If we do less than the quarters, it's a catastrophe.
如果我们进不了四分之一赛，那将会是灾难。
The problem arises when you don't know when to back off, when to rest, and when to do less than planned.
当你不知道什么时候该放弃时，什么时候该休息，及什么时候训练量该少于计划，问题就出来了。
Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
网上和电视上都有很多关于烹饪的信息。现在年轻人在家做饭的次数比老一辈少。
We are still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and a half less each night than North Americans do.
我们仍然在这个项目的探索阶段，尽管值得注意的是，东亚人平均每晚比北美人少睡一个半小时。
Calcium reacts with water but less violently than sodium and potassium do.
钙能与水产生化学反应但不如钠以及钾那么剧烈。
According to the study, teenagers who eat breakfast weigh around 5 pounds less than teenagers who do not.
根据这项研究，吃早餐的青少年比不吃早餐的青少年体重要少5磅左右。
Under normal conditions, rocks composed of clay produce far less friction than do other rock types.
在正常情况下，由粘土组成的岩石产生的摩擦要比其他类型的岩石小得多。
The latest research further confirms that the danger lies less in what a motorist's hands do when he takes a call than in what the conversation does to his brain.
最新研究进一步证实，危险不在于司机接电话时双手的动作，而在于通话对大脑的影响。
Some people may feel that their work is less valuable than others' and do not deserve acknowledgment.
有些人可能觉得自己的工作不如的其他人那么有价值，也不值得肯定。
People who do not smoke have less potential of suffering from lung cancer than those who do so.
不吸烟的人患肺癌的可能性比吸烟的人小。
Summer homes, European travel, BMWs — the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago.
消夏别墅、欧洲旅行、宝马车——地点、地名和品牌也许会有变化，但这类东西在今天被人渴求的程度似乎也不会亚于一二十年前。
Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
艾萨克·牛顿爵士比起河马的体型可小多了，但是我们并不会因此贬低他。
These molecules burn more cleanly than gasoline, in part because they have fewer, if any, carbon-carbon bonds, and the hydrocarbons they do emit are less likely to generate ozone.
这些分子燃烧起来比汽油更干净，部分原因是它们的碳-碳键更少（如果有的话），而且它们排放的碳氢化合物不太可能产生臭氧。
Consequently, people who do not talk very easily may be incorrectly understood as being less agreeable than those who have no difficulty keeping up a conversation.
因此，那些说话不太容易的人可能会被误解为比那些很容易就能保持对话的人更难相处。
That's not the only reason the French eat less than we do.
这不是法国人吃得比我们少的唯一原因。
A survey shows that the young adults who do not have part-time jobs are less prepared for life than those who do.
调查显示，没有兼职工作的年轻人在生活方面不如那些有兼职工作的人准备充分。
Instead, the 19-year-old boy decided to do something for people who were less lucky than himself.
相反，这个19岁的男孩决定为那些没有他幸运的人做些事情。
These molecules burn more cleanly than gasoline, in part because they have fewer, if and, carbon-carbon bonds, and the hydrocarbons they do emit are less likely to generate ozone.
这些分子燃烧起来比汽油更清洁，部分原因是它们的碳-碳键更少或者不存在，而且它们排放的碳氢化合物产生臭氧的可能性更小。
Instead of finding ways to do more than everyone else, find ways to do less.
与其想着怎样比别人做的更多更广，不如想办法做得更少更精。
You can think of those who struggle even harder than you do, against far greater odds, and with far less to work with than you do.
你也可以想一想另外一些人，他们奋斗得比你还要艰难，面临的不利条件要大得多，而且他们的同伴比你的少得多。
But this is unlikely, because most PC manufacturers charge less for netbooks than they do for notebooks, and they make less money on them.
但这一幕不可能发生，因为大多数PC制造商对上网本的要价要比对笔记本电脑的要价来得低，赚的钱也少。
Cockroaches are also poikilotherms, or cold-blooded, meaning they need much less food than humans do.
蟑螂是变温动物，也叫冷血动物，这意味着，与人类相比，他们需要的食物非常少。
Do overweight job applicants approach jobs with less confidence than other candidates?
是不是过重的职业申请者在应征时比其他人缺乏自信？
To call HTTP a stateless protocol (see Resources, below), as we conventionally do, means both more and less than is first apparent.
传统上把HTTP 称为无状态协议（参见参考资料），意味着这或多或少是最明显的特征。
The brains of bright people also use less energy during problem solving than do those of their less able peers.
与相对不那么聪明的人相比，聪明人的大脑在解决问题期间所耗费的能量要低一些。
Some of the new institutions will be less important than others-europe's new banking watchdog will have less to do than the markets supervisor, for instance.
一些新机构比另一些的重要性低一些，就比如说欧洲银行业的新监管机构比起市场监管者来说就没那么多可做的。
In 1996, nearly half of all expats left within three years; today, less than a third do.
在1996年，几乎有一半的外国人在三年之内离开了；今天却不到三分之一。
Spending cuts do less damage than tax rises.
相比税收上涨，开支削减的损害更小。
Whereas over a third of students in Singapore meet PISA's second-to-top maths grade, in Mexico less than 1% do.
新加坡超过三分之一学生数学成绩达到了PISA排名正数第二，而墨西哥达到的人数不足1%。
Whereas over a third of students in Singapore meet PISA's second-to-top maths grade, in Mexico less than 1% do.
新加坡超过三分之一学生数学成绩达到了PISA排名正数第二，而墨西哥达到的人数不足1%。
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