Young people who said they were active in religious groups,sports or had other interests were less likely to discuss risky behaviors.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

In every one of those seventeen categories, the dollar-weighted returns were less than the time-weighted returns.

发现这17种基金中的每一种,货币加权回报率,都是低于时间加权回报率的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Here's a twist, and if you found people who were less wonderful than you all, and asked them, you'd get a lot of people saying the curving thing.

这是错误的,如果你去找一些没有你们优秀的人,问他们这个问题,很多人会回答你沿着曲线飞出

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She noted that racial and ethnic minorities were less likely to have insurance and less likely to get the treatments they needed.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

That meant that people growing corn were less-- less vulnerable to having things wipe out entire crops because there were different types of crops planted around the world, so the world corn supply would never be threatened by anything.

也就是说只要人们种植玉米,整个粮食体系就不可能那么轻易被摧毁,由于世界各地种植着不同品种的玉米,世界玉米供应不会受到任何影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But Professor Rottenberg says those who felt shame or embarrassment while crying were less likely to report that crying had been helpful.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Though she knew even less about radios than about southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

映入她的眼帘，虽然她对于收音机的了解,比对南加州的还要少，不过这两者都有一种,如同象形文字的意味，有一种隐蔽的，想要沟通的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And they were less likely to have a stillbirth, the loss of a fetus after twenty weeks.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

You chose Alpha; I'm assuming these were roughly your payoffs, more or less, you were caring about your grades.

你选择的是α,我想这差不多就是你的收益了吧,你关注自己的成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Ms.Ziegelman suggests that the Irish were less protective of their food traditions.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone there were 10,000 less shoemakers than there had been before.

然而,一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查,就少了一万名鞋匠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"Women who had their ovaries removed had a decrease in the risk of breast cancer, a decrease in the risk of ovarian cancer and,in addition,they were less likely to die of breast cancer, less likely to die of ovarian cancer and also had an improvement in their overall survival."

VOA: special.2010.09.22

Prior to the bailout money for the banks, the banks were lending a certain amount, after the bailout money, the banks were lending less.

在拯救银行的措施实施之前，银行在贷款，而救市之后，银行价款量反而少了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

She says her professors were less than enthusiastic to see her in class.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Phase One, the million and a half years ago, in the early--in the late--Miocene and early Pleistocene phases, there was shift where people were less likely to be just going out and gathering foods from every place they could find it.

第一阶段,一百五十万年前,在整个中新世以及更新世的早期,情况开始转变,人们不光靠,出门四处搜集食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Those studies - in Europe and the United States - found that people who drank a lot of coffee were less likely to develop cancers of the mouth and throat.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

And the people on the low bridge were much less likely to call her up. Okay?

后一组男学生,不太可能实验后会联系她？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

While studying warships, Fuller realized that they weighed much less than buildings, yet were able to do much more.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

And, what they were trying to do was imagine a new world which would be less centralized; but, for the socialists, they wanted more centralization.

他们留下的目的就是,能生活在一个没有中央集权的社会中,但是,对于社会主义者来说则正相反

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

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

If I'm American and you're from another country, I will view myself--this is a very--kind of obvious finding-- my obligations to you will be seen as less than if you were another American.

如果我是美国人，你是外国人，显而易见，我会觉得-,我对你的道义会少于,你是一个美国人的情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

American workers then began to protest,as their jobs were filled by immigrants who were happy to work for less money.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Because I thought everyone was going to be around like the 45 range because 66 is two-thirds, or right around of 100, and they were going to go two-thirds less than that and I did one less than that one.

因为我想每个人都会选45左右的数,因为66约等于一百的2/3,而大家会选比那小的,我就选了更小的数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The study found that hopeful individuals were fourteen percent less likely than other women to have died from any cause.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The hopeful women were also thirty percent less likely to have died from heart disease after the eight years.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The researchers found that those who had been circumcised were twenty-eight percent less likely to get genital herpes than uncircumcised men.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

About thirty percent of workers age sixteen to twenty-four with less than a high school diploma were unemployed last month.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Women who said they were physically active even once a week showed less cognitive impairment as measured by a test.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The planes were not big. They were just fifteen meters long with wings less than seven meters across.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Those who quickly became pregnant again were also less likely to have a pregnancy form in their fallopian tubes, a dangerous condition.

VOA: special.2010.08.11