Many caged birds live longer than their fellows in the wild.
许多笼中鸟比野外同类鸟的寿命长。
Kids count more than their colleges.
孩子比他们的大学更重要。
Are bosses happier than their employees?
老板比他们的员工更快乐吗？
Parasites are usually smaller than their hosts.
寄生虫通常比它们的宿主小。
As a result, fast-food chains have weathered the recession better than their more expensive competitors.
结果，快餐连锁店比其他价格更高的竞争对手们更好地度过了这一经济衰退时期。
In a large number of cases factory workers earn as much, if not more, than their middle-class supervisors.
在很多情况下，工厂工人的收入与他们的中产阶级主管的收入相比，如果不是更高也会相等。
Consequently, they are probably more concerned than their predecessors were about job security and economic benefits.
因此，他们可能比他们的前任更关心工作保障和经济利益。
For school children, their teachers have more influence on their intelligence and social development than their parents.
对于在校儿童来说，他们的老师比他们的父母对他们的智力和社交发展有更大的影响。
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。
High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross, had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools.
米拉卡·格罗斯对澳大利亚的高智商儿童进行研究，发现他们对家庭表现出的积极情绪要比他们对学校表现出的积极情绪多得多。
Usually, it is possible to conclude that the inclusions are older than their diamond hosts, but with little indication of the time interval involved.
通常情况下，有可能得出包裹体比其金刚石寄主更古老的结论，但几乎没有说明所涉及的时间间隔。
Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.
这些孩子经常认为他们知道的比老师多，他们的老师经常觉得这些孩子傲慢，漫不经心，或没有动力。
Livestock could be driven across the mountains, but the cost of transporting bulky grains in this fashion was several times greater than their value in eastern markets.
牲畜可以被赶过山区，但以这种方式运输大量谷物的成本要比它们在东部市场的价值高出好几倍。
Improvements in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century, for example, gave today's elderly people a better start in life than their predecessors.
例如，二十世纪开始的二十多年中儿童营养状况改善，使今天的老年人比他们的先辈有了更好的人生起点。
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。
Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gizmos and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies' systems.
现在，许多人的家庭中的设备比他们的办公室的设备更强大、更灵活；针对消费者的小发明和在线服务比大多数公司的系统更智能、更容易使用。
When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers.
当在任何领域极具天赋的学生谈论什么对他们能力的发展是重要的，他们更可能提到他们的家庭，而不是他们的学校或老师。
Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment than their parents, UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don't continue.
尽管墨西哥移民的孩子在教育和职业成就方面比他们的父母做得更好，加州大学洛杉矶分校的社会学家爱德华·特勒斯发现这种增长不会持续下去。
They realized that some of their prices were higher than their competitors' and revised prices accordingly.
他们意识到他们的部分价格比竞争对手的高，就相应地调整了价格。
Most children are born smarter than their parents.
大多数孩子生来就比他们的父母聪明。
Children tend to imitate their parents more than their teachers.
相比模仿老师，孩子更倾向于模仿父母。
However, Martian craters get filled in considerably faster than their lunar counterparts.
然而，火星陨石坑被填满的速度比月球陨石坑快很多。
Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease.
澳大利亚运动团队赢得的奖项数量超出平均水平，对手在他们面前似乎不堪一击。
As internal messages, memorandums tend to be more informal and more direct than their letter counterparts.
作为内部信息，备忘录往往比信函更不正式、更直接。
They may also be less inclined, at least initially, to take jobs that pay far less than their old positions.
至少在开始阶段，他们可能也不太愿意接受比原来薪水低的工作。
A study showed that dual-language students did significantly better than their peers in reading English texts.
一项研究表明，双语学生在英语阅读方面明显优于同龄人。
Julie Gurner believes that homebuying decisions should be based on children's needs rather than their opinions.
朱莉·古纳认为购房决定应该基于孩子们的需求，而不是基于他们的意见。
By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers.
五年级时，早期存在注意力障碍的儿童取得的学习成绩和阅读成绩，都低于同龄儿童。
They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can be significant.
他们还需要比前任更好的公共关系技巧，因为即使是一个小小的失误也可能带来巨大的损失。
To show enthusiasm is to risk appearing unscientific, unobjective; it is to appeal to the students' emotions rather than their intellect.
表现出热情就有可能显得不科学、不客观；这是为了迎合学生的情感而不是他们的智力。
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