Summer homes, European travel, BMWs — the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago.
消夏别墅、欧洲旅行、宝马车——地点、地名和品牌也许会有变化，但这类东西在今天被人渴求的程度似乎也不会亚于一二十年前。
Destroying old stock is a practice not just of luxury brands but of less prestigious fashion brands.
不仅仅是奢侈品品牌会销毁旧库存，不太知名的时尚品牌也会这么做。
Other kinds of corn have less water and do not pop. When you heat a seed of corn, the water inside makes the corn explode.
其他种类的玉米水分少，不易爆开。当你加热一粒玉米种子时，里面的水会使玉米爆炸。
If you're moderately exercising for 150 minutes a week, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends, or less than that, you're probably not an extreme athlete.
如果你像美国疾病控制与预防中心建议的那样，每周适度锻炼150分钟，或者少于150分钟，你可能就不是一个极限运动员。
Consequently, people who do not talk very easily may be incorrectly understood as being less agreeable than those who have no difficulty keeping up a conversation.
因此，那些说话不太容易的人可能会被误解为比那些很容易就能保持对话的人更难相处。
He not only helped his own family, but he also held out a helping hand to many other men less fortunate than himself.
他不仅帮助自己的家庭，而且还伸出援助之手帮助许多比他不幸的人。
If a microwave oven is not an option, gas ovens are generally less carbon-intensive than electric.
除了微波炉之外，煤气灶的碳强度通常来说也比电炉低。
That does not lessen the shock value for a modern reader, even though war in our time is no less savage and no less brutal.
对于现在读者，它的震惊效果并未削弱，尽管现代的战争不再那样野蛮残忍。
In boxing, we have already seen numerous, dubious world title categories because people will not pay to see anything less than a "World Title" fight.
在拳击中我们已经看到了大量可疑的具有世界头衔类别的比赛，这是因为人们不会花钱看任何次于“世界头衔”类别的格斗。
Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
艾萨克·牛顿爵士比起河马的体型可小多了，但是我们并不会因此贬低他。
A survey shows that the young adults who do not have part-time jobs are less prepared for life than those who do.
调查显示，没有兼职工作的年轻人在生活方面不如那些有兼职工作的人准备充分。
"To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone," she says.
她说：“坐下来，有人看着我，像对待一个人而不是一种疾病一样和我说话，我从中感受到了关心，不再那么孤独。”
More process typically leads to less creativity, not more, so you should use less process in the beginning of a project where uncertainty is an everyday factor.
更多的过程往往导致较少的创造性，而不是更多，因此你应当在项目初始，不确定性是最常见因素之时使用较少的过程。
The incentives facing doctors are even more perverse. Most doctors are not paid a fixed salary, still less rewarded for better health outcomes.
对于医生们的激励机制则更加离谱，支付给大部分医生的薪酬都不是固定的，甚至会有行医更出色的医生奖筹却更少。
The latest takeover in the industry, announced this week, is smaller, less spectacular and not much of a surprise.
本周，能源工业最新的一起并购被宣布。这是一桩“小买卖”，没有掀起太大的波澜。
Asking for help does not imply you're stupid, inferior or somehow less of a person.
向别人寻求帮助并不意味你很笨很愚蠢，低人一等或者个人有什么缺陷。
When they do they have an incredible impact, but when they don't, they are not simply a bit less effective: they discredit the promulgating authority.
他们这样做时有一个不可思议的影响，但他们不这样做，他们不是一点效果没有。
When it was less of a mainstream activity it was not so connected to the wider economic cycle.
当它进行较少的涉及主流活动时，它也就与经济圈的紧密性就不是那么高了。
So much of what we waste our energy on will not matter even a year from now, much less for eternity.
许多浪费我们精力的事物，一年后，这些事已变得无关紧要，更谈不上有任何永恒价值了。
An SOA team, however, should not fear that compliance will be compromised by using a less-known product or framework.
但是，一个SOA团队不应该害怕使用一种不知名的产品或者框架，将会损害一致性。
Here, for Update 21, "not a single node" means that there is less than one node, meaning none.
对于更新21，“不是单一节点”意味着节点数少于1，也就是没有节点。
Of course, real contracts are written in a language and may not unambiguously define such a function - not its domain or range, much less the function itself.
当然，真实的合同是以语言的形式写的而且可能会含糊的定义这个函数，不光是它的范围和领域，还可能是函数本身。
Online video is still not a serious competitor, partly because viewers are less tolerant of ads, partly because much of it is poor.
在线视频还不算得上是对手，其中一个原因是观众不大喜欢植入广告，另外一点是很多此类广告制作低劣。
A less attachment in export will not only help adjust imbalance within these countries, but also in the whole world.
减轻对出口的依赖，不仅有助于解决这些国家内部失衡，也终将有可能应对全球失衡。
The reason smaller people use more energy is not due to a different gait or a less efficient metabolic rate per stride.
小个子人需要消耗更多的能量并不是因为步伐的不同或者每步较低的代谢率。
This is not hard when using a more or less reasonable editor (showing line changes, for example), but needs to be incorporated into the workflow.
你可以使用一个普通的文本编辑器来做到这一点，不过需要集成到工作流程中来。
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。
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。
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