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• adv.少；较少；更少；较小
• n.较少
• prep.减去；扣除
• adj.较小的；较次的；身分较低的

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

该技术已经应用于像无线灯具，扬声器和电子相框这类能耗低于10瓦的产品。

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，随着欧元问题的持续，德国选区的信号变得不再坚定拥护这一系统。

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

奥巴马总统上台后，致力于为美国人民提供最好的服务，同时花较少的钱。

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

但是，科尔表示，在沙特阿拉伯，统治者与革命者间的利益划分很难做到泾渭分明。

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

不太好的是一些读者没搞清楚我要的是什么样的问题。

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

大肠与小肠在损伤和修复的变化过程方面基本相同，但其程度明显低于小肠；

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

发展商似乎对信息公开并不太感兴趣，他们似乎也很“享受”买楼者“蒙查查”的买楼状态。

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

有了更多地面部队，他就能少依靠空中力量了，也就减少了导致平民大量死伤这样不可避免的风险。

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.

在这个调用上会有一个与if相反的条件；在本例中，即存款必须小于等于0。

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

受危机影响，在不到一年的时间里，7个欧元区国家的政府下台，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.

这些人只关心能从观众那里吸引多少眼球，而不怎么关心新闻精神。

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

虽因自己平日里的琐事缠身而不常问候，但牵挂祝福的心从未曾减少。

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

德国的一项调查发现，越是受教育程度高的女性，越是难在性生活中获得满意。

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

在美国使用GSM，通常比使用电话卡、公共电话和酒店电话更为便宜。

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

一位知情者表示，新电脑的售价可能低于400美元。

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

尽管这可能会使这些抵押债券对投资者来说不那么具有吸引力，但是实际上正好相反。

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.

不喝酒的英雄则少了许多豪气，而酒离开了英雄只能当作餐前酒、开胃酒、养颜酒。

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

有强烈偏好的包，易于携带和开放，存储方便，减少产生废物的处置。

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

法国也希望到时能准备好仓库，但在行政层面上似乎进展不大。

'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，但是我从小就是一人孤单长大，所以我现在没觉得有多孤单。

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

那是她个性中不太讨人喜欢的一面。

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

这个社区对我们多少总是“异己”的。

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

他们还正在设法制造更加坚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.

头上的天空也是变幻的，只是不象树木和河流的变化那样被人注意罢了。

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

现在英镑的价值比一百年前的低。

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

在北部的试验栽植点则总的变异幅度较小。

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

准备婚礼要几周，而婚礼仪式本身还不到一小时。

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

这一实践对细菌性感染的效果要小的多，并且更容易传播疾病。

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

波长越短，波的局限区域就越短。

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

总的来说，这些地区的年降雨量比一年内由于蒸腾而失去的水分要少。

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

我从医生处打听到，他可能还活得了；但他们说他出院时要少掉一只手臂和一条腿。

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

她的哭泣为什么惹起我大发脾气，这就不太容易解释了。

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

她看上去不象一个标准女人，而是一个特征不明显的人，一个穷愁潦倒的人。

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

我们的调查材料继续表明，克莱斯勒的买主更多地是蓝领工人，年纪较大，文化较低。

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

我敢保证他一定会在一个星期内被捉拿归案。

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

他为人不很严肃，但他有可能变得不那么轻浮。

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

这距固体循环的原理在大型试验装置中得到确认不到两年。

"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，”她说，现在语气已不再那么激动，但是在她盯着他的眼神里，往日的那种按捺不住的嘲弄并没完全消失。

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

这是一个晴朗的六月下午，湖上一片寂静，简直不象会发生流血和战斗的地方。

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

这时沉降的危险性就比表面爆炸条件下小得多。

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

随着时间的推移，这类恶作剧渐渐少了，朋友们力图把他引到别的路子上去。

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

在大多数晶系和层状物质中，热导率的分量数小于6。

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

在没有超声波仪器时，用本法测量未满周岁婴儿的血压。

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

尽管如此，在不到十年的时间里，进步的巨浪却在美国的政治舞台上造成巨大的变化。

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

他看上去经过了很好的“净化”处理，不象平时那样趾高气扬，也没有提到前两天晚上的事情。

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

奥克赫斯特先生难得感情用事，尤其不重视礼节；不过他模糊地感到，当时的情况也是不幸的。

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

这些事实使我觉得周围条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，每天黎明都一样，这每天一次的幻象持续不到半小时。

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

在这种场合你还有兴趣开玩笑，应该友好一点才是。

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

衰变的实际速率可以比这个预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，这个负担是否比因通过数据线传送一半左右的数据而获得的性能小，还存在争议。

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

它的大多数投保人做得并不坏，但没有他们被引导的预期那么好。

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

那么，为什么要加快，犹如人以外的任何永恒的少而被分配最不行为。

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

新的美元政策也许会比旧的政策更为合理，但也同样有点令人迷惑不解。

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

他说，在我出发旅行之后，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!

将让生活更丰富，压力更少定为一个目标。记着，你管理你的情绪。不要让你的情绪和担忧管理你！

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

我将我的回弹性的上边缘的长度加上半前的顶部，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.

老实说，再没有比跟你朋友的仆人勾结起来反对他们的主人更为冒失的事了。

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

情况如果还得不到改观，美军的类似单独军事行动将会被列入常规计划，而非偶然为之的特殊情况。

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个特征认识到了我努力实现的，让我的信息得到了一个真正的提高。

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

他说，培养导致科学突破的创新思维方式的这件事情，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).

第二关南瓜妖怪的移动变得不那么容易预测，这使游戏增加了一些难度（不过只增加了一点点）。

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间。气隙的大小应至少为进水管直径的两倍，直径不应小于一英吋。

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

因为开车的人少了，所以车流更顺畅了，汽油税不再像以前那样是棵摇钱树了。

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

具有手术时间短，出血少，术后恢复好，简单易行等优点。

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

埃及人民证明了一点：只有真正的民主才能取得胜利。

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

英国人的答复相对来说不那么明确，但“资本主义”制度的支持者多于反对者。

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，他说，如果自己的土地在亚马逊更偏远的地区，没有多少耕作潜力，“我会接受那个报价，并进行动作。”

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.

它的消费者还没有像是要去消费“物有所值”的食品，但是到时候所有这个菜单上食品条目的价格都会小于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，一个朝气蓬勃的的字眼，当你遇见她，来的是那么的突然，不及反应却到了和她说再见的时候。

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

这意味着这种悬浮物中的沙粒的沉速将比其在清水中为小。

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

阿特伍德发现，美国的处境并不象在华盛顿看来的那样无望。

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

如果农民选取的不是效益较大的机会而是效益较小的机会，那就是其他某些地方出了问题。

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

其他盈利较少的服务项目预定今年稍晚将大量削减。

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

他注意到，会吏长在早餐时不象在前一天晚上那么恳切热诚。

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

小岛上生活的斗争不会很剧烈。

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

那条路既然这样开拓了，道德与良心的栏栅也这样搬开了，我们此后所要克服斗争的困难就少多了。

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

吃饱了肚子，他觉得心情好些了，对生活不那么厌倦了，精神也不那么沮丧了。

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

我的体重可能猛增不到一盎司到几盎司。

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

垂尾受飞机其它部分的影响较小。