Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.

Mies 的口头禅意味着少用装饰、安排得当，比用很多（装饰）效果更明显。

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The fact is that the indies are selling a lot more CDs than the major record labels.

事实是独立制作的唱片公司销售的激光唱片要比大牌公司多得多。

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His sexual orientation was a lot more gay than straight.

他的性取向更像是同性恋的而非异性恋的。

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It's much more important than friends." But even a simple text message can mean a lot.

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He dismisses his brother's entirely practical argument, because for him chastity is a lot more than a simple exercise of sexual abstinence.

他推翻了他弟弟所有实际的论点，因为对他来说,贞节不仅仅是简单的禁止性欲。

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a lot more than kind of people that are drawn towards technical, technical skills or the hard sciences.

对那些喜欢技术，机械，或者硬科学的人的吸引力就不大了。

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But you know, more than a lot of other folks in this country, we know about hard.

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But that's "more accurate than most speedometers in people's cars and more accurate than a lot of the technology we take for granted every day, " said Edis.

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The gun itself is a little more than a pretext and a lot less than a symbol: it serves mostly to get her involved in the mysterious life of her across-the-street neighbor, Skippy (James LeGros), a scruffy, shifty-eyed young man who has a big crush on her.

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