While you may not share my love for the semi-dead, you might agree with this: most of us are surrounded by these mute, will-less, dumb, sometimes evil and dangerous brutes everyday.
尽管你也许并不像我这样喜欢半死不活的东西，但你或许会同意这一点：我们中绝大多数人每天都被这些缄默不语、缺乏主见、蠢不拉几，有时候甚至邪恶危险、残酷无情的活物围绕着。
Haven't farsighted economists been telling us that in the future we will work less, not more?
有远见的经济学家们不是一直在告诉我们，将来我们会工作得更少而不是更多吗？
The thicker the material, the less susceptible the garment will be to wet conditions.
布料越厚，衣服通常就越不容易浸湿。
Analysts predict that Digital will price the new line at less than half the cost of comparable IBM mainframes.
分析家们预测迪吉多公司会将其新线产品的价格定在低于可比的IBM公司大型主机成本的一半的水平。
Nuclear weapons will play a less prominent part in NATO's armoury in the future.
核武器将来在北约的军械中会起较次要的作用。
However, genetic learning depends upon a prediction that the future will more or less resemble the past.
然而，基因学习基于一种预测，即未来或多或少会与过去相似。
"Press your feet on the ground more and I am sure it will hurt you less," suggested Heidi.
“多用力把脚踩在地上，我相信你就不会那么疼了。”海蒂建议道。
Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.
几乎一半的毕业生后续挣的钱依然很少，他们会有一部分债务被免除。
Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to less experienced private sector boards.
要求公司将性别作为董事会成员资格的首要条件，将不可避免地导致私营部门董事会经验不足。
Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.
如果雇主将他们的注意力从人们在哪上大学转移开来，那么在大学学习只会变得不那么有吸引力，目前没有迹象表明这种情况很快就会发生。
Making the switch to corn ethanol will help the American economy because it will make the United States less dependent on foreign oil.
转向玉米乙醇将有助于美国经济，因为它将使美国减少对外国石油的依赖。
"Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay," said she; and then she grew less sad.
“也许这条河可以把我送到小加伊那儿去，”她说；然后她变得不那么伤心了。
While extroverts will feel less fear before the ordeal, it does not mean they will necessarily do it better.
虽然外向的人在考验前会更少地感到恐惧，但这并不意味着他们一定会做得更好。
As games blend our real and virtual environments, should there be a concern that some people will be less able to distinguish between the two?
游戏将真实的和虚拟的环境相混合，那么我们是否应该担心有些人会不那么容易区别这二者？
Kurzweil and his associates are preparing a smaller but improved version that will sell for less than half that price.
库兹韦尔和他的同事们正在准备一个更小但经过改进的版本，售价还不到这个价格的一半。
If you own a rare coin that few people are interested in, it will be worth less than a rare coin that many people want to own.
如果你拥有一枚很少有人感兴趣的稀有硬币，它的价值将低于许多人想要拥有的稀有硬币。
The warming will be more dramatic in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off.
气候变暖在一些地区会更加剧烈，在另一些地区则会有所减弱，而有些地方甚至会变冷。
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。
If you have got 10 points or above, but still less than 15 points, you will receive a warning letter from the Transport Department.
如果你持有10分或10分以上，但仍低于15分，那么就会收到来自交通部门的警告信。
The techniques you use are different, and a lot of interpreters will say one is easier than the other, less stressful.
二者所用的方法是不同的，很多译员认为一种比另一种更简单，压力更小。
The future of Wenzhou will now lie in providing services to these less developed areas, argues one button and zipper factory owner.
温州的未来在于为这些欠发达地区提供服务，一名纽扣和拉链工厂主这样说。
At the moment, we don't have exact numbers of guests and though we usually only cater for groups of less than fifty, we will have quite a few more than that.
目前我们没有确切的客人人数。虽然我们通常只接待50人以下的团体，但我们这次将迎来更多的客人。
As the earth's climate changes and rainfall becomes even less predictable in some places, those answers will grow even more valuable.
地球气候发生变化，部分地区的降雨变得更加难以预测，所以这些答案将变得更有价值。
The filter expression will result in a sequence of integers where each is less than 1,000 and divisible by 3 or 5.
该筛选表达式将产生一个整数序列，其中每个整数都小于1000且能被3或5整除。
Patients often need someone to listen to—and care about—their journey story, which will never be realized through a human-less technology.
患者经常需要有人倾听和关心他们的旅程故事，这是永远不能通过无人技术实现的。
We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
我们确信，如果开车的人少一些，空气污染就会少一些。
Reinfection will probably be less common in cases where the new antibiotic is prescribed than in cases where either penicillin or erythromycin is prescribed.
在使用新抗生素的情况下，再感染可能比使用青霉素或红霉素的情况更少见。
I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.
我用另一个合理的论点进行反驳：提高最低工资将迫使企业在更短的时间内雇佣更少的人。
It's hard to predict when driver-less cars will be everywhere on our roads.
很难预测无人驾驶汽车什么时候会遍地出现。
It's hard to predict when driver-less cars will be everywhere on our roads.
很难预测无人驾驶汽车什么时候会遍地出现。
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