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。
But if prices fall by 10% instead, the house will soon be worth less than the loan.
但如果房价反而下跌了10%，房子的价值会很快低于贷款额。
An oversupply of working hours means they are worth less, wages and salaries get reduced.
工作时间供给过剩意味着工作时间在贬值，薪水会削减。
Americans who are trapped in houses worth less than their mortgages are suffering.
房屋价值低于贷款值的美国人同样处于痛苦中。
Mars was only valued at 10,000 pounds, while Venus is said to be worth less than a penny.
（依据他的公式，）火星的价值有1万英镑，而金星的价值不足1便士。
The median is a midpoint, with half of the households in the nation worth more and half worth less.
中位数是一个中间值，美国有一半的家庭其净资产比这个中间值多，还有一半的家庭其净资产比这个中间值少。
With their assets worth less and credit tight, people will be forced to save much more than they used to.
随着家庭的资产贬值以及信贷收缩，人们将被迫比以往存更多的钱。
With their homes worth less, more Americans may be saving their wage gains rather than heading to the mall.
随着房产越来越不值钱，更多的美国人情愿把工资存入银行而不是直接去商场购物。
First, their houses would be worth less and be harder to sell, thus cutting into their sense of security and liquidity.
首先，他们房屋的价值会下跌而更加难以出售，从而削弱他们的安全感和资金流动性。
With their jobs less secure, their houses worth less and their stock-market portfolios shrunken, Americans are saving more now.
面对工作安全感下降、住房贬值、股票投资缩水的局面，美国人开始增加储蓄了。
Arora also found that after controlling for other factors, companies that engage in more research are worth less in public markets.
阿罗拉还发现，在其他要素得到控制之后，在研究方面投入越多的企业往往股市市值越小。
To compensate for funds received in the future being worth less than money earned today the future inflows are discounted to their present day values.
为了弥补未来收到的资金少于今天赚到的钱，未来的流入被贴现到今天的价值中。
More generally, the cost of living in cities is higher than in the countryside, so the family grant (which is the same size across the country) is worth less.
通常来说，住在城市的开销要比农村高，因此补助金(全国发放数额相同)的价值就低了。
The result is useful to aid workers, but puzzling to economists: why should such a modest incentive (worth less than 50 cents) make such a big difference?
该结果对援助人员相当有益，却令经济学家感到疑惑：为什么这么一点点激励(价值不足5毛钱)会导致这么大的不同？
When it comes to the requirements for pleasing an audience, all the knowledge and instruction and apparatus in the world is worth less than one ounce of soul.
就取悦观众而言，世界上所有的知识，指挥和道具都比不上一盎司灵魂的价值。
This is because, as prices rise, money saved becomes worth less and less, so people are more likely to spend it on present consumption while the spending is good.
这是因为随着物价的上涨，储蓄变得越来越无价值，于是当消费形势尚好时，人们更倾向于现在就把钱消费掉。
Almost by definition, everyone participating in an auction wants to win, and everyone except the winner believes the prize to be worth less than it eventually goes for.
根据定义，几乎参与拍卖的每一个人都希望获胜，而除获胜者之外的每一个人都认为，拍卖品的价值低于最终的拍卖价格。
The latest research seems to imply that without the software of emotional maturity and self-knowledge, the hardware of academic training alone is worth less and less.
最新的研究似乎表明，缺乏情感成熟和自我了解这一软件，纯学术培训这一硬件越来越没有价值。
But in Washington, and under the roofs of many homes now worth less than a year ago, there appears to be a shift in the nation's often-ambivalent attitude about regulation.
但是在华盛顿，在许多如今房屋价值比一年前减少的家中，国民对于监管经常模棱两可的态度似乎正在转变。
Not only were the payments high, but after the real estate bubble burst the property was worth less than the mortgage (not an unfamiliar situation for many these days, I am sure).
不仅是因为要付的金额高，而且，在房地产泡沫破裂之后，房产已经不值当初贷款的价值了（我相信，最近对许多人来说这种情况并不陌生）。
Is it that homeowners cannot afford to pay; or is it that they are declining to do so, because their homes are now worth less than their mortgages, the phenomenon known as negative equity?
其原因是房产人付不起贷款；还是因为其房屋价值现在低于贷款金额(即我们熟知的负资产现象)，户主拒绝还贷？
But try telling that to the more than 15 million still unemployed, the small businesses and individuals who can't get loans and the people whose homes are worth less than their mortgages.
但试着告诉那超过1500万仍然失业的人，无法取得贷款的小企业和个人以及那些房屋价值低于其抵押贷款的人。
The central bank keeps track of the total value of its reserves in dollars, so a weaker euro means that euro-denominated assets are worth less in dollars, decreasing the total value of the reserves.
央行正在密切跟踪以美元计价的外汇储备价值变化，所以疲软的欧元意味着欧元计价的资产不如美元的值钱，使得总外汇储备价值缩水。
The central bank keeps track of the total value of its reserves in dollars, so a weaker euro means that euro-denominated assets are worth less in dollars, decreasing the total value of the reserves.
央行正在密切跟踪以美元计价的外汇储备价值变化，所以疲软的欧元意味着欧元计价的资产不如美元的值钱，使得总外汇储备价值缩水。
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