In Britain households saved 6.3% of their disposable income in 2009 (though less in the first half of 2010), compared with 2% in 2008. Nor is the frugality limited to households.
英国的家庭在2009年节省下了他们可支配收入的6.3%(虽然比2010年前半年要少),但是2008年他们只节省了2%。
While I don't advocate going naked (though some do it) nor do I recommend just owning one outfit, it is possible to own less clothing than most people have.
我并不赞成裸奔,也不推荐仅有一套外套,但对多数人来说衣物还是可以再少一些。
Once they cohabit, they will get themselves into the embarrassing situation which is neither romance nor marriage. They will then have less romance and more economic burden.
一旦同居,双方就转化为一种既不是恋爱又不是婚姻的尴尬关系,少了恋爱的浪漫,却多了经济上的负担。
Consumers are certainly spending less, but they are not giving up travel, nor are they turning away from the Web sites that offer them the selection and convenience they value.
消费者自然减少了支出,但他们并未放弃旅行,他们也不会拒绝那些提供他们重视的丰富选择和便利性的旅游网站。
The eyes are fixed on mine with an infinite gravity which is not reproach, nor hate, nor menace, nor anything less terrible than recognition.
她的双眼盯着我,那么的庄重,并不是责备,并不是仇恨,更不是威胁,或其他任何比认出我来更恐怖的表情。
A true friend will be eager to help and will not think any less of you, nor make you feel diminished for asking.
真正的朋友是乐于帮助你的并且不会为此而小瞧你,或者让你因为寻求帮助而感到低微。
Yet the house in the mountains, the house by the sea, and the friends in the city are not neglected, nor are these young women found less attractive because of their special accomplishments.
不论你是住在山区还是海边还是城市,你都不会被忽略,同样那些年轻的因为她们特殊的造诣而魅力四射的女人。
And I respond to all her questions in a natural, positive voice with the information she's looking for, and with neither more nor less, since too much too soon can confuse her.
我以一种自然、积极的口吻回答了她所有的问题,告诉她所寻求的答案,而且是不多不少,因为太多太快,她会搞混的。
North American ethanol is mostly made from corn (maize), which is less efficient, and often produced in distilleries powered by coal; it is thus neither as cheap nor as environmentally benign.
北美的乙醇大多数来自谷物(玉米),效率较低而且常常在以煤为动力的蒸馏厂里生产出来;所以它既不便宜也不环保。
Sure, the result would not necessarily be meaningful -- a string is neither objectively less than nor greater than a float.
当然,结果不一定是有意义的 —— 比如字符串和浮点数的比较就没有意义。
This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the wolf.
这人神气的凶恶可怕,比起容德雷特来也差不了多少,有时我们遇见一头恶狗并不比遇见狼更放心。
In a cooler world, this sort of high pressure over Russia would be less likely to result in such a dramatic heatwave; nor, probably, would the floods in Pakistan have been so bad.
在更冷的世界里,俄罗斯上空的这种高气压压本不可能导致如此剧烈的热浪;而且巴基斯坦的洪灾情况也本不可能如此严峻。
This shouldn't be interpreted as China thinks less of the ongoing issues nor as we purposely ignore the practical issues or specific problems that we have in the existing China-EU relations.
这并不意味着中方忽视眼下的中欧关系,忽略中欧关系中存在的现实和具体问题。
The firm insists this has neither cannibalised sales of its other chips as much as feared nor put pressure on its lofty margins, since Atom costs less to make.
这家公司坚持认为,由于Atom的低制造成本,这种状况既未影响其他芯片的销量,也未降低其丰厚的利润率。
Materials applied as purely as possible, plain concrete for walls and floors, pinewood boards for the façade without varnish nor painting and for the outdoor terraces raw paint less pinewood boards.
材料尽可能得纯粹,墙壁和地板采用普通混凝土,立面使用没有清漆和涂料的松木板,室外露台采用原漆较少的松木板。
WebWork and Spring MVC are two other Model 2 architectures that improve on Struts by being less procedural, but neither is as widely accepted (nor as mature, some would argue) as Struts.
WebWork和SpringMVC是另外两个Model2架构,它们通过更加不像过程化的,在Struts的基础上有所改进,但是它们仍然没有Struts那样被广泛接受(或者没有那么成熟,有人可能对此有争议)。
Nor is there any sign of a big pickup in commodity prices; the Dow Jones AIG index is above its recent low on March 2nd but is still less than half last July's peak.
3月2号的道琼斯aig指数超过了最近的低点,但仍不足去年6月峰值的一半。
Humility does not mean much to others less for himself, nor does it mean that admits he is an incompetent generation, but it does mean that fundamentally the themselves indifferent.
谦卑并不意味着多顾他人少顾自己,也不意味着承认自己是个无能之辈,而是意味着从根本上把自己置之度外。
What management forgets by "downsizing" is that if they run a business that is neither effective nor efficient, things will only get worse with less people expected to work harder.
通过“裁员”进行管理的管理人士忽略了这一点:如果他们经营一个没有活力和没有效率的公司,公司里很少有人希望努力工作,情况会变得更糟。
For eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep, and I suppose you need neither education nor training to get you through that third of your life.
其中大约有八个小时要睡觉,我想这三分之一的时间,你既不需要培训也不必受教育。
Contrary to the popular belief, advertising makes our shopping experience neither less time-consuming nor more economical.
与大众观点相反,广告让购物变得既没有少花费时间又没有更加经济了。
To save Antonio's life, his fiancee Portia disguised as lawyers, she consents Shylock's request, but by a pound meat must cut a pound of flesh is not much, nor less, more not bleed.
为救安东尼奥的性命,巴萨尼奥的未婚妻鲍西娅假扮律师出庭,她答允夏洛克的要求,但要求所割的一磅肉必须正好是一磅肉,不能多也不能少,更不准流血。
Birth order, they found, had no effect on personality: first-borns were no more, nor less, likely than their younger sibs to be conscientious, extrovert or neurotic.
最终他们发现,出生顺序对性格没有影响:头胎可能和弟弟妹妹一样认真,外向或情绪稳定。
Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike, and there is no more of it in one place than in another , to hinder it from holding together, nor less of it , but everything is full of what is.
存在者也是不可分的,因为它全部都是一样的,没有哪个地方比另一个地方多些,妨碍它的连续,也没有哪里少些。
It is not an expression of taste. Nor is it careful judgment. Yet it may contain elements of both. It is a view or belief more or less casually arrived at, with or without examining the evidence.
它既不是个人口味的表达,也不是深思熟虑后的判断,但却可能包含这两种部分,它或许只是一种随意之间产生的或看法,可能有证据,也有可能没有证据。
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
他自己的生活越简单,宇宙的规律也就越显得简单,寂寞将不成其为寂寞,贫困将不成其为贫困,软弱将不成其为软弱。
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
他自己的生活越简单,宇宙的规律也就越显得简单,寂寞将不成其为寂寞,贫困将不成其为贫困,软弱将不成其为软弱。
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