However, generic functions are much better; generic functions will order themselves from more to less specific so there is no question of putting an elif in the wrong place.
然而，使用通用函数会更好；通用函数自己就会有些或多或少的特性，因此不会在错误的地方使用elif。
Borrowers are striving to ease their financial position by spending less and saving more.
借款者都在努力通过少花多存来缓解经济紧张状况。
I want our organization to be less reactive and more proactive.
我希望我们的组织少一些被动反应，能够更加积极主动些。
He talks of travelling less, and delegating more authority to his deputies.
他说要减少旅行，还有要授予他的副手们更多的权力。
It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
一个几乎普遍的真理是，工作上提升得越高，我们最初的那些工作技能实际上就用得越少。
Newport also recommends "deep scheduling" to combat interruptions and get more done in less time.
纽波特还建议通过“深度调度”来对抗干扰，以更少的时间完成更多的工作。
Simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.
同声传译在我看来是更加困难的，它需要在说话者说话的时候把他们的话或多或少地翻译成另一种语言。
They have got the walls to where they were before Katrina, more or less.
他们或多或少地把墙恢复到了卡特里娜飓风前的水平。
When people are bored, they're more likely to feel less meaning in their lives.
当人们感到无聊时，他们更有可能觉得生活的意义愈发少了。
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。
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。
The programme tries to make children more rational, less reflexive consumers.
该计划试图让儿童成为更有理智的、反射性反应略少的消费者。
We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
我们多少有些心血来潮地决定乘船去摩洛哥。
Paradoxically, the less you have to do the more you may resent the work that does come your way.
自相矛盾的是，你要做的事情越少，就越是对突然落在你身上的工作不满。
It is all very well to urge people to give more to charity when they have less, but is it really fair?
这样好倒是好，敦促人们给慈善机构更多东西，当他们自己却没那么多东西的时候，但是这真的公平吗？
I know we have to go southeast, more or less.
我知道我们大概得往东南方向走。
They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.
他们发现，按照时间安排工作的人的效率更高，但幸福感更低，因为他们觉得自己无法掌控自己的生活。
The special fare systems on the airlines' computers encourage more people to fly on less popular flights, and this means that as a result all flights are equally full.
航空公司电脑上的特殊票务系统鼓励更多的人乘坐不那么受欢迎的航班，这意味着结果所有航班的客流量都是一样的。
With less energy produced in warmer years and more being consumed just to survive, there is even less energy available for growth.
随着气候变暖时产生的能源的减少以及生存消耗的能源的增加，可用于生长的能源就变得更少了。
To solve this problem, scientists advise that students should get less schoolwork and more time to sleep.
为了解决这个问题，科学家建议学生应该少做功课，多花点时间睡觉。
Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.
至少在部分领域，学术调查可能需要减少排他性，变得更全面一些。
That's why environmental critics are calling instead for reductions in global livestock production, and urging people to consume less, not more, meat in their diets.
这就是为什么环境评论家反而呼吁减少全球牲畜生产，并敦促人们减少而不是增加他们饮食中的肉类消耗。
In the tropics, the valleys appear to be more favorable because they are less prone to dry out, they have less frost, and they have deeper soils.
在热带地区中，山谷似乎更有利于树木生长，因为山谷更加不容易干涸、较少结霜，并且拥有更深的土壤。
A ratio of less red and to more far-red light would cause a reaction from the plant.
较少红光和较多远红光的比例会引起植物的反应。
In addition, non-readers are more likely to live in rural areas and have less contact with neighbours and friends.
此外，不识字的人更多生活在农村地区，与邻居和朋友的联系更少。
Another approach to getting more done in less time is to rethink how you prioritise your day—in particular how we craft our to-do lists.
另一种以更短时间完成更多事情的方法是重新思考如何安排你一天的优先次序——特别是如何制定待办事项清单。
They're willing to make more trips to haul back less wood, which carries a greater risk of being exposed to predators.
它们宁愿多走几次，每次只带回较少的木料，这就增加了在捕食者面前暴露的风险。
Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
许多孩子无法抵抗诱惑，将注意力从印刷文本转移到难度较小、但更生动的图画上。
They become less identifiable, more generalizable to any audience.
它们变得更难以识别，更容易被所有观众接受。
With fresh air to breathe, less crowded living conditions, and more chances to take part in physical exercise, children in the country are usually healthier than those in the city.
乡下的孩子有新鲜的空气可以呼吸，生活环境不那么拥挤，有更多的机会参加体育锻炼，所以他们通常比城市中的孩子健康。
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