Although the climate remained as unpredictable as ever between one year and the next, it became much less locally diverse.
尽管在这一年到下一年之间，气候仍然像以往一样难以预测，但当地的多样性已经大大减少。
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。
As is often the case with human beings, many animals sleep a lot when young, but sleep much less when they get older.
和人类一样，许多动物年幼时睡得多，但长大后睡少了很多。
Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.
教育程度较低的父母、较穷的父母、黑人和拉美裔父母更可能认为：对孩子的教育而言，没有所谓的过分干预。
It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought.
在地铁或公共汽车上，一个身强力壮的男学生在冲向最后一个座位时，用胳膊肘把老妇人推到一边，这算不了什么，更不用说他本应站起来给她让座了。
As a result of this and also of the fact that workers' jobs were generally much less secure, distinct differences in life-styles and attitudes came into existence.
由于这一点，以及工人的工作普遍不太稳定这一事实，生活方式和态度出现了明显的差异。
They found that the aircraft consumed as much as 15% less fuel (coupled with a reduction in carbon dioxide output).
他们发现，飞机消耗的燃料减少了15%（同时二氧化碳排放量也减少了）。
One day, he gave up his job and moved to a ranch in Texas, making much less money as a cowboy.
有一天，他辞了职，搬到德克萨斯州的一个牧场，当牛仔赚的钱少了很多。
Copied books are as good as copyrighted ones, but they don't cost much, usually less than half the price.
复印书和正版书一样好，但它们的成本并不高，通常不到一半的价格。
To be on the safe side, the researchers suggest that we should use computers less than before, or turn down our screens as much as possible before sleeping.
安全起见，研究人员建议，我们应该比以前更少使用电脑，或者在睡觉前尽可能地把屏幕亮度调低。
So we play out this charade of happy families and most of the time life trundles along much as before, more or less happily.
因此我们维持着这字谜般的快乐家庭，大部分时候生活与以前没什么不同地——多多少少快乐地—— 向前滚动着。
The analysis shows that losses in rents would be much less than is commonly expected, as high production costs eat up much of the potential benefit from preferential access to the high-price markets.
分析表明，租金损失会比普遍预期的要少得多，因为高生产成本吞噬了对高价格市场的优惠准入可能带来的大部分收益。
This doesn't affect the file size as much but requires less memory for the user agent to decompress the image into a pixel map.
这虽然不大会增加文件大小但对于用户代理来说它需要更少的内存来把图片解压为像素地图。
You'll think you're eating as much as before, but in fact you're eating less.
你会觉得你吃的像以前一样多，但其实你的食量已经减小了。
He says the pressure is now much less than during his 10 years as prime minister.
他表示现在的压力比他作为首相的十年间的压力要小的多。
The South had much less industry and fewer railroads. It could not produce as much military equipment, and it could not transport supplies as easily as the North could.
南方没有更多的工业，铁路线也很少，南方不能像北方那样生产那么多的军事装备，而且南方的铁路运输也没有北方那么方便。
But if the progressive proposal has all these virtues, why isn't it getting anywhere near as much attention as the much less serious Ryan proposal?
然而，既然这份进步提案具有那么多的好处，为什么它得到的关注并不比那份认真负责程度很低的瑞安提案多多少？
In experimental plots the plants often need less than half as much nitrogen to achieve the same yield-or get 25% more yield for the same nitrogen.
在试验田里，作物通常只需要不到一半的氮就可以达到同样的产量—或者在施同样多氮肥的情况下，产量提高25%。
Their metabolism remained high despite being less hungry and not eating as much as normal mice.
虽然吃的不像正常老鼠那么多，也不那么饥饿，这些老鼠的新陈代谢依然旺盛。
On the other hand, none of my friends so much as own a personal blog, much less partake in professional blogging.
而另一方面，我的朋友里没有人像这样用心拥有一个私人博客，更别说参加专业博客。
Use of tiny, tiny fonts (10 pt or less) so as to cram as much information into the resume as possible.
为了在简历上多放点信息，使用很小很小的字体(10号字体甚至更小)。
As a thought exercise, co-evolution has been around for less than a decade, or as much as 30 years, depending on who you ask.
作为一种思潮，联合进化理论已经出现了至少十年，或者将近30年——这基于你向谁提出这个问题。
However it is much less divisive than before as this generation of fathers (under 40) are much more involved with their children.
然而，由于这一代父亲(小于40岁)更多地照看孩子，这样反而更不会引起夫妻不和。
Waterfall development processes are much less flexible and don't provide as many early warnings of high risk.
瀑布式的开发过程有很少的灵活性，并且不会为你提供高风险的很多早期警告。
The benefits of virtual SCSI devices are much the same as virtual disk; less hardware expense and not needing to dedicate a device to each partition.
虚拟scsi设备的好处与虚拟磁盘几乎相同；更少的硬件费用，不需要为每个分区专门配置设备。
Tests express that understanding in a much less ambiguous form, as code that executes reliably and repeatedly.
测试以更明确的方式表述这种理解，并以可靠和重复执行的代码加以表示。
Online activists in many places have much less freedom than they did four years ago as well.
许多地方的网上活动家也比四年前不自由多了。
Rich countries use less than half as much oil as they did in 1970 for each inflation-adjusted dollar of GDP.
由通胀调整后的以美金计算GDP中，富裕国家所使用的石油还不到1970年代的一半。
Roughly speaking, it costs less than half as much to travel today and nearly three times as many people are traveling.
大致说来，如今人们乘飞机出行的费用是从前的一半不到，而如今的乘客人数则是过去的近三倍。
Roughly speaking, it costs less than half as much to travel today and nearly three times as many people are traveling.
大致说来，如今人们乘飞机出行的费用是从前的一半不到，而如今的乘客人数则是过去的近三倍。
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