The north pole is warmer than the south and the circulation of air around it is less well contained.
北极比南极温暖，其周围的空气循环更为畅通。
He served less than a year of a five-year prison sentence, but was permanently exiled from the sport.
他5年刑期只服了1年不到，但被永远逐出了体育界。
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。
In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course.
康奈尔大学远程教学部eCornell的调查结果显示，不到三分之一的受访者期待网络课程的质量和传统课堂一样好。
Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay.
许多招生官员表示，他们在每份申请（包括论文申请）上花的时间不到几分钟。
In Mississippi, where centers must hire one teacher for every five infants, the price of care averaged less than $5,000.
在密西西比州，中心必须为每五个婴儿聘请一名教师，护理费用平均不到5000美元。
Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models.
一些能效最高的冰箱比传统型号少消耗70%的电。
Briefly, no less than nine of our agents have passed information to us.
简言之,至少已经有9位我们的代理商将信息传递给了我们。
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。
China's ethnic minorities constitute less than 7 percent of its total population.
中国的少数民族构成总人口的不到7%。
The interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.
面试并非如她想象的那样可怕。
The guide contains details of no less than 115 hiking routes.
这本导游指南包括多达115条徒步旅行路线的详细介绍。
Parliament sits for less than six months of the year.
议会一年的开会时间不足六个月。
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。
Analysts predict that Digital will price the new line at less than half the cost of comparable IBM mainframes.
分析家们预测迪吉多公司会将其新线产品的价格定在低于可比的IBM公司大型主机成本的一半的水平。
She got much less than she would have done if she had settled out of court.
她得到的远不如她若庭外和解得到的多。
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。
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。
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。
Some 40% of Americans get less than 7 hours of shut-eye on week nights.
大约40%的美国人在工作日晚上的睡眠时间不足7小时。
Nevertheless, there is an alternative point of view that is concerned less with standards than with the facts of linguistic usage.
然而，另一种观点关注的不是标准，而是语言使用的事实。
She says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.
她说，研究结果仍然表明，从那些不够突出的推荐信开始，女性在地球科学领域工作的职业生涯的一开始就处于潜在的不利位置。
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。
You see, we get very low wages, most of the time less than the minimum wage.
你看，我们的工资很低，大多数时候都低于最低工资。
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.
美国的教育体制不再是通往机遇的阶梯，而是一个将不平等代代相传的体系。
Today, a quarter of college graduates make less than the typical worker without a bachelor's degree.
今天，有四分之一的大学毕业生收入低于没有学士学位的普通工人。
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。
Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41% have taken arts classes.
在收入低于3万美元的家庭中，59%的孩子参加过体育活动，37%的孩子做过志愿者，41%的孩子上过艺术课。
Data has since revealed that all mass strandings around Australia occur on gently sloping sandy beaches, some with inclines of less than 0.5%.
此后的数据显示，澳大利亚周围所有的大规模搁浅都发生在平缓倾斜的沙质海滩上，有些海滩的倾斜度小于0.5%。
We are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth.
我们是这个世界的奇迹和神秘，因为持久的自由和地球的富饶一样是一种祝福。
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