less

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• adv.少；較少；更少；較小
• n.較少
• prep.減去；扣除
• adj.較小的；較次的；身分較低的

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例句

The technology has been used to power wireless lamps, speakers and electronic photo frames that require less than 10 watts to function.

該技術(shù)已經(jīng)應(yīng)用于像無線燈具，揚聲器和電子相框這類能耗低于10瓦的產(chǎn)品。

As the euro's troubles go on, however, the signs are that the German electorate is becoming steadily less eager to go along with it.

然而，隨著歐元問題的持續(xù)，德國選區(qū)的信號變得不再堅定擁護這一系統(tǒng)。

When President Obama came into office, he committed to providing the best value for the American people while spending less money.

奧巴馬總統(tǒng)上臺后，致力于為美國人民提供最好的服務(wù)，同時花較少的錢。

But Saudi Arabia, Coll shows, is a place where the interests of rulers and revolutionaries are less easy to distinguish.

但是，科爾表示，在沙特阿拉伯，統(tǒng)治者與革命者間的利益劃分很難做到涇渭分明。

What was less good was that some readers did not understand quite what sort of problem I was after.

不太好的是一些讀者沒搞清楚我要的是什么樣的問題。

The condition of the large intestine was similar to that of the small intestine, but the injury was less severe.

大腸與小腸在損傷和修復(fù)的變化過程方面基本相同，但其程度明顯低于小腸；

Developers seem to be open and less interested in information, they seem very "enjoy" their " muddle-headed " home state.

發(fā)展商似乎對信息公開并不太感興趣，他們似乎也很“享受”買樓者“蒙查查”的買樓狀態(tài)。

And with more boots on the ground, he would have been less reliant on air power, with its inevitable risk of big civilian casualties.

有了更多地面部隊，他就能少依靠空中力量了，也就減少了導(dǎo)致平民大量死傷這樣不可避免的風(fēng)險。

On this call would be a condition that was the converse of the if; in this case, that the deposit must amount to less than or equal to zero.

在這個調(diào)用上會有一個與if相反的條件；在本例中，即存款必須小于等于0。

The crisis has toppled seven euro-zone governments in less than a year, including those in Spain, Italy and Portugal.

受危機影響，在不到一年的時間里，7個歐元區(qū)國家的政府下臺，其中包括西班牙、意大利和葡萄牙。

These people care about how much interests they can draw from the audience that they care less the journalism ideals.

這些人只關(guān)心能從觀眾那里吸引多少眼球，而不怎么關(guān)心新聞精神。

Although normally a result of their's why they not always greeting, but worried about the heart has never been less blessed.

雖因自己平日里的瑣事纏身而不常問候，但牽掛祝福的心從未曾減少。

The German survey found that the more educated a woman was, the less likely it was that she would be satisfied by sex.

德國的一項調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，越是受教育程度高的女性，越是難在性生活中獲得滿意。

Using GSM in the U. S. is often less expensive than calling cards , pay phones and hotel phones .

在美國使用GSM，通常比使用電話卡、公共電話和酒店電話更為便宜。

One person familiar with the matter said the new device will likely sell for less than $400.

一位知情者表示，新電腦的售價可能低于400美元。

Although this might seem to make such bonds less attractive to investors, in practice it seems to have done the opposite.

盡管這可能會使這些抵押債券對投資者來說不那么具有吸引力，但是實際上正好相反。

not drink much less of a hero is heroic, and the wine can only be regarded as a hero out of aperitif, appetizer, wine, liquor beauty.

不喝酒的英雄則少了許多豪氣，而酒離開了英雄只能當作餐前酒、開胃酒、養(yǎng)顏酒。

There was a strong preference for packages that were easy to carry and open, convenient for storage and generated less waste for disposal.

有強烈偏好的包，易于攜帶和開放，存儲方便，減少產(chǎn)生廢物的處置。

France also hopes to commission a repository by then but seems to have made less progress at the administrative level.

法國也希望到時能準備好倉庫，但在行政層面上似乎進展不大。

'Oh yes. But I think I was a very lonely person growing up, so I'm probably less lonely now than I was. '

哦，是的，但是我從小就是一人孤單長大，所以我現(xiàn)在沒覺得有多孤單。

That's one of the less attractive aspects of her personality.

那是她個性中不太討人喜歡的一面。

This community is always more or less outside of, and alien to, us.

這個社區(qū)對我們多少總是“異己”的。

They are also seeking ways to build stronger fuel tanks or to make the fuel less explosive.

他們還正在設(shè)法制造更加堅固的油箱或使燃油不易爆炸。

The sky too has its changes, but they are less marked than those of the vegetation and the river.

頭上的天空也是變幻的，只是不象樹木和河流的變化那樣被人注意罷了。

The value of the British pound is less than it was 100 years ago.

現(xiàn)在英鎊的價值比一百年前的低。

In more northern plantations the total range of variation is less.

在北部的試驗栽植點則總的變異幅度較小。

The wedding preparations take weeks but the actual ceremony takes less than an hour.

