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。

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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,

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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

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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。

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That's a little less popular now, but.

不过，现在，投资银行不那么热门了。

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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。

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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。

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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

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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。

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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。

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Then I'm going to release these little pegs here and my piston is going to shoot up now p1 because p2 is less than p1.

现在移开插销,活塞就会往上冲,因为p2小于。

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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%

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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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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。

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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。

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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。

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