Although the climate remained as unpredictable as ever between one year and the next, it became much less locally diverse.

尽管在这一年到下一年之间，气候仍然像以往一样难以预测，但当地的多样性已经大大减少。

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A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

去年发表在《美国临床营养学期刊》上的一项研究发现，睡眠多的人比他们睡眠较少的同龄人更少吃不健康的食品。

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As is often the case with human beings, many animals sleep a lot when young, but sleep much less when they get older.

和人类一样，许多动物年幼时睡得多，但长大后睡少了很多。

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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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You could use the "I want to" pattern to express something much less practical as well.

你也可以用“I want to”句型来表达不太现实的事情。

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Female workers doing the same jobs as men earned much less money.

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Denis Thompson, of Thompson Monuments Inc. in Webster City, Iowa, recommends zinc, which is lighter and less expensive than bronze, and is worth much less as scrap.

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By doing so it makes the iPad potentially much less flexible as a workplace device.

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Gas is plentiful but hard to move--hence, in most cases, much less valuable as it comes out of the ground.

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