Less than

1·In the UK, research is concentrated: less than 25% of universities receive 75% of the research funding.

在英国，研究是集中的：不到25%的大学获得了75%的研究经费。

2·He lost by less than 100 votes.

他以相差不到100张选票败北。

—— 《牛津词典》

3·He lost by less than one second.

他以不到一秒钟的差距输了比赛。

—— 《牛津词典》

4·The repaired sail lasted less than 24 hours.

修好的帆只维持了不到二十四小时。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The marriage had lasted for less than two years.

这桩婚姻持续了不到两年。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

1·The happiest teens used digital media a little less than an hour per day.

最快乐的青少年每天使用数字媒体的时间略少于一小时。

2·People definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

人们当然更喜欢在员工人数少于100的小型组织或公司工作。

3·If calories taken in are less than calories expended, weight shall be lost, and so it is with money.

如果摄入的卡路里少于消耗的卡路里，体重就会减轻，金钱也是如此。

4·In order to spin off the Moon, Earth would have had to rotate so fast that a day would have lasted less than three hours.

为了脱离月球，地球必须旋转得如此之快，以至于一天持续的时间少于三个小时。

5·These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night.

这些结果表明，如果一个企业想要成功，它应该只雇佣每晚睡眠时间少于6小时的人。

1·Is it zero, less than zero or more than zero?

是零，小于零，还是大于零呢？

2·On Mars, there are relatively few craters less than 5 kilometers in diameter.

在火星上，直径小于5公里的陨石坑相对较少。

3·The drawing illustrates how liver tumors less than 2 cm can be treated with one ablation.

图中显示了小于2厘米的肝脏肿瘤如何通过一次消融治疗。

4·The filter expression will result in a sequence of integers where each is less than 1,000 and divisible by 3 or 5.

该筛选表达式将产生一个整数序列，其中每个整数都小于1000且能被3或5整除。

5·Data has since revealed that all mass strandings around Australia occur on gently sloping sandy beaches, some with inclines of less than 0.5%.

此后的数据显示，澳大利亚周围所有的大规模搁浅都发生在平缓倾斜的沙质海滩上，有些海滩的倾斜度小于0.5%。

1·Actually, some subtile emotion would exist between persons of the same gender, which is more intimate than friendship, but less than love.

实际上，同性之间，可能存在一种所谓“友达以上，恋人未满”的微妙情感。

2·The enterprises with new export business refer to the enterprises whose export business is less than 12 months since the date of the first export business.

新发生出口业务的企业是指自发生首笔出口业务之日起未满12个月的企业。

3·Less than six months unemployed, to collect clothing costs, 70%;

未满半年离职者，收取服装70%费用；

4·Suspension of driving license for less than two years;

吊销机动车驾驶证未满二年的；

1·She got much less than she would have done if she had settled out of court.

她得到的远不如她若庭外和解得到的多。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·People who are continually distracted by emails, alerts and other messages understand less than those who are able to concentrate.

总是被邮件、警告和其他信息提醒的情况下理解得不如那些能够专心致志的人。

3·I thought of all the things I might have said and done, which I hadn't said or done, in the bitter, humiliating moments when just to ask for a crust of bread is to make yourself less than a worm.

我想到在那些痛苦、耻辱的时刻我本该说、本该做而又没有说、没有做的一切，那时为了向别人讨一口面包就要叫自己变得不如一条虫子。

4·That would mean an annual loss of 3, 250 sq km a year, a good chunk of rainforest but less than the area of discarded pasture that returns to forest each year.

这就意味着每年森林消失面积为3,250平方公里，对雨林来说的确不小，但还不如每年回归森林的废弃牧场面积大。

5·Since much of any tax cut will be saved, the stimulus effect of tax cuts is almost always less than the effect of direct spending.

由于每次少收的税很多都被存起来了，减税的刺激效果几乎总是不如直接支出的效果。