The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom which is a little less than two meters.
VOA: special.2009.05.24
That Joseph, a Semitic foreigner, could be elevated to an important post, the post of governor, is a little less surprising, if we suppose there was a Semitic regime.
约瑟夫,外来闪族,可能被提拨到高位,统治者的位置,这也就不那么令人惊奇了,如果我们假设当时有一个闪族王国。
Santa Monica is maybe a little less populated than LA
圣莫尼卡的人口可能比洛杉矶少一些,
The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom -- which is a little less than two meters.
VOA: special.2011.03.06
For most of you on your homework assignments, I'm hoping it's a little less than that, but not much less than that.
你们一起做作业的时候,我希望作业不会消耗你们那么多时间,比20小时少点就行了呗
But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him.
VOA: special.2011.03.26
And, he worked for a little less than 10 years at McGill where he did more work on these particles that radiate from radioactive elements.
他在McGill工作了将近10年,在McGill期间做了更多的,关于放射性元素的放射性的工作。
He sold the milk for thirty dollars for a little less than four liters.
VOA: special.2009.02.11
That's a little less popular now, but.
不过,现在,投资银行不那么热门了。
This may be a little less purist than the normal view, but I think that it is more realistic."
VOA: standard.2009.11.17
The "is it okay" question pattern is something that you can use to make your speech a little less formal.
is it okay”问句能够让你说的话不过于正式。
"Is it calmer now? Are people a little less active than they were a few months ago or about a year ago?
VOA: standard.2010.06.15
Does it make sense to think we could do this in less than linear time? You know, it takes a little bit of thinking. What would it mean do I see a hand way at the back, yes please? Thank you.
你要稍微想一想,这意味着什么?,那儿是有人举手么?后面的,请你来回答吧,谢谢你,小伙子,你让我体会到我上课的价值。
"It's a little less than the administration and perhaps Speaker have said.
VOA: standard.2009.03.10
Well, they still do massively, although a little bit less than they used to.
虽然相对以前有所减少,但他们仍旧大规模的按照既往行事
"It certainly seems, that the administration is trying to address issues of human rights a little less, to work more on economic issues, and other global issues such as climate change,".
VOA: standard.2009.11.10
So it's these little differences that you'll very quickly acclimate to but it's these stupid little syntactic details that trips off, especially those less comfortable early on because if you leave out a single character, namely that semicolon on the right hand side, nothing will work.
你会很快适应这些,微小的区别,但我们正是要把这些罗里吧嗦的语法细节,尤其是那些让人非常头大的句子啃下来才行,因为如果我们一旦遗漏掉某个符号,譬如一个分号,从另一方面看来,很有可能什么都工作不了。
There are all sorts of security problems. And then there are problems that we in the West would perhaps regard as a little less legitimate, like the simple desire of authoritarian governments to keep tabs on what their people are thinking and doing.
VOA: standard.2010.08.11
When you start laughing at somebody you think of them as less of a person and we'll get to that a little bit more when we talk about laughter.
当你嘲笑别人时,他们在你眼中的人性就会减少,我们以后再深入探讨幽默,等我们讲到笑的时候。
Ms.Gardiner said the delay between the arrival of the smell at each nostril could be as little as a half second or less.
VOA: special.2010.08.03
On the y axis here it's the percent of people with these two conditions who have cardiovascular disease--or stroke rather 5%--less than 5% and a little over 5% with the stroke as the outcome.
轴表示患有心血管疾病的人同时患有,或不患有代谢综合征的百分比,就中风来说,分别是小于5%和略大于5%
"My wife is a little bit less of a social media user than I am.
VOA: special.2009.09.14
I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.
我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的
There's a little bit less guesswork for me at this point.
VOA: special.2011.08.02
It's only a slight variation that makes it a little bit more polite. A little bit less approaching.
这样轻微的变形可以使你的问题变得更为礼貌,也更为委婉。
"All our brains shrink a little as we grow older, but in some people it shrinks more and some it shrinks less,"
VOA: standard.2009.12.30
It's a little bit less clean than, I guess, the rest of the city.
我想,它不如这座城市的其他地方干净。
"The one-time cost of our system which consists of a small solar panel, a little motorcycle-sized battery and a couple of LED lamps, is less than one hundred dollars,"
VOA: standard.2009.12.13
it's more indirect, more polite and a little bit less abrasive perhaps.
这样来得更委婉、有礼貌,也相对不会伤人感情。
So, this will be a little bit more like a seminar to start with, and a little bit less like a lecture in class.
所以着看起来有点像是讨论课,而不是讲课。
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