It's a fallacy that the affluent give relatively more to charity than the less prosperous.
富人比不太有钱的人给慈善机构相对更多捐赠是一种谬见。
As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.
作为一个群体，总体来说，“夜猫子”型的人往往比早起的人吃的健康食品更少，摄入的卡路里更多。
Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.
Mies的口头禅意味着少用装饰、安排得当，比用很多（装饰）效果更明显。
A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.
去年发表在《美国临床营养学期刊》上的一项研究发现，睡眠多的人比他们睡眠较少的同龄人更少吃不健康的食品。
Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy.
即使是一个生态效率高得多的工业系统，如果它发展得更大，也会比更小、更不生态效率的经济产生更多的垃圾，破坏更多的栖息地和物种。
More than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
比昨天多，比明天少。
A new study found that inner-city kids living in neighborhoods with more green space gained about 13% less weight over a two-year period than kids living amid more concrete and fewer trees.
一项新的研究发现，在两年的时间里，与住在钢筋水泥更多、树木较少的社区的孩子相比，住在市中心有更多绿地的社区里的孩子，两年中增加的体重少了约13%。
A more disturbing trend in America today is that teens are spending far less time reading than around four decades ago.
当今美国一个更令人不安的趋势是，青少年花在阅读上的时间比40年前要少得多。
This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home.
这一插曲让一个具有讽刺意味的事实变得更加明显：尽管在公共场合美国男性往往比女性说得多，但在家里他们却往往说得少。
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter, "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
“你的意思是你不能少拿，”帽商说，“多拿比不拿容易。”
Blue asbestos is far less common in buildings, which is just as well because it's more dangerous than white asbestos.
蓝色的石棉在建筑中要少见得多，幸好是这样，因为它比白色石棉更危险。
It was uncommon to find means of transport that were more efficient than walking but less technologically advanced than motor vehicles.
"很少能找到比步行更有效率但是在技术上不比机动车先进的交通工具。
Species with similar DNA sequences for these genes are generally more closely related to each other than to species with less-similar DNA sequences.
与DNA序列不太相似的物种相比，这些基因的 DNA 序列相似的物种之间的关系通常更密切。
There will be less red light and more far-red light than normal.
红光会比平时少，远红光会比平时多。
People who spend more than an hour a day on social media are less happy than those who spend less time on it.
每天在社交媒体上花超过一小时的人，不如在社交媒体上花更少时间的人快乐。
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