準備婚禮要幾周，而婚禮儀式本身還不到一小時。

The practice is much less successful for bacterial infections and is more likely to perpetuate diseases.

這一實踐對細菌性感染的效果要小的多，并且更容易傳播疾病。

The less the wavelength, the smaller can be the region of confinement of the wave.

波長越短，波的局限區(qū)域就越短。

In general, the annual rainfall in these regions is less than the annual water loss by evaporation.

總的來說，這些地區(qū)的年降雨量比一年內(nèi)由于蒸騰而失去的水分要少。

I learned from the doctors that he would survive; but they said he would come out less an arm and a leg.

我從醫(yī)生處打聽到，他可能還活得了；但他們說他出院時要少掉一只手臂和一條腿。

It's less easy to explain why her weeping loosed such a terrible emotion in me.

她的哭泣為什么惹起我大發(fā)脾氣，這就不太容易解釋了。

She looked less specifically like a woman than a more generalized human being and a sad one.

她看上去不象一個標準女人，而是一個特征不明顯的人，一個窮愁潦倒的人。

Our surveys continued to show that Chrysler owners were more likely to be blue-collar, older, less educated.

我們的調(diào)查材料繼續(xù)表明，克萊斯勒的買主更多地是藍領(lǐng)工人，年紀較大，文化較低。

I'm sure he will be hunted down in less than a week.

我敢保證他一定會在一個星期內(nèi)被捉拿歸案。

He was not very solid to others but there was a hope of his becoming less trifling.

他為人不很嚴肅，但他有可能變得不那么輕浮。

It was less than two years after the principle of solid circulation was confirmed in the large-scale pilot plant.

這距固體循環(huán)的原理在大型試驗裝置中得到確認不到兩年。

"I know that, " she said with less heat, but watching him still with eyes from which the old, impatient mockery was not entirely gone.

“我知道，”她說，現(xiàn)在語氣已不再那么激動，但是在她盯著他的眼神里，往日的那種按捺不住的嘲弄并沒完全消失。

It was a glorious June afternoon, and never did that solitary sheet of water seem less than an area of strife and bloodshed.

這是一個晴朗的六月下午，湖上一片寂靜，簡直不象會發(fā)生流血和戰(zhàn)斗的地方。

The magnitude of the hazard from fallout will then be far less than if the explosion were a surface burst.

這時沉降的危險性就比表面爆炸條件下小得多。

As time passed, these painful seizures grew gradually less frequent, and his friends strove to divert his mind into fresh channels.

隨著時間的推移，這類惡作劇漸漸少了，朋友們力圖把他引到別的路子上去。

In most crystal systems and in laminated materials the number of components of the thermal conductivity is less than six.

在大多數(shù)晶系和層狀物質(zhì)中，熱導(dǎo)率的分量數(shù)小于6。

This method is used for infants less than one year of age when ultrasound equipment is not available.

在沒有超聲波儀器時，用本法測量未滿周歲嬰兒的血壓。

Within less than a decade, however, the progressive ferment had brought mighty changes in the American political scene.

盡管如此，在不到十年的時間里，進步的巨浪卻在美國的政治舞臺上造成巨大的變化。

He looks well scrubbed and less bloated than usual, and made no reference to the events of two nights before.

他看上去經(jīng)過了很好的“凈化”處理，不象平時那樣趾高氣揚，也沒有提到前兩天晚上的事情。

Mr. Oakhurst seldom troubled himself with sentiment, still less propriety; but he had a vague idea that the situation was not fortunate.

奧克赫斯特先生難得感情用事，尤其不重視禮節(jié)；不過他模糊地感到，當時的情況也是不幸的。

Such considerations as these incline me to lay less weight on the direct action of the surrounding conditions.

這些事實使我覺得周圍條件的直接作用不甚重要。

Nim thought, as it always does at dawn, a daily illusion lasting less than half an hour.

尼姆想，每天黎明都一樣，這每天一次的幻象持續(xù)不到半小時。

It will be prudent for you to deal less in mirth and more in friendship on this occasion.

在這種場合你還有興趣開玩笑，應(yīng)該友好一點才是。

The actual rate of decay may be somewhat greater or less than this expected rate.

衰變的實際速率可以比這個預(yù)期速率稍大些或稍小些。

It is, however, arguable that this burden is less than the performance gained by transferring about half as much data across the wire.

然而，這個負擔是否比因通過數(shù)據(jù)線傳送一半左右的數(shù)據(jù)而獲得的性能小，還存在爭議。

Most of its policyholders did not do badly, but they did less well than they had been led to expect.

它的大多數(shù)投保人做得并不壞，但沒有他們被引導(dǎo)的預(yù)期那么好。

Why, then, should man hasten as if anything less than eternity were allotted for the least deed.

那么，為什么要加快，猶如人以外的任何永恒的少而被分配最不行為。

America's new dollar policy may be less absurd than its old one, but it is still a bit of a muddle.

