They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.
他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。
In the latter you may only be able to read one page.
如果是后者，你可能只能读一页。
To be frank, I prefer the former to the latter.
坦白来讲，比起后者，我更喜欢前者。
Measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better course.
以被挽救的生命来衡量，后者几乎必定是更好的选择。
I prefer the latter, because I feel that it's much more convenient and cheaper.
我更喜欢后者，因为我觉得它更方便，更便宜。
The latter was an important factor in attracting settlers to the United States during the 19th century.
后者是19世纪吸引移民到美国的一个重要因素。
This suggests that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and ultimately opting for the latter.
这表明，他们在真相和谎言之间做出了选择，最终选择了后者。
If the latter, there's no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse pills or the most expensive bottles.
如果是后者，就没有必要走极端，买最大剂量的大药片或最昂贵的瓶瓶罐罐。
If the former are greater, the lake is a surface-water-dominated lake; if the latter, it is a seepage-dominated lake.
如果前者较大，这个湖就是一个以表层水为主的湖泊；如果是后者，则是一个以渗漏为主的湖泊。
Steamed dumpling contains low calorie, equivalent to only 70% of the latter, and lower fat and carbohydrate than rice.
馒头热量低，只相当于后者的70%，而且脂肪和碳水化合物比米饭更低。
The latter, an art and literary critic, who eventually recognised that camera images could be inspired as well as informative.
后者是一位艺术和文学评论家，他最终认识到，摄影图像不仅能提供信息，还能激发灵感。
The former offers more excitement and convenience while the latter offers a cleaner, quieter and often friendlier place to live.
前者提供了更多的刺激和便利，而后者提供了一个更干净、更安静、通常也更友好的居住环境。
In the latter decades of the twentieth century there were intensified efforts to understand and record the abundance of Australian rock art.
在二十世纪的后几十年里，人们加紧努力去了解和记录丰富的澳大利亚岩石艺术。
The Springer Group has filed a lawsuit in the Daily News, accusing the latter of initiating a road name change that was too labor-intensive and costly.
施普林格集团已经一纸诉状将《每日新闻》告上法庭，控告后者发起的修改路名之举过于劳民伤财。
What is good politics may be bad morals, and in fact, by a strange fatality, where morals and politics clash, the latter generally gets the upper hand.
好的政治可能是不道德的，事实上，由于一种奇怪的宿命，当道德和政治发生冲突时，后者通常占上风。
Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do.
医院教学的原因从防止孩子落后和保持学校的习惯到让孩子被占着，而后者往往是老师所能做的事情。
The latter often still think mainly in terms of the "social responsibility approach" and thus seem to prefer deals that are riskier and less attractive than normal investment criteria would warrant.
后者往往还是以“社会责任方式”为主要思路，因此似乎更倾向于风险较大、吸引力较一般投资标准低的交易。
He presented two solutions. The latter seems much better.
他提出了两个解决方案，后一个看起来要好得多。
The exercises can be fun and a good warm-up for the latter part of the programme.
这些练习很有趣，还可以为后面的课程做热身准备。
The windows would probably have been crafted in the latter part of the Middle Ages.
这些窗户可能是中世纪后期精制而成。
The town has a concert hall and two theatres. The latter were both built in the 1950s.
这座城市有一个音乐厅和两个剧院。这两个剧院都是在20世纪50年代建成的。
There are the people who speak after they think and the people who think while they're speaking. Mike definitely belongs in the latter category.
有些人先想后说，有些人边想边说。迈克当然属于后一类人。
He rode away, and when he reached his father, the latter was dangerously ill, and near his death.
他骑马走了，当他到达他的父亲身边时，他的父亲已经病得很重，快要死了。
For those of us in the latter group—consigned to coach, bereft of Flash Pass, too poor or proper to pay a placeholder—what do we do?
对于我们这些属于后一类的人——被指派去当教练、没有快速通行证、太穷或不适合付钱给占位者——该怎么办？
Iridium occurs in meteorites and volcanic material, but in the latter case it is accompanied by elevated levels of nickel and chromium.
铱存在于陨石和火山物质中，但在火山物质中同时包含高浓度的镍和铬。
If you never record DVDs, you can save money by buying a cheaper combo drive, which plays both DVDs and CDs but records only the latter.
如果你从不刻录DVD，那么你可以省些钱买比较便宜的combo驱动器，它可以播放 DVD和CD，但是只能刻录 CD。
As an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and restore failing grades.
作为后一点的例子，他注意到各大大学在收紧评分标准和恢复不及格成绩方面的努力越来越大。
In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.
在去年接受《经济学人》采访时，太空旅游公司维珍银河的首席执行官乔治·怀特赛兹将他的公司归为后一类。
The latter two sources are limited to those few areas where surface water seeps down through underground faults or fractures to reach deep rocks heated by the recent activity of molten rock material.
后两种来源局限于少数区域，在这些区域，地表水通过地下断层或断裂往下渗透，从而接触到被近期的熔岩活动加热的深层岩石。
The latter two sources are limited to those few areas where surface water seeps down through underground faults or fractures to reach deep rocks heated by the recent activity of molten rock material.
后两种来源局限于少数区域，在这些区域，地表水通过地下断层或断裂往下渗透，从而接触到被近期的熔岩活动加热的深层岩石。
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