Many caged birds live longer than their fellows in the wild.
许多笼中鸟比野外同类鸟的寿命长。
Are bosses happier than their employees?
老板比他们的员工更快乐吗？
Parasites are usually smaller than their hosts.
寄生虫通常比它们的宿主小。
In practice, women are paid much lower than their male colleagues.
实际上女性收到的报酬比她们的男同事要低得多。
As a result, fast-food chains have weathered the recession better than their more expensive competitors.
结果，快餐连锁店比其他价格更高的竞争对手们更好地度过了这一经济衰退时期。
In a large number of cases factory workers earn as much, if not more, than their middle-class supervisors.
在很多情况下，工厂工人的收入与他们的中产阶级主管的收入相比，如果不是更高也会相等。
Consequently, they are probably more concerned than their predecessors were about job security and economic benefits.
因此，他们可能比他们的前任更关心工作保障和经济利益。
For school children, their teachers have more influence on their intelligence and social development than their parents.
对于在校儿童来说，他们的老师比他们的父母对他们的智力和社交发展有更大的影响。
The team found that these fish horizontal cells are thousands of times less light sensitive than their partner cone cells.
研究小组发现这些鱼的水平细胞对光线的敏感度比它们的同伴锥细胞弱数千倍。
High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross, had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools.
米拉卡·格罗斯对澳大利亚的高智商儿童进行研究，发现他们对家庭表现出的积极情绪要比他们对学校表现出的积极情绪多得多。
Usually, it is possible to conclude that the inclusions are older than their diamond hosts, but with little indication of the time interval involved.
通常情况下，有可能得出包裹体比其金刚石寄主更古老的结论，但几乎没有说明所涉及的时间间隔。
Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.
这些孩子经常认为他们知道的比老师多，他们的老师经常觉得这些孩子傲慢，漫不经心，或没有动力。
Livestock could be driven across the mountains, but the cost of transporting bulky grains in this fashion was several times greater than their value in eastern markets.
牲畜可以被赶过山区，但以这种方式运输大量谷物的成本要比它们在东部市场的价值高出好几倍。
Improvements in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century, for example, gave today's elderly people a better start in life than their predecessors.
例如，二十世纪开始的二十多年中儿童营养状况改善，使今天的老年人比他们的先辈有了更好的人生起点。
Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment than their parents, UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don't continue.
尽管墨西哥移民的孩子在教育和职业成就方面比他们的父母做得更好，加州大学洛杉矶分校的社会学家爱德华·特勒斯发现这种增长不会持续下去。
They realized that some of their prices were higher than their competitors' and revised prices accordingly.
他们意识到他们的部分价格比竞争对手的高，就相应地调整了价格。
Children tend to imitate their parents more than their teachers.
相比模仿老师，孩子更倾向于模仿父母。
In literacy, they were actually doing better than their peers in other countries.
在读写能力方面，他们实际上比其他国家的同龄人做得更好。
However, Martian craters get filled in considerably faster than their lunar counterparts.
然而，火星陨石坑被填满的速度比月球陨石坑快很多。
Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease.
澳大利亚运动团队赢得的奖项数量超出平均水平，对手在他们面前似乎不堪一击。
As internal messages, memorandums tend to be more informal and more direct than their letter counterparts.
作为内部信息，备忘录往往比信函更不正式、更直接。
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