Today's busy families hardly have time to load the dishwasher, much less clean the doormat.
如今忙碌的家庭几乎没有时间把碗碟放进洗碗机，更不用说擦擦门垫了。
Think about how tough it is to get together 15 people, much less 50, who all get along perfectly.
想想把15个人聚集在一起有多困难，更不用说50个彼此关系很好的人了。
We have trouble discovering those sorts of bodies, much less studying them using just optical telescopes.
我们很难发现这类天体，更不用说用光学望远镜研究它们了。
Many years' surveys reveal that young people in America are going to the cinema much less often than they used to.
多年的调查显示，美国年轻人看电影的次数比过去少多了。
They say that her study doesn't even show that the bacteria would survive in the wild, much less kill massive numbers of plants.
他们说，她的研究甚至没有表明这种细菌能在野外生存，更不用说杀死大量植物了。
In another analysis, researchers found that today's teens go out with their friends much less often than previous generations did.
在另一项分析中，研究人员发现，如今的青少年与朋友外出的次数比前几代人少得多。
The Permian event has attracted much less attention than other mass extinctions because mostly unfamiliar species perished at that time.
二叠纪大灭绝事件比其他大灭绝事件受到的关注要少得多，因为那时灭绝的大多是我们不熟悉的物种。
I certainly didn't understand how they even connected really to chemical reactions, much less other disciplines that I was interested in.
我当然不明白它们是如何与化学反应联系起来的，更不用说我感兴趣的其他学科了。
However, we now know that since oxygen levels were much lower in the Mesozoic than we assumed, there was much less plant life for sauropods to eat than we thought.
然而我们现在知道了，由于中生代空气的含氧量比我们想象的要低得多，所以蜥脚类动物可食用的植物也比我们想象的要少得多。
Green buildings like this aren't necessarily cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy production through fossil fuels.
对投资者来说，像这样的绿色建筑不一定具有成本效益，但它产生的污染确实比通过化石燃料产生能源的过程少得多。
It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought.
在地铁或公共汽车上，一个身强力壮的男学生在冲向最后一个座位时，用胳膊肘把老妇人推到一边，这算不了什么，更不用说他本应站起来给她让座了。
She got much less than she would have done if she had settled out of court.
她得到的远不如她若庭外和解得到的多。
The council's land is now worth much less than originally hoped because of a slump in property prices.
由于地产价格的暴跌，委员会的土地目前大不如原来所希望的那么值钱了。
The little cars of the future will cost much less money to own and to drive.
未来的小型车的购买和驾驶成本会更低。
The Grand Canal is much less famous than the Great Wall, and not very many tourists visit it.
大运河没有长城出名，参观它的游客不多。
One day, he gave up his job and moved to a ranch in Texas, making much less money as a cowboy.
有一天，他辞了职，搬到德克萨斯州的一个牧场，当牛仔赚的钱少了很多。
He had the upper body of a six feet boy, but because of his legs, he was much less than six feet.
他有着六尺男孩的上半身，但因为他的腿，他远没有六英尺高。
Many westerners that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.
对于许多来到中国的西方人来说，一旦意识到在外就餐如此便宜，就不会像在自己的国家那样经常自己做饭。
He was sitting in his armchair, and looked not quite so severe, and much less gloomy.
他坐在扶手椅里，看上去不那么严肃，也不那么阴沉。
In addition, breathing during REM depends much more on the action of the diaphragm and much less on rib cage action.
另外，快速眼动期的呼吸活动更多地取决于横膈膜的反应活动，而胸腔的作用要小得多。
In addition, breathing during REM depends much more on the action of the diaphragm and much less on rib cage action.
另外，快速眼动期的呼吸活动更多地取决于横膈膜的反应活动，而胸腔的作用要小得多。
As is often the case with human beings, many animals sleep a lot when young, but sleep much less when they get older.
和人类一样，许多动物年幼时睡得多，但长大后睡少了很多。
Although the climate remained as unpredictable as ever between one year and the next, it became much less locally diverse.
尽管在这一年到下一年之间，气候仍然像以往一样难以预测，但当地的多样性已经大大减少。
Asthma, a bronchial condition, is much less common ailment than hay fever, an allergic inflammation of the nasal passages.
哮喘是一种支气管疾病，比花粉热（一种鼻道的过敏性炎症）要少见得多。
When mice are given both morphine and the new drug naltrexone, blood poisoning is much less frequent, although it does still occur.
当老鼠同时服用吗啡和新型药物纳曲酮时，虽然仍会发生血液中毒，但发生的频率大大降低。
In contrast, a spouse usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services or to put the dependent person in a nursing home.
相比之下，配偶，通常是其妻子，更不可能使用看护服务或是把其依赖的人送进养老院。
In contrast, a spouse, usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services or to put the dependent person in a nursing home.
相比之下，配偶的一方，通常是妻子，不大可能使用支援服务或是把需要供养的人送进养老院。
If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.
如果你和我空降回到1990年的《财富》500强公司，我们很少会看到有人使用旅程、使命、激情这样的词汇。
Besides, I am more tired of waking up on these fine autumn mornings to find even the apples on my side of the fence is much less in number.
此外，我更厌倦了在这些晴朗的秋日早晨醒来却发现甚至是我这一边的篱笆上的苹果也少得多。
Overall, there was a large generational shift in which the second generation of parents was much less likely to spank than their own parents.
总体上看，有一个很大的一代人的转变，与自己的父母相比，第二代父母更不可能打屁股。
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