In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course.

康奈尔大学远程教学部 eCornell 的调查结果显示，不到三分之一的受访者期待网络课程的质量和传统课堂一样好。

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As every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.

正如每个警察都知道的那样，对人们行为的外部控制远不如内部约束有效，比如内疚、羞愧和尴尬。

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Boys, for example, cry only about a quarter as often as girls once they reach teenage years, and we all cry a lot less now than we did as babies .

例如，男孩一旦到了青春期，哭的次数只有女孩的四分之一，此外我们现在哭的次数比婴儿时期要少得多。

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The experts at the University of Illinois say pieces that weigh less than thirty grams may not produce as much.

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Yeats is, in fact, a far less nostalgic thinker than either Eliot or Pound, at least as I understand them.

其实叶芝不如,艾略特或庞德那么怀旧，至少我是这么理解的。

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As we expected, it's less than one, and of course if we build an engine, we want it to be as high as possible, as close to one as possible.

就像预先期待的一样，效率小于一，当然如果我们建造一台热机，我们希望效率越高越好，尽可能接近一。

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November saw less than half as many visitors as the year before, and less than a third as many as November 2000.

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The grand jury's account suggests that other abortionists treated him less as an outlaw than as a niche player in the abortion market.

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Many voters see them less as a solution than as part of Japan's problem, and their standing in opinion polls is even worse than that of the LDP.

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