他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。
They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.
坦白来讲，比起后者，我更喜欢前者。
我更喜欢后者，因为我觉得它更方便，更便宜。
I prefer the latter, because I feel that it's much more convenient and cheaper.
后者是19世纪吸引移民到美国的一个重要因素。
The latter was an important factor in attracting settlers to the United States during the 19th century.
以被挽救的生命来衡量，后者几乎必定是更好的选择。
Measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better course.
假设杰瑞和珍妮特结婚了，后者是大学毕业生，还有工作。
Suppose that Jerry marries Jeannette who is a college graduate and is working.
这表明，他们在真相和谎言之间做出了选择，最终选择了后者。
This suggests that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and ultimately opting for the latter.
该项目原本设定在美国宇航局的航天飞机任务后，后者将于9月结束。
The programme was set to follow the U.S. space agency's shuttle missions, which are due to end in September.
如果是后者，就没有必要走极端，买最大剂量的大药片或最昂贵的瓶瓶罐罐。
If the latter, there's no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse pills or the most expensive bottles.
一些业内人士显然不想购买氟氯化碳替代品，因为后者的价格是氟氯化碳的5倍。
Some in the industry apparently do not want to pay for CFC substitutes, which can run five times the cost of CFC's.
后者是一位艺术和文学评论家，他最终认识到，摄影图像不仅能提供信息，还能激发灵感。
The latter, an art and literary critic, who eventually recognised that camera images could be inspired as well as informative.
Abbot H·Thayer 曾提出，这种渐变抹杀了实体性外观，后者是影子导致的。
Abbot H.Thayer has suggested that this gradation obliterates the appearance of solidity, which is due to shadow.
前者提供了更多的刺激和便利，而后者提供了一个更干净、更安静、通常也更友好的居住环境。
The former offers more excitement and convenience while the latter offers a cleaner, quieter and often friendlier place to live.
星巴克已将“西雅图最佳”牌咖啡的销售权卖给了汉堡王，后者将在今年晚些时候开售这种咖啡。
Starbucks has sold rights to its Seattle's Best coffee brand to Burger King, which will start selling it later this year.
如果前者较大，这个湖就是一个以表层水为主的湖泊；如果是后者，则是一个以渗漏为主的湖泊。
If the former are greater, the lake is a surface-water-dominated lake; if the latter, it is a seepage-dominated lake.
施普林格集团已经一纸诉状将《每日新闻》告上法庭，控告后者发起的修改路名之举过于劳民伤财。
The Springer Group has filed a lawsuit in the Daily News, accusing the latter of initiating a road name change that was too labor-intensive and costly.
不久之后，她嫁给了菲利普·格雷厄姆，后者接替了他岳父的职位，成为《华盛顿邮报》的出版人。
She married Philip Graham who took over his father-in-law's position shortly after and became publisher of The Washington Post.
医院教学的原因从防止孩子落后和保持学校的习惯到让孩子被占着，而后者往往是老师所能做的事情。
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do.
这位州长有相当多的政治才能，但作为一名发言人，他远不如他的对手娴熟，后者的演讲技巧令人惊叹。
The governor has considerable political talents, but as a speaker, he is far less adroit than his opponent, whose oratorical skills are breathtaking.
后者往往还是以“社会责任方式”为主要思路，因此似乎更倾向于风险较大、吸引力较一般投资标准低的交易。
The latter often still think mainly in terms of the "social responsibility approach" and thus seem to prefer deals that are riskier and less attractive than normal investment criteria would warrant.
该公司是广为人知的个人电脑领域的技术落后者。
The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena.
该外科小组的一名成员把此事泄露给一个同行医生，而后者转而又将此透露给了一位记者。
One of the members of the surgical team leaked the story to a fellow physician who, in turn, confided in a reporter.
如果是后者，你可能只能读一页。
她将那些孩子与富裕国家的孩子进行了比较，后者拥有的远超其所需，却把东西扔掉。
She compared them with children in richer countries who have more than they need and throw things away.
老鼠与社交机器人的关系可能更密切，因为后者做出了集体探索和玩耍等行为。
The rats may have bonded more with the social robot because it displayed behaviors like communal exploring and playing.
来自租户的现金流比来自股票的更稳定，后者的价值每天都在波动，管理层可能会突然停止发放股息。
The cashflow from tenants is more stable than that from equities, where values zigzag day by day and dividends can suddenly be suspended by the management.
他们发展成集体而且建立了若干文化中心，后者在墨西哥裔社会政治运动中作为公共关系力量发挥作用。
They developed collectives and established cultural centers that functioned as the public-relations arm of the Chicano sociopolitical movement.
例如，维纳斯捕蝇草和葡萄牙茅膏菜有共同的祖先，后者只通过茎上的“捕蝇纸”腺体被动地捕捉猎物。
Venus flytraps, for example, share an ancestor with Portuguese sundews, which only catch prey passively, via "flypaper" glands on their stems.
TAM正计划同智利私有航空公司LAN合并，后者在它的国内市场中，一直制定着效率的地区标准。
TAM is planning to merge with LAN, a privatized Chilean airline that has long set the regional standard for efficiency in its home market.
TAM正计划同智利私有航空公司LAN合并，后者在它的国内市场中，一直制定着效率的地区标准。
TAM is planning to merge with LAN, a privatized Chilean airline that has long set the regional standard for efficiency in its home market.
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