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。
To be frank, I prefer the former to the latter.
坦白来讲，比起后者，我更喜欢前者。
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。
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。
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 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。
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 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。
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。
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。
He shares interests with the latter and enjoys talking to her.
他与小兰有着共同的兴趣爱好，并很愿意和她聊天。
I think it's the latter, and that's what ZipCar is trying to do.
我认为后者更有可能，而这也正是ZipCar努力的方向。
The former may have more users, but the latter is classier and cleaner in design.
也许前者的用户更多，但后者在设计上却更有品味、更加整洁。
In every case, you have a choice: Get angry, or don't. Try choosing the latter.
无论哪种情况，你都可以做出选择：生气还是不生气。
I am one of the latter, because I believe that traveling with someone has many advantages.
我属于后者，因为我认为结伴旅行有很多好处。
Virtue and vice are two different things: the former one leads to peace, the latter to misery.
美德与邪恶是不同的，前者带来和平，后者导致痛苦。
Bones contain both phosphorus and calcium, the latter of which is needed by muscles and nerves.
骨头里含有磷和钙，而其中的钙对于肌肉和神经来说必不可少。
There were opals and sapphires, the former in cups of crystal, and the latter in cups of jade.
水晶杯里盛着蛋白石，碧玉杯里载着蓝宝石。
I think the latter is more likely for a starting position, especially if you have little experience.
我想从基层做起的话，后者的可能性要大一些，尤其是你没有什么工作经验的话。
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
王的脸光，使人有生命。王的恩典，好像春云时雨。
The moon revolves around the earth in such a manner that it always faces the latter with the same side.
月球围绕地球运动的方式是这样的，即它始终以同一面朝着地球。
It moves in tension with both chaos and creativity, injured by the former and enriched by the latter.
它在混乱与创造两者之间的张力之中移动，它被前者所损害，但被后者所丰富。
He understood my strengths and weaknesses and how to make the most of the former and minimize the latter.
他了解我的长处和短处，知道怎样扬长避短。
People are alive but money is not, which makes it wrong - because it is life-denying - to prefer the latter.
人是有生命的，而金钱没有，因此看重金钱而不看重人是错误的，因为这样是对生命的不尊重。
There's a fine line between being friendly and personable and being awkward. You do not want to be the latter.
对人友善、讨人喜欢与不合时宜令人尴尬之间的差别其实是很微妙的，你总不希望自己是后一种情况吧。
There's a fine line between being friendly and personable and being awkward. You do not want to be the latter.
对人友善、讨人喜欢与不合时宜令人尴尬之间的差别其实是很微妙的，你总不希望自己是后一种情况吧。
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