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·We are eating more and exercising less.
我们吃得更多，锻炼得却更少。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Her calls became less frequent.
她打电话的次数减少了。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·He lost by less than 100 votes.
他以相差不到100张选票败北。
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5·I eat lots less than I used to.
我比以前吃得少多了。
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6·We have less to worry about now.
现在我们要担忧的事少一些了。
—— 《牛津词典》
7·The book is less than inspiring.
那本书不大吸引人。
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8·He lost by less than one second.
他以不到一秒钟的差距输了比赛。
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9·You pay less for the store brand.
商店品牌的东西要便宜些。
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10·It's less than a mile to the beach.
离海滩不足一英里远。
—— 《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·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·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·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·I usually buy sliced bread – it's less bother.
我通常买切片面包–这样可以少些麻烦。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·If only there were less holes!
要是窟窿少些该多好啊！
3·Children can pay less attention to games.
孩子们可以对游戏少些关注。
4·I come now to other motives which, though in a sense less fundamental than those we have been considering, are still of considerable importance.
现在提一些其他的动机，虽然和我们之前考虑过的那些动机相比他们在某种程度上少些重要性，但依然是相当的重要。
5·There is some truth to these allegations, but less than the slogans allege.
这些话语有那么一部分真实成份，但是比某些标语口号宣扬的要少些。
1·Should we have expected anything more, or less?
我们应该期望多点还是少点呢？
2·So it helps you eat less and keep to a diet.
因此，它可以帮助你吃得少点，并保持饮食习惯。
3·Complain less about what you are given.
孟光说：“对于你所得到的少点抱怨。”
4·But when we again hear the simple message that there is more joy in pursuing less than can be found in pursuing more, it rings true in our hearts... because deep down, we already know it to be true.
然而，当我们再次听到一个简单的信条，就是说，少点追求比多点追求更快乐。我们心里也认为的确如此，因为在我们心底，已经知道这就是事实。
5·Complain less, smile more.
少点抱怨，多点笑容。
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。