Progress was slower than expected.

进展比预计的缓慢。

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They arrived home sooner than expected.

他们很快就到家了，比预料的要早。

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He conducted himself far better than expected.

他表现得比预料的要好得多。

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And in other economic news, a report by the Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index shrank by less than expected.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

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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2% You could say, I think my portfolio has an expected return of 12%-- that would be better than if it had an expected return of 10%.

如果一个投资组合的预期收益率有-,那就比一个只有10%的投资组合要好。

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The broad message is the same, even if it is a slightly larger contraction than expected.

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Genta argues that patients given only chemotherapy, but not Genasense, lived longer than expected.

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"The camera has performed better than expected and has opened up the whole of the area, " he said.

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