africa has less than one percent of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

A normal reason for fighting is a dispute about a piece of land that is more or less on the boundary between them, and so that's one aspect of their world.

战争的常见原因就是领土争端,争夺一片或多或少在他们边界之间的领土,这是他们生活的一个部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Dubai World says it will restructure less than half of the nearly The new scheme will look at options for deleveraging, including asset sales,and will apply to the conglomerate's main property firms, Nakheel and Limitless.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

It turns out in the world of classical music there's a stereotype of women being simply less proficient than men: they play smaller than men, they don't have the same force and they have smaller techniques, they're more temperamental and so on.

在古典音乐界,有一个刻板印象,女人的造诣就是不如男人：,她们演奏得不如男人宏大，她们力量不如男人，她们技巧不如男人，她们喜怒无常等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

That is, more or less, what did happen in the Roman world and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

那就是,或多或少的,我看不到任何事物可以表明,在罗马社会发生的事情不会,在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In closing the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt last Friday, FIFA President Sepp Blatter sounded less than assured in wishing the best to Nigeria as host of the Under-17 event, in what he described as the African year of football.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Our hypothesis is that in the United States it's less expensive to sweeten things than it is elsewhere in the world, and part of that is because of high fructose corn syrup that we'll talk about later in the class.

我们假设,在美国,让食物变甜的成本比在其他国家要低,其中一部分是因为高果糖玉米糖浆,稍后我们会讲一下这个糖浆问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

That meant that people growing corn were less-- less vulnerable to having things wipe out entire crops because there were different types of crops planted around the world, so the world corn supply would never be threatened by anything.

也就是说只要人们种植玉米,整个粮食体系就不可能那么轻易被摧毁,由于世界各地种植着不同品种的玉米,世界玉米供应不会受到任何影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选