But in recent decades, as less and less rain fell during the wet seasons, Tuareg families struggled to sustain sizable herds.
然而最近数十年，即便在雨季，雨水也越来越少了。图阿·格雷人尽力维持畜群的规模。
Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower wellbeing, as did less time reading print media (newspapers) and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.
运动量少、与同伴聚会少、阅读印刷媒体（即报纸）少都与幸福感较低有关，但令人惊奇的是，做作业的时间少也与幸福感较低相关。
A car can be driven as far on a gallon of the new plant-based fuel as a car can be driven on a gallon of gasoline, but a gallon of the plant-based fuel both costs less and results in less pollution.
汽车使用一加仑这种新植物燃料或一加仑汽油可以开得一样远；但是一加仑植物燃料不但花费少，并且造成的污染更少。
Focus less on what's going on in your mind and more on what's going on in the room, less on your mental chatter and more on yourself as part of something.
少关注你的头脑里在想什么，多关注房间里在发生什么，少关注你脑子里喋喋不休的谈话，多关注作为某些事物一部分的你自己的本身。
When people imagine themselves as advisers and imagine their own choices as belonging to someone else, they feel less tired and rely less on decision shortcuts to make those choices.
如果人们把自己想象成顾问，并把自己的选择想象成为别人做决定时，他们就不会那么累，也不会那么依赖捷径来为这些选择做出决策。
As we grow up, we have less and less chance to have a reunion with our family.
随着我们长大，我们与家人团聚的机会越来越少。
Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall.
佐佐木教授发现，正如预期的那样，参与者们在第一晚的睡眠质量不如第二晚，入睡所需时间是第二晚的两倍多，且总体睡眠时间也更少。
Some women earn almost as much as men before they have children but less afterwards and even less if they are single mothers.
有些妇女在有孩子之前收入几乎与男子相等，但之后收入减少，如果是单身母亲收入就更少。
I don't see that as bad, once you accept this - it means you do less, which is simpler and less stressful.
我不把这些看做弊，一旦接受这一点，就意味着你会减少杂事，这样反而会让你获得更简单，也较少压力。
More and more, Santas say the children on their laps are asking for less for themselves - and Santa is promising less as well.
圣诞老人们表示，孩子们的圣诞愿望如今更少顾及自己，而与此同时，圣诞老人的许诺也越来越少了。
Many people tend to show less affection in public and be less touchy-feely as they grow older.
许多人在公共场合常常较少地表现自己的情感，随着年龄的增长也不那么情感外露了。
We consider things we fear as risky, and similarly we are less concerned (i.e. associate less risk) with things we don't fear. In other words, with apologies to.
我们考虑我们忧虑的事情，同样的我们很少担忧我们不忧虑的事情。
And since Medicare pays by procedure, test, and hospital stay-though less and less each year as the cost squeeze tightens-there is an incentive to do more and more.
而且，既然医保按手续、检查和住院时间支付费用(尽管随着费用紧张加剧，每年越来越少)，那么就存在做越来越多的程序和检查的诱因。
In very lightly loaded systems, pause times are an important component of response times, but the pause times become less and less important as the system becomes heavily loaded.
在负载非常轻的系统中，停顿时间是响应时间的重要部分，但是随着系统负载越来越重，停顿时间也就变得越来越不重要。
Researchers at the University of Rochester encouraged twenty-five residents to rock as much as they like and they became less upset and anxious and required less pain medication.
罗彻斯特大学的研究者鼓励二十五岁常驻居民尽可能多的坐摇椅只要他们喜欢，发现他们变得较少烦躁，焦急并且需要较少的药物治疗。
He was seen less and less as a disinterested researcher, and more and more as a propagandist.
他被视为一个越来越缺少公正的研究员，而越多地被人视作是一个宣传员。
As economies become richer, they can rely less and less on the brute force of capital spending, coupled with a steady flow of cheap rural migrants, to fuel their expansion.
随着新兴经济体越来越富，他们会越来越少地依赖资本支出的强势支撑，再加上廉价农村劳动力源源不断的输入，又刺激了他们的扩张。
In my work with mock juries, we found that attorneys, or for that matter witnesses, that hide their hands are perceived as less open and less honest by the jurors.
在和模拟陪审团一起工作时发现，如果律师或事件的目击者把手藏起来，陪审员就会觉得他们不坦率，不真诚。
As they have less and less access to port services — and to the markets reached through ports — profits will drop, and the incentive to perpetuate illegal activity starts to disappear.
随着他们享受港口服务——以及通过港口进入市场——的机会越来越少，利润将会降低，继续非法活动的动力便开始消失。
There are also many benefits to being a minimalist such as reducing your impact on the environment by buying less, using less and being more efficient with your energy usage.
成为一个极简主义者有很多好处，如通过买更少的东西，用更少的东西来减少你对环境的影响，能源使用的更有效。
As I did all along, I remained somewhat afraid of the process of dying, of increasing weakness and fatigue, of pain, of becoming less and less of myself as I got there.
我始终不畏惧死亡，不过我还是有点害怕死亡的过程，它让我变得虚弱、它让我体验到了疲倦和疼痛、它让我渐渐失去知觉。
As you add more and more users, you learn less and less because you will keep seeing the same things again and again.
随着加入用户的数量越来越多，你可以获得有价值的反馈越来越少，因为你会不停的看到重复的事情。
As we iteratively refactored the entire code base, we depended less and less on the workarounds until they were ultimately retired from service.
随着我们对整个代码库进行一次次的重组，我们对变通方案的依赖也越来越小直至最后它们退役。
The fact that most of this material will be available free, if we want to tend it, back it up, keep adding to it, and organize it, will be less and less appealing as time goes on.
相比于我们自己照料、备份、添加、组织这些内容（的麻烦），随着时光流逝，能够免费获得大部分内容这件事会变得越来越没有吸引力。
In most other cases, as the idea of regulation began to seem less legitimate, regulators became less effective and companies felt more free to ignore them.
在大部分其他的例子中，随着立法的思路变得更不合法，立法委员就变得更加没有权威，而公司也会愈加地忽略他们。
Over time, the United States has expected less and less of its elite, even as society has oriented itself in a way that is most likely to maximize their income.
随着时间的推移，美国已经不对精英阶层抱什么希望了，甚至社会已经把自己定位为在某种程度上使精英阶层收入最大化。
Turns out the students listening to blaring static rated the chips as less salty and the cookies as less sweet-even though they were tasting the same foods as the other groups.
研究结果发现那些伴随响亮噪声的学生觉得薯片变淡，甜点也变的不那么甜了——即使他们所吃的食物与其他组的一模一样。
Men with square jaws, larger noses and smaller eyes were classed as significantly more dominant, less faithful, worse parents and as having less warm personalities.
方下巴、大鼻子、小眼睛的男人被认为更具控制力、不够忠诚、育儿能力较差以及性格不够温和。
Mice genetically engineered to lack these proteins gain less weight and are less susceptible to metabolic diseases such as diabetes than are regular mice.
比起一般的老鼠，通过基因工程改造而缺少这种蛋白质的老鼠体重增加的更少，而且更不容易获得如糖尿病之类的代谢疾病。
Haggis was a workaholic, and as his career took off he spent less and less time with his family.
哈吉斯是个工作狂，随着事业的起飞，他陪伴家人的时间越来越少。
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