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1·I read much less now than I used to.

我现在看的书比过去少得多。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·Maybe we'll hear a little bit less noise.

也许我们听见的噪音会少一点。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·In practical terms , it means spending less.

具体点说，那意味着少花些钱。

—— 《牛津词典》

4·It has 25 calories less than ordinary ice cream.

它的热量比普通的冰淇淋少25卡路里。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The doctor told me (that) I should eat less fat.

医生嘱咐我要少吃油腻。

—— 《牛津词典》

1·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。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·Last year less of the money went into high-technology companies.

去年，投入到高科技公司的钱较少。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The world of advertising is obviously less bound by convention than the world of banking.

与银行业相比，广告业显然较少受常规的约束。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·They give people shower heads and toilets that use less water.

他们给人们较少用水的淋浴喷头和马桶。

5·A ratio of less red and to more far-red light would cause a reaction from the plant.

较少红光和较多远红光的比例会引起植物的反应。

1·He ate little, and drank less.

他吃得不多，喝得更少。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The president now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.

总统现在看起来是一个比一星期前刚就任时更多历练、更少自信的政客了。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Lean means doing more with less.

精益意味着用更少的资源做更多的事。

4·It uses less oil in cooking.

烹饪时用油更少。

5·Are artists less happy?

艺术家的快乐更少吗？

1·Less use of subway 29. Very big and crowded 30. Agree to someones opinion 31. Five years ago.

更少地使用地铁29。非常大而且拥挤30。同意某人的意见31。五年前。

1·She still has the energy and sex appeal of a woman less than half her age.

她仍然有着年纪比自己小一半还多的女人的精力和性感。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·There seems to be much less difference than in previous generations.

与前几代人相比，差异似乎小得多。

3·In addition, breathing during REM depends much more on the action of the diaphragm and much less on rib cage action.

另外，快速眼动期的呼吸活动更多地取决于横膈膜的反应活动，而胸腔的作用要小得多。

4·In addition, breathing during REM depends much more on the action of the diaphragm and much less on rib cage action.

另外，快速眼动期的呼吸活动更多地取决于横膈膜的反应活动，而胸腔的作用要小得多。

5·The virus was less deadly to the offspring of surviving rabbits, however, and it caused less and less harm over the years.

然而，这种病毒对幸存的兔子后代致命性更低，多年来造成的伤害也越来越小。

1·Those of larger member countries have also widened but by less.

那些较大的成员国的差价也有所扩大，但较小。

2·According to psychodynamic theory, the best ways to prevent harmful aggression may be to encourage less harmful aggression.

根据心理动力学理论，预防有害攻击的最好方法可能是鼓励危害较小的攻击行为。

3·Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.

许多孩子无法抵抗诱惑，将注意力从印刷文本转移到难度较小、但更生动的图画上。

4·If we acknowledge that human manipulation of the Earth has been a destructive force, we can also imagine that human endeavours can help us build a less destructive world in the centuries to come.

如果我们承认人类对地球的操纵是一种破坏，我们也可以认为，人类的努力可以帮助我们在未来几个世纪建立一个破坏性较小的世界。

5·Less salty surface waters would be less dense and therefore less likely to sink and stir up deep water.

含盐量较低的地表水密度较低，因此下沉和搅动深水的可能性较小。

1·Paradoxically, the less she ate, the fatter she got.

很矛盾的是，她吃得越少，就变得越胖。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·The higher one climbs, the less oxygen there is in the air.

爬得越高，空气中的氧气就越少。

3·When there's more solar wind activity, less carbon-14 is produced.

太阳风活动越频繁，产生的碳14就越少。

4·They found that longer residence correlated with more adoption of improved plant varieties but less adoption of chemical herbicides.

他们发现，居住的时间越长，采用的改良植物品种越多，而使用的化学除草剂越少。

5·When you do less, you take the time to do it right and to enjoy it, which results in your caring more about what you do.

你做的事情越少，你就可以用更多的时间更好的去做这些事，并且去享受它们，也因此你就会更加的关心它们。

1·Consumers are spending less and merchants are feeling the pinch.

消费者花钱少了，商家感到手头拮据。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·He was polite, less argumentative, more thoughtful, and much happier.

他变得彬彬有礼，少了些争辩，多了些体贴周到，也变得更快乐了。

3·Nineveh is like a puddle, and the water inside it is becoming less and less.

尼尼微就像是一个水坑，里面的水越来越少了。

4·Nowadays, as the pace of life accelerates, people have less and less leisure time.

如今，随着生活节奏加快，人们的闲暇时间越来越少了。

5·What's more, since there's less fat in your body (and your muscles), blood moves better so you have more energy — without eating more food.

因为身体和肌肉的脂肪少了，血液的流动更通畅，因此你会感到更有力量- - -在不吃更多食物的状况下。

1·The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

员工离职的可能性更小，因此人员流动率降低。

2·In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image.

在最后一项实验中，那些被鼓励预测“看到令人不快的图片后自己会作何感受”的参与者选择去看这种图片的可能性更小。

3·Among its findings was the fact that students who shared a main meal with their families were less likely to skip school.

研究发现，与家人共进主餐的学生逃学的可能性更小。

4·Healthy folks who take 400 international units daily for at least two years appear somewhat less likely to develop heart disease.

那些每天服用400医学国际单位（的药物），并持续了至少两年的健康人，患心脏病的可能性似乎更小。

5·Another possibility is to improve the playground environment, so that pupils are less likely to be led into bullying from boredom or frustration.

"另一种可能的方案就是改善运动场的环境，这样学生因为厌烦或者挫败感而被诱导去欺负别人的可能性就更小。