"If we do not fix our health care system, America may go the way of GM paying more,getting less and going broke,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Whenever a country imposes rules on business that hurts the business that makes it less appealing to consumers, there's a risk that,first of all, the businesses that do operate in the country will suffer.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

So there's less range of what you can do experimentally.

因此只有更少的种类,用来做这种实验。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"When we plotted the circuits in the brain against their childhood lead blood lead levels, we found that those with a higher blood lead measurement had less activity in the part of the brain normally left to do the attention tasks,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

There it had less to do often with social forms of reform although that's not entirely true than it had to do with the Civil Rights revolution and the Vietnam War.

通常来说,它与改革的社会形态关联较小,但是它与民权革命和越战的关系,也没有人们认为的那么紧密

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"You can't say,'We're going to do less because those numbers are pessimistic.' You say,'We have to do what we do in light of those numbers.'" House minority leader John Boehner repeated his assertion that President Obama has largely ignored Republican proposals on the budget and economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

It's because these are the women who have abdominal obesity, so women are less likely to have it in the first place, but many do, and of those who do and have that metabolic syndrome, then they're more susceptible to the heart disease outcomes than men are.

这是因为研究对象都是有腹部肥胖的女性,女性一开始的确比较少患腹部肥胖,但其中仍有人会有腹部肥胖,所以那些患代谢综合征的腹部肥胖女性,与男性相比更容易受到心脏疾病的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So strategic substitutes is telling me that my strategy is a strategic substitute of your strategy if the more I do at my strategy, the less you want to do of yours and conversely, the more you want to do of your strategy, the less I want to do of mine.

策略替代就是说,我的策略是你的策略的一种替代策略,我的策略实施越多,你的策略就会实施越少,反之,你的策略实施越多我的策略就越少

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And similarly, particularly for those less comfortable, do we offer prior to the start of each week for a new piece at what we dub a walkthrough whereby one of the teaching fellows will literally start on the first page, give you a mental framework for the week's problems and talk about the ideas that it covers, and then walk through the piece set so that you have a roadmap of sorts that you can follow.

同样，特别对于那些不熟悉编程跟不上进度的同学，每周上课前都可以预习新的知识点,一名教师从第一页开始,对于每周的问题,都给你们简历一个心理框架,并讨论它所涵盖的思想，然后了解了每个部分之后,就可以有个学习的路线图。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

OK? And in fact, if you look at the code up here, and it's on your handout, the very first one, x 1, right here- if I could ask you to look at it-- is a piece of code to do it. And I'm less interested in the code than how we're going to analyze it, but let's look at it for a second.

实际上，如果你看看,你们课堂发的材料上面的代码，第一页上的，就是那-,大家请看看实现的这一部分代码,我不太关心,我们会怎么解释这个代码,首先让我们先看看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Just to give you an example of that, for instance, I can do the following: all right, the number four is less than 4 the string three, whereas the string four, oops, is not less than the string three.

仅仅是给大家看一个例子，例如，我可以这么做：,好，数字4比,字符串3要小，而字符串，比字符串3要大。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So it feels a little backward mentally perhaps, 1 but this is saying, "do this block of code as long as n is less than 1."

所以它感觉可能有点迟缓，但是它指明，“只要n小于,执行这段代码“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选