Sometimes a nor'easter can be worse than a hurricane.
一场东北风暴有时比一次飓风还糟糕。
Nothing gives a room a faster facelift than a coat of paint.
没有什么比一层油漆能更快地使房间面貌一新。
In real terms the cost of driving is cheaper than a decade ago.
驾车的实际花费比10年前要少。
A search on Google for "free ring tones" yields more than a million sites.
在谷歌上搜索“免费铃声”会得到超过一百万个网址。
It was a jest rather than a reproach.
这是个玩笑而非指责。
They make no more than a mutter of protest.
他们不过是小声抗议了一下。
I wanted it to be more than a one-night stand.
我要的不只是一夜情缘。
Unleaded petrol rose more than a penny a gallon.
无铅汽油每加仑涨了一个多便士。
More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan.
一英尺多厚的白雪覆盖了密歇根州的部分地区。
A bicycle is often more convenient than a car in towns.
在城镇骑自行车常常比开车更方便。
Kazakhstan alone contains more than a hundred nationalities.
单是哈萨克斯坦就有一百多个民族。
For some buildings a vertical section is more informative than a plan.
对一些建筑物来说，垂直剖面图比平面图提供的信息更多。
It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days.
这是我和简第一次分开超过了几天。
The Japanese routinely purchase more than a third of U.S. Treasury Bills.
日本通常购买三分之一以上的美国短期国债。
I think I put more expression into my lyrics than a lot of other singers do.
我认为我比许多其他歌手在歌词中注入了更多的情感表达。
The radio only weighs a few ounces and is smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
这个收音机只有几盎司重，比一包香烟还小。
The arrangement was more a formality than a genuine partnership of two nations.
这种安排与其说是两国间真正的伙伴关系的表现，还不如说是装样子。
You end up with a mishmash of policies rather than a consistent national approach.
你最后得到的是一些杂会七杂八的政策，而不是统一的全国性措施。
Current thinking holds that obesity is more a medical than a psychological problem.
现代观点认为肥胖更多是生理问题而不是心理问题。
In 1989 and 1990 demand outstripped supply, and prices went up by more than a third.
1989和1990年，需求大于供给，物价上涨了三分之一多。
I was so hungry all the time that I could not keep the diet up for longer than a month.
我总是饿，所以我的节食一个月后就继续不下去了。
This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
这笔交易只不过是对自然景观持续破坏行为的遮掩而已。
The last two clauses were an exact quote rather than a paraphrase of Mr. Forth's remarks.
最后两个分句是对福思先生言论的准确引用而不是改述。
Selective breeding may result in a greyhound running faster and seeing better than a wolf.
选择育种可能会培育出一种比狼跑得更快、视力更好的灵缇。
More than a third of workers said they called into the office while technically on holiday.
三分之一以上的员工说他们在按规定休假期间被召回过办公室。
They opted to put an executive committee in charge of the project rather than a single person.
他们选择由一个执行委员会而非个人来负责这个项目。
Heat the liquid in a large, wide container rather than a high narrow one, or it can boil over.
液体加热时要放进宽大的容器里，不要放进细长的容器里，否则它会溢出来。
It's his parents' choice to send him to a boarding school, rather than a convenient day school.
把他送到寄宿学校而不是去附近的走读学校，是他父母的决定。
In the second race, the American competitor edged out the Ethiopian runner by less than a second.
在第二场赛跑中，美国选手比埃塞俄比亚选手快不到1秒钟。
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。
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