The president now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
总统现在看起来是一个比一星期前刚就任时更多历练、更少自信的政客了。
It's a fallacy that the affluent give relatively more to charity than the less prosperous.
富人比不太有钱的人给慈善机构相对更多捐赠是一种谬见。
As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.
作为一个群体，总体来说，“夜猫子”型的人往往比早起的人吃的健康食品更少，摄入的卡路里更多。
Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.
Mies的口头禅意味着少用装饰、安排得当，比用很多（装饰）效果更明显。
A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.
去年发表在《美国临床营养学期刊》上的一项研究发现，睡眠多的人比他们睡眠较少的同龄人更少吃不健康的食品。
Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy.
即使是一个生态效率高得多的工业系统，如果它发展得更大，也会比更小、更不生态效率的经济产生更多的垃圾，破坏更多的栖息地和物种。
Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.
过去几年的卫星观测和潜艇调查显示，极地地区的冰层减少了，但最近的测量显示，冰层的减少量比之前设想的更为明显。
A previous study found that because immigrants typically earn less than locals with similar skills, they boost corporate profits, prompting companies to grow and hire more locals.
之前的一项研究发现，由于移民通常比拥有类似技能的本地人挣得少，他们提高了企业利润，促使企业增长并雇用更多的本地人。
A new study found that inner-city kids living in neighborhoods with more green space gained about 13% less weight over a two-year period than kids living amid more concrete and fewer trees.
一项新的研究发现，在两年的时间里，与住在钢筋水泥更多、树木较少的社区的孩子相比，住在市中心有更多绿地的社区里的孩子，两年中增加的体重少了约13%。
A more disturbing trend in America today is that teens are spending far less time reading than around four decades ago.
当今美国一个更令人不安的趋势是，青少年花在阅读上的时间比40年前要少得多。
This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home.
这一插曲让一个具有讽刺意味的事实变得更加明显：尽管在公共场合美国男性往往比女性说得多，但在家里他们却往往说得少。
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。
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter, "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
“你的意思是你不能少拿，”帽商说，“多拿比不拿容易。”
It rains a lot less than Seattle and the rain is spread out over more days than those cities.
这里的降雨量比西雅图少得多，而且降雨持续时间也比那些城市更长。
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。
Blue asbestos is far less common in buildings, which is just as well because it's more dangerous than white asbestos.
蓝色的石棉在建筑中要少见得多，幸好是这样，因为它比白色石棉更危险。
It was uncommon to find means of transport that were more efficient than walking but less technologically advanced than motor vehicles.
"很少能找到比步行更有效率但是在技术上不比机动车先进的交通工具。
Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to examine, but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes.
通常，一百个样本要花费实验技术员超过两天的时间来检测，但是一只老鼠只需要花费不到二十分钟。
Species with similar DNA sequences for these genes are generally more closely related to each other than to species with less-similar DNA sequences.
与DNA序列不太相似的物种相比，这些基因的 DNA 序列相似的物种之间的关系通常更密切。
"Maybe we should spend less money trying to figure out who is better than who," he said, suggesting that some more equal dividing up of money might be more productive and more efficient.
“也许我们应该花更少的钱来弄清楚谁比谁好。”他说。他认为，更公平地分配金钱可能会更有成效，更有效率。
However, since methanol-fueled vehicles could be designed to be much more efficient than "gasoline clone" vehicles fueled with methanol, they would need comparatively less fuel.
然而，由于以甲醇为燃料的车辆在设计上可以比以甲醇为燃料的“汽油克隆”车辆效率高得多，因此它们所需的燃料相对较少。
Supporters of home education claim that it is less expensive and far more efficient than mass public education.
家庭教育的支持者声称，家庭教育比大众公共教育成本更低，效率更高。
Many respondents rate women with golden hair with less intelligent than other people, and red heads as more temperamental.
许多受访者认为金色头发的女性不如其他人聪明，而红头发的女性更容易情绪化。
Farmers learned that peas and beans were far less vulnerable to the insects, and corn was a more robust grain than wheat.
农民们了解到豌豆和豆子对昆虫的抵抗力要小得多，而玉米是一种比小麦更强壮的谷物。
The middle child is influenced by many variables; however, middles are less likely to take initiative and more anxious and self-critical than others.
老二比较多变，然而，老二不太可能主动，也比其他人更焦虑、更易自我批判。
Compared with the rest of the population, older people are also more likely to own their own homes and be less mobile than renters, who can move to new job markets.
与其他人口相比，老年人更有可能拥有自己的房子，他们的流动性也比租房的人小，因为后者可能转移到新的就业市场。
One study found that if you are interviewed by someone of the same sex, they may be less likely to employ you if they judge that you are more attractive than they are.
一项研究发现，如果你被同性面试，如果他们认为你比他们更有吸引力，他们就不太可能雇用你。
The descending rock is substantially cooler than the surrounding mantle and hence is less ductile and much more liable to fracture.
下降的岩石比周围的地幔的温度低很多，因此延展性较小，更容易断裂。
Given their combined market value of more than $5.5 trillion, rifling through such small deals—many of them much less prominent than Wunderlist and Sunrise—might seem beside the point.
考虑到它们的总市值超过5.5万亿美元，浏览这些小交易（其中许多远不如 Wunderlist和Sunrise那么重要）可能显得无关紧要。
I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.
接下来我所说的可能会让事情变得更复杂，那就是，老年人住在什么样的设施里这个问题，可能并没有我们想的那么重要。
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