This is because lighter colors take in less of the strong heat of the sun than dark colors do.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

We transition to actually real world applications later on like a compression-- how do you take a huge amount of data ; and actually whittle it down into something more manageable; something that uses less of your disk space.

然后我们会讲生活中的应用程序,比方说压缩文件——,把大量的数据分解使其更易管理;,并占用尽量少的磁盘空间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

or wanting less of something as well.

或是要得少的想法。

That's all课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For that reason, says Mister Stephens, the more someone swears, the less of an effect the words have.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Should people eat more of this food and less of this food?

人们应不应该多吃这种食物,少吃那种食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"My wife is a little bit less of a social media user than I am.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Now, compare the first element in each of these lists. Two is less than three, so two ought to be the next element of the list.

现在，比较每个列表的第一个元素,2要比3小，所以2应该是合并后列表的，下一个元素，然后你们就知道了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

As the sport became more popular, it became less and less of a sport.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

But because there's this lone pair here, it's pushing down on the other bonds, 5° so we end up with an angle of less than 109 . 5 degrees.

但因为这里有孤对，它会把其它键向下压，所以键角会小于109。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But lately bankruptcy became less and less of a surprise.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Some Democrats hope she will win, saying that Angle poses less of a threat to Harry Reid in November.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

That's a lot less than the amount of money out there but they always had fractional reserve of banking anyway.

这比流通的金钱少的多,但是他们总是有部分准备金银行制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"If coal and gas and oil had to pay the price for the damage that they did,we would use a whole lot less of them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

To be honest, especially those of you less comfortable here, if you've ever struggled with some program or struggled with some piece of software, oh it's alright, it's not your fault.

说实话，尤其是对那些在这里上课有些吃力的同学，如果你曾经使用哪个程序或软件有困难,好吧，那不是你的错。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Whereas here, there is less of that tradition and I hope that tradition is growing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Now I submit that the Lady would appear to be less in control of her fantasies than she is of her rigorously disciplined behavior.

现在我认为,小姐会试着不被自己的幻想控制,因为她有着很强的自律能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The study found that eighty-five percent of women who waited less than six months to get pregnant had live births.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

But what's even worse is I'm going to get even less than the average amount of life.

但更糟糕的是,我活得比平均寿命还要短。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The study found that those who received lower doses of steroids by mouth spent less time in the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

So,as the vaccine was passed from arm to arm, it became less potent, and the length of protection that it would give you varied.

所以当疫苗从一个人传给另一个人之后,它的防治效力会减弱,它带给人的免疫期限也会改变

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

A lot of times president sees his family less than a few of his close aids.

很多时候总统见家里人,不及见一些近身的助手。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A low-fat diet is one in which less than thirty percent of a person's daily calorie intake comes from fat.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

But more or less, in terms of how you can be reached most easily by telephone.

多少考虑下，哪个地方只要打电话,就能联系到你。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

By two thousand seven,however, the numbers were down to less than ten percent of boys and only eight percent of girls.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

As we expected, it's less than one, and of course if we build an engine, we want it to be as high as possible, as close to one as possible.

就像预先期待的一样，效率小于一，当然如果我们建造一台热机，我们希望效率越高越好，尽可能接近一。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The study found that Jews are less than two percent of the adult population of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

So in the sense there is opportunity, and there may be more opportunity in the long run even if kind of the entrepreneurial opportunities are less frothy than they might have been in the short run.

因此从这个意义上讲现在是大好时机，长期来看会有更多的机遇,如果创业的机会不像短期机遇,看起来那么空洞的话。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

But yet Muscovy was considerably less important than the commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was considerably much greater and subject to struggles with and influence by that state.

但俄国的影响力仍远不及,波兰-立陶宛联邦,后者远远比俄国强大,但却受制于两国的争端所照成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选