“I’m a big believer in less of singing ‘Kumbaya’ together and going on retreats than in rolling up our sleeves and doing work together, ” Mr. Duncan said in an interview.
Duncan在采访中说;“我非常相信我们将不一起唱空巴亚，不一起工作，卷起我们的衣袖而不是退却”。
Less than half of the money that students receive is in the form of grants, and loans have made up the difference.
学生们获得的有不到一半的钱是助学金形式的，贷款补上了不足的部分。
Service in the armed forces gave many Americans a less xenophobic view of the world.
在武装部队的服役使得许多美国人有了较不排外的世界观。
High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.
在工作准备方面，高中学位实际提供的东西远远少于他们应当提供的东西，也少于许多其他国家目前所提供的，这在我们的经济上造成了越来越大的技能差距。
Miriam Nelson chaired the subcommittee in charge of sustainability for the report, and is disappointed that eating less meat and buying local food aren't in the final product.
米里亚姆·纳尔逊是小组委员会主席，负责该报告的可持续性实施。她对最终版本中没有包含少吃肉和购买本地食品这两条措施而感到失望。
Young people can prevent and control myopia by spending more time outside and less time in front of books or computers.
年轻人可以通过多花些时间在户外，少花些时间在书本或电脑前来预防和控制近视。
The average density of interstellar material in the vicinity of our Sun is 1,000 to 10,000 times less than the best terrestrial laboratory vacuum.
在我们的太阳附近，星际物质的平均密度比最好的地球实验室真空还要低1000到10000倍。
It is clear, for example, that the carbon cost of transporting tomatoes from Spain to the UK is less than that of producing them in the UK with additional heating and lighting.
例如，从西班牙运输西红柿到英国的碳成本明显比在英国生产西红柿的碳成本要低，后者需要额外的加热和照明。
The formation of sea ice causes the concentration of salt in surface waters to increase; less sea ice would mean a smaller increase in the concentration of salt.
海冰的形成导致表水中盐的浓度增加；海冰的减少意味着盐浓度的增加幅度较小。
Most of the firefighters were in their twenties and two of them were less than twenty, though several were older.
大多数消防员20多岁，其中两名不到20岁，但也有几名年龄更大。
In January of last year the Moviemania chain of movie theaters started propping its popcorn in canola oil, instead of the less healthful coconut oil that it had been using until then.
去年1月，Moviemania连锁影院开始用菜籽油代替之前一直使用的不太健康的椰子油来制作爆米花。
The arithmetic was discouraging. In less than two months, they had used up six months' worth of food.
数据不容乐观。在不到两个月里，他们已经吃完了6个月的食物。
At the current rate of decline, many of the rain forest animals could become extinct in less than 10 years.
按照目前的下降速度，许多雨林动物不到十年就会绝种。
I abandoned the New York tollway south of Albany in search of roads less costly.
我不走阿尔巴尼南面的纽约收费公路，而去找一些收费不高的道路。
The council's land is now worth much less than originally hoped because of a slump in property prices.
由于地产价格的暴跌，委员会的土地目前大不如原来所希望的那么值钱了。
Some species of Arctic birds are threatened by recent sharp increases in the population of snow geese, which breed in the Arctic and are displacing birds of less vigorous species.
某些种类的北极鸟受到近来雪雁数量急剧增加的威胁，这些雪雁在北极繁殖，并且正在取代生命力较弱的鸟类。
The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career.
对处于职业生涯早期的科学家来说，减薪的影响可能没那么严重。
In the UK, research is concentrated: less than 25% of universities receive 75% of the research funding.
在英国，研究是集中的：不到25%的大学获得了75%的研究经费。
They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.
例如，和住在其他地方的人相比，他们不大可能会出现抑郁症状，也不大可能感到无聊或孤独。
In terms of appearance, kites were frequently designed in the image of a native bird, or a Maori god, and sometimes, perhaps less often, a well-known hero.
就外形而言，风筝通常是按照当地鸟类或毛利神的形象设计的，有时，可能没那么频繁，风筝的形象是一位著名的英雄。
The filter expression will result in a sequence of integers where each is less than 1,000 and divisible by 3 or 5.
该筛选表达式将产生一个整数序列，其中每个整数都小于1000且能被3或5整除。
For today's youth, books, newspapers and magazines have less and less of a presence in their daily lives.
对于今天的年轻人来说，书籍、报纸和杂志在他们的日常生活中存在感越来越低。
The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.
印刷术的直接影响下，手写版就已经流行的书籍得到更多传播，不那么流行的作品却不再传播。
They say that her study doesn't even show that the bacteria would survive in the wild, much less kill massive numbers of plants.
他们说，她的研究甚至没有表明这种细菌能在野外生存，更不用说杀死大量植物了。
In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastage tends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain.
在欠发达国家，如撒哈拉以南的非洲和东南亚国家，（食物）浪费往往主要发生在供应链的农民生产者端。
Some industry members contend that having 50 different sets of rules, licensing fees and even definitions of "medical practice" makes less sense in the era of telemedicine and is hampering its growth.
一些业内人士认为，在远程医疗的时代，50套不同的规则、不同的许可费用甚至是对“医疗实践”的不同定义都没有什么意义，并且阻碍了远程医疗的发展。
In contrast, less than a century later, in 1979, the parents of a three-year-old sued in New York for accidental-death damages and won an award of $750,000.
相比之下，在不到一个世纪后的1979年，一对三岁孩子的父母在纽约起诉意外死亡损害，并赢得了75万美元的赔偿金。
Since potential markets for the minority businesses already exist through the sponsoring companies, the minority businesses face considerably less risk in terms of location and market fluctuation.
由于少数族裔企业的潜在市场已经通过赞助公司而存在，因此少数族裔企业面临的地理位置和市场波动风险要小得多。
Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less the content or quality of that education.
令人惊讶的是，没有人知道有多少孩子在英国医院接受教育，更不用说教育的内容和质量了。
According to Barabasi, it's easier and less risky for those in positions of power to choose to hand awards and funding to those who've already been so recognized.
根据巴拉巴斯的说法，那些掌权者更倾向于选择把奖项和资金交给那些已经得到认可的人手上，风险也更小。
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