新的美元政策也許會比舊的政策更為合理，但也同樣有點令人迷惑不解。

He said he was, in fact, eating LESS junk food since my departure.

他說，在我出發(fā)旅行之后，他反而少吃了很多垃圾食品。

Make it a goal to live more and stress less. Remember, you manage your feelings. Don't let your feelings and worry manage you!

將讓生活更豐富，壓力更少定為一個目標。記著，你管理你的情緒。不要讓你的情緒和擔憂管理你！

I cut my elastic the length of the back top edge plus half the front top, but you may want less.

我將我的回彈性的上邊緣的長度加上半前的頂部，但你可能要少。

And, to say the truth, there is no conduct less politic than to enter into any confederacy with your friend's servants against into master.

老實說，再沒有比跟你朋友的仆人勾結(jié)起來反對他們的主人更為冒失的事了。

If things do not change, the sort of independent military operation carried out by US soldiers will become less the exception than the rule.

情況如果還得不到改觀，美軍的類似單獨軍事行動將會被列入常規(guī)計劃，而非偶然為之的特殊情況。

In less than 100 characters she'd recognised what I'd set out to achieve and given my confidence a real boost.

她用不到100個特征認識到了我努力實現(xiàn)的，讓我的信息得到了一個真正的提高。

Less mysterious, he said, is the matter of fostering the kind of innovative thinking that leads to scientific breakthroughs.

他說，培養(yǎng)導(dǎo)致科學(xué)突破的創(chuàng)新思維方式的這件事情，并不神秘。

In the second level the pumpkins moved in less predictable patterns and made things a bit more challenging (but only a little bit).

第二關(guān)南瓜妖怪的移動變得不那么容易預(yù)測，這使游戲增加了一些難度（不過只增加了一點點）。

The air gap must be at least two times the diameter of the water supply inlet and no less than one inch in diameter.

在水槽的下水管和地板下水管之間。氣隙的大小應(yīng)至少為進水管直徑的兩倍，直徑不應(yīng)小于一英吋。

Because people are driving less, and cars are more efficient, the petrol tax is not the money-spinner it used to be.

因為開車的人少了，所以車流更順暢了，汽油稅不再像以前那樣是棵搖錢樹了。

The advantages included its easy to manipulate, safety, short operating time, less bleeding, quick recovery, and et al.

具有手術(shù)時間短，出血少，術(shù)后恢復(fù)好，簡單易行等優(yōu)點。

"Egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day, " he said.

埃及人民證明了一點：只有真正的民主才能取得勝利。

The British were less clear, although there was more support than opposition for a "capitalist" system.

英國人的答復(fù)相對來說不那么明確，但“資本主義”制度的支持者多于反對者。

But, he said, if his land was in a more remote part of the Amazon, with less farming potential, "I'd take that offer and run with it. "

但是，他說，如果自己的土地在亞馬遜更偏遠的地區(qū)，沒有多少耕作潛力，“我會接受那個報價，并進行動作。”

Its customers do not (yet) seem to be trading down to "value-priced" food, but then all the items on its menu cost less than $10.

它的消費者還沒有像是要去消費“物有所值”的食品，但是到時候所有這個菜單上食品條目的價格都會小于10美元。

Youth, a vibrant words, when you met her, to the so suddenly, less than a reaction to it and she said good-bye time.

青春，一個朝氣蓬勃的的字眼，當你遇見她，來的是那么的突然，不及反應(yīng)卻到了和她說再見的時候。

This means that the fall velocity of sand particles in such suspensions will be less than in clear water.

這意味著這種懸浮物中的沙粒的沉速將比其在清水中為小。

Attwood found the American position less hopeless than it seemed from Washington.

阿特伍德發(fā)現(xiàn)，美國的處境并不象在華盛頓看來的那樣無望。

If less productive opportunities are exploited by farmers before productive ones, something else is wrong.

如果農(nóng)民選取的不是效益較大的機會而是效益較小的機會，那就是其他某些地方出了問題。

Other less profitable services are to be axed later this year.

其他盈利較少的服務(wù)項目預(yù)定今年稍晚將大量削減。

He observed that the archdeacon at breakfast was less cordial than he had been on the preceding evening.

他注意到，會吏長在早餐時不象在前一天晚上那么懇切熱誠。

On a small island, the race for life will have been less severe.

小島上生活的斗爭不會很劇烈。

That way being thus cleared, and the bars of virtue and conscience thus removed, we had less difficulty afterwards to struggle with.

那條路既然這樣開拓了，道德與良心的欄柵也這樣搬開了，我們此后所要克服斗爭的困難就少多了。

He felt better after having eaten than he had felt before, less weary of his life, less vanquished in spirit.

吃飽了肚子，他覺得心情好些了，對生活不那么厭倦了，精神也不那么沮喪了。

My weight may shoot up from less than an ounce to several ounces.

我的體重可能猛增不到一盎司到幾盎司。

The vertical tail is less affected by the remainder of the airplane.

垂尾受飛機其它部分的影響較小。