When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

在20世纪50年代末汽车影院最受欢迎的时候，美国大约有4000家汽车影院，但如今，这个数字还不到当时的四分之一。

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By the 1990's, less than half of the earth's original rain forests remained, and they continued to disappear at an alarming rate every year.

到20世纪90年代，地球上原有的雨林只剩下不到一半，而且它们每年都继续以惊人的速度消失。

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As you climb the ladder of your career and success, you will hear more and more “YES”s and less and less “NO”s.

当你在职业的阶梯上爬的越来越高，你会听到越来越多的附和声，反对的声音会越来越少。

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He says Indonesia's less strict laws attract terrorists from other countries, like Malaysian Noordin Top who is the suspected mastermind of the recent Jakarta bombings.

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There's a problem with that and the problem is that countries that are less successful don't keep data--that's a problem.

但这个研究方法也有问题,在那些不太成功的国家里,数据并不充分,这是个问题

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and it's more or less that. I don't want to spoil it in case anyone goes to see it.

差不多就是那样的。万一有人要去观看这部剧呢，我可不想毁了它。

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If you bring five different people coffee on demand, that's less assisting one's supervisors and more waiting on them.

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That's less than McKinnell's annual pension.

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Dayna Even has found spending one hour a day fully focused on her 6-year-old son, Maximilian, means "he's less likely to act out, he's more likely to play independently and less likely to interrupt adults, " says the 51-year-old writer and tutor in Kailua, Hawaii.

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