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adv.较少地，较小地，更少，较小；

prep.减去，少掉，不足；

n.较少，较小；

英语六级真题

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.

Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

Alternatively, you may wish to try and surprise your boss with something less common, such as this zinfandel.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

And a lot of interpreters will say one is easier than the other, less stressful.

And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.

As a result, " Black " people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

As careers and vocations become less available during times of recession, adolescents may be especially hard hit.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

But less than a month before hand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push the opening back again to 2013.

But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

But the other half of the name represents another ingredient, less infamous (名声不好的), perhaps, but also strangely potent: the kola nut.

But to build up my own finances, I need around 20% more in personal savings and 50% less debt.

But today, on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, let's take a moment to consider a less obvious advantage: the potential for smartphone technology to revolutionize behavioral science.

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.

Click-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

Consumers are less concerned about safety in high-tech products than categories like fresh and processed food.

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

For example, in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.

Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.

Hogg says that scooping is less of a problem than many think.

If you're moderately exercising for 150 minutes a week, as the Centers for disease Control and Prevention recommends, or less than that, you're probably not an extreme athlete.

It turns out that the less skilled pianist spends more time looking at her fingers than does the expert who, in contrast, is more likely to be looking at the sheet music, or looking ahead at keys he's not yet playing.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning.

Maybe students who choose less prestigious universities are bound to succeed because they are determined to.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture form

Mott survey found among the 56 percent of mothers and 34 percent of fathers who discussed parenting on social media, 72 percent of them said sharing made them feel less alone, and nearly as many said sharing helped them worry less and gave them advice fro

New electric engines coupled with artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will contribute to a more efficient, integrated transport system that is less polluting and less noisy.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

On the less cute and more scary side there is Actroid F, which is so human-like that some patients may not know the difference.

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.

Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.

So there could be less protein, more sugar and some additives you wouldn't expect, such as caffeine.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Some fish, too, have had limited success vacationing at the lake as less salty lagoons form on the outer edges from hot springs flowing into Lake Natron.

Still, Liu isn't ready to endorse the habit of sleeping less and making up for it later.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Taking photos actually makes people enjoy what they're doing more, not less.

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

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

The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.

The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable

The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

The researchers found that extended screen time makes young people less happy.

The second less obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow.

The sun was considerably less bright back then, so Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than earth.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The Washington Post reported on a recent study by Princeton economists, in which college graduates who applied to the most selective schools in the 12th grade were compared to those who applied to slightly less selective schools.

There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

They might be more willing to offer career help, because your less famous school denotes that, like them, you are also full of energy and perseverance.

They slept six hours a night or less.

This idea is based on the principle that lions and other predators are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched.

This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog

This system couldn't care less how often you use it.

Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.

TV might make you less happy, but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young people's average happiness.

We also do less tangible things like understanding what our readers want.

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

When people imagine themselves as advisers and imagine their own choices as belonging to someone else, they feel less tired and rely less on decision shortcuts to make those choices.

You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

DET

（数量）较小（或少）的；更小（或少）的（前面可用a little，a lot，a bit，far和much等修饰）

You use less to indicate that there is a smaller amount of something than before or than average. You can use 'a little', 'a lot', 'a bit', 'far', and 'much' in front of less.

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PREP-PHRASE

（用在数字或数量前）少于，低于，比…少

You use less than before a number or amount to say that the actual number or amount is smaller than this.

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ADV-COMPAR

（某一特性的程度与以往或一般情况相比）较轻地，较差地

You use less to indicate that something or someone has a smaller amount of a quality than they used to or than is average or usual.

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ADV-COMPAR

不像…（更像…）；与其说…（倒不如说…）

If you say that something is less one thing than another, you mean that it is like the second thing rather than the first.

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ADV-COMPAR

（做得）较少，更少

If you do something less than before or less than someone else, you do it to a smaller extent or not as often.

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PHR-CONJ-COORD

（用于否定句后）遑论，更何况，更不用说

You use the expressions still less ,much less, and even less after a negative statement in order to introduce and emphasize a further statement, and to make it negative too.

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PREP

（用在数字或数量前）扣除，减去

When you are referring to amounts, you use less in front of a number or quantity to indicate that it is to be subtracted from another number or quantity already mentioned.

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PHRASE

逐渐减少；越来越小

You use less and less to say that something is becoming smaller all the time in degree or amount.

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PHRASE

毫不；完全不；一点都不

You use less than to say that something does not have a particular quality. For example, if you describe something as less than perfect, you mean that it is not perfect at all.

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PHRASE

（对某事物或某人的重要性表示惊讶或钦佩）竟然，居然

You can use no less as a way of expressing surprise or admiration at the importance of something or someone.

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PHRASE

（对某一数目之大表示惊奇）多达

You use no less than before an amount to indicate that the amount is larger than you expected.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

较少的, 更少的 （与不可数名词连用）

(级别、地位、尊严等)较低的，较劣的；较次要的

adv.

较少, 较小,更少地, 少,没那么多

[常用在much 或 less后面]更不，非常肯定地不

prep.

减去，扣除

pron.

（与不可数名词连用）较少的，更少的

n.

较少；更少；更小

次要的东西(或事情)

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree;

2. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality;

3. (usually preceded by `no') lower in esteem;

4. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer;

Adverb

1. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs;

2. comparative of little;