Forests are spreading in almost all Western countries, with the fastest growth in places that historically had rather few trees.
几乎所有西方国家的森林都在扩大，过去树木相当少的地方增长最快。
We met rather few people who spoke English.
我们没遇到几个会讲英语的人。
Rather few Westminster politicians seem curious as to whether other EU countries have views about their plan.
英国议会的政客们很少关心欧盟其他成员国怎样看待这一计划。
This profiling is done on specific rectangles that should only contain noise and rather few color changes.
这种特征是在特定矩形，应当只包含噪声和颜色，而很少变化。
The number and times of the girls' physical training are rather few and the physical training fields are mainly the college stadium and spare space.
整体上女生体育锻炼的人数、次数较少，体育锻炼的场所主要是校内的运动场和空地，对体育锻炼项目有选择倾向。
However, if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writer's actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction.
然而，如果《蒙娜丽莎》是一部著名的小说，可能几乎没有人会放着印刷好的副本不看，而去博物馆参观作者本人当年的手稿了。
A few weeks later he said that maybe he viewed all his relationships rather negatively.
几个星期后，他说或许他把自己和他人的各种关系看得太消极了。
Clearly, Japanese carpenters of the day knew a few tricks about allowing a building to sway and settle itself rather than fight nature's forces.
显然，当时日本的木匠知道一些技巧，这些技巧可以使建筑能够摇晃并且稳定下来，而不是与自然的力量进行抗衡。
The exoplanet is a few times the mass of Earth, but it should still be small enough to be rocky rather than a gas giant like Jupiter.
这个系外行星的质量是地球的几倍，但是它足够小，能够由岩石构成，而不是像木星是一团巨大的气体。
That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.
这可能会有些晦涩难懂，但它为一个展览奠定了基调，展览中包含了大量的黑白照片和相对较少的自然物体。
Typically, there are many rather than few potential customers.
通常情况下，会有很多的潜在客户。
I like to share special occasions with just one person, or a few close friends, rather than a large group of people.
我喜欢和一个人，或几个特别铁的朋友分享某个特别的时刻，而不是和一群人。
Will it require people with a broad mix of capabilities and skills rather than just a few analysts and programmers?
它是否需要有着很多混合能力和技能的工作人员，而不仅仅只是少数分析人员和程序员？
In some countries, like India, the main problem is likely to be infrastructure bottlenecks: too few airports rather than too few travelers.
在很多国家，像印度，主要的问题很可能是基础设施的瓶颈：机场太少而不是旅客太少。
Application developers may not always be interested in all the default database objects, such as tables, views, procedures, and functions, but rather just a few of them.
应用程序开发人员可能并不总是对所有默认数据库对象，例如表、视图、过程和函数感兴趣，而是对其中的一部分感兴趣。
With the help of a microarray, researchers can query the whole genome at once, rather than just a few genes at a time.
在微数组技术的帮助下，科学家可以从基因组整体的角度而不只是从若干片断上来研究。
Mr Andreessen says he really wants to back “full-spectrum firms” that aim to be outstanding in every operational area, rather than just a few.
安山先生说他很想支持那种致力于在每个管理领域都杰出，而不是仅在一部分领域不错的所谓的“全面公司”。
Let me count the ways - or rather a few of the ways, because there are more howlers in the plan than I can cover in one column.
我来算算——荒谬的理由不在少数，因为这项计划中存在太多荒唐可笑之处，难以在一篇专栏文章中穷尽。
This means reducing GHG emissions from a variety of sources with technologies available in the next few decades, rather than relying on an enormous change in a single area.
它意味着在未来的几十年通过技术减少各种各样的温室气体排放源，而不是依赖单一地区产生的巨大变化。
The whole process is then repeated, with several hundred filters probing for more elaborate shapes rather than just a few scouring for simple ones.
整个过程又重复一次，这次就要用数百个过滤器去搜寻更加复杂的图形，而不只是用少数几个过滤器寻找简单的图形了。
Companies are forming relationships with several outsourcers, rather than putting all their eggs in few baskets.
企业与多个外包公司形成关系而不是把所有的鸡蛋放一个篮子里。
There are as many ways to do this as there are programmers, but as a rule, it is good to build programs from lots of small pieces rather than a few big pieces.
不同的程序员会有不同的实现方式，但作为一种规律，最好是采用多个小的功能块而不是少数几个大的功能块。
You might be surprised at how few of them there are--just a few dozen, rather than the hundreds you might guess.
你可能会惊奇地发现，这些管道很少——只有几十而不是你想像中的几百。
When I recognised the perfect setting for a portrait (that dramatic mountain backdrop) I suggested that my friend take his usual cigarette break there rather than a few hundred meters ahead.
当我发现一个适合拍肖像的完美地点时(有震撼人心的火山作为背景)，我建议他提前几百米点起香烟。
When I recognised the perfect setting for a portrait (that dramatic mountain backdrop) I suggested that my friend take his usual cigarette break there rather than a few hundred meters ahead.
当我发现一个适合拍肖像的完美地点时(有震撼人心的火山作为背景)，我建议他提前几百米点起香烟。
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