It's a fallacy that the affluent give relatively more to charity than the less prosperous.
富人比不太有钱的人给慈善机构相对更多捐赠是一种谬见。
The president now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
总统现在看起来是一个比一星期前刚就任时更多历练、更少自信的政客了。
She could earn $200 a night, more or less.
她一晚上大约能挣200元。
It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
一个几乎普遍的真理是，工作上提升得越高，我们最初的那些工作技能实际上就用得越少。
And he was more or less a practising Muslim throughout his life.
而他差不多一生都是个信奉穆斯林的人。
We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
我们多少有些心血来潮地决定乘船去摩洛哥。
'More haste, less speed' is a well-known paradox.
“欲速则不达”是人们熟知的似非而是的隽语。
However, genetic learning depends upon a prediction that the future will more or less resemble the past.
然而，基因学习基于一种预测，即未来或多或少会与过去相似。
Thus our bodies continuously exchange old substance for new, just like a spring which more or less maintains its form and movement, but in which the water molecules are always different.
因此，我们的身体不断地把旧物质替换成新的，就像一个喷泉，或多或少地保持着它的形式和运动，但其中的水分子总是不同的。
What's more, a study in the UK showed that adults who eat breakfast daily put on less weight and also perform better at work.
更重要的是，英国的一项研究表明，每天吃早餐的成年人体重增加较少，而且工作表现更好。
As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.
作为一个群体，总体来说，“夜猫子”型的人往往比早起的人吃的健康食品更少，摄入的卡路里更多。
Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy.
即使是一个生态效率高得多的工业系统，如果它发展得更大，也会比更小、更不生态效率的经济产生更多的垃圾，破坏更多的栖息地和物种。
Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.
Mies的口头禅意味着少用装饰、安排得当，比用很多（装饰）效果更明显。
They're willing to make more trips to haul back less wood, which carries a greater risk of being exposed to predators.
它们宁愿多走几次，每次只带回较少的木料，这就增加了在捕食者面前暴露的风险。
In recent years, there is a growing tendency for people to shop online, and most people more or less have the experience of shopping online.
近年来，网购有增长趋势，大多数人或多或少都有过网上购物的经历。
The special fare systems on the airlines' computers encourage more people to fly on less popular flights, and this means that as a result all flights are equally full.
航空公司电脑上的特殊票务系统鼓励更多的人乘坐不那么受欢迎的航班，这意味着结果所有航班的客流量都是一样的。
New electric engines coupled with artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will contribute to a more efficient, integrated transport system that is less polluting and less noisy.
新型电动引擎与人工智能和自主系统相结合，将有助于建立一个更高效、污染更少、噪音更少的综合运输系统。
With a lesson more or less, we are always the same donkeys.
不管多上一课还是少上一课，我们最后都是头笨驴。
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.
但谈到房子的问题，情况完全不同。当时的人们普遍相信少即是多。
A more disturbing trend in America today is that teens are spending far less time reading than around four decades ago.
当今美国一个更令人不安的趋势是，青少年花在阅读上的时间比40年前要少得多。
People who spend more than an hour a day on social media are less happy than those who spend less time on it.
每天在社交媒体上花超过一小时的人，不如在社交媒体上花更少时间的人快乐。
What's less clear is whether divorce and separation rates rise in a recession—financial pressures mean couples argue more but make splitting up less affordable.
不太清楚的是，在经济衰退的压力下，离婚率和分居率是否会上升——经济压力意味着夫妻之间的争吵会更多，但让离婚变得更难以承受。
Saif looked less like a hedge funder and more like a fist-pumping militant in fatigues.
赛义夫看起来不太像一个对冲基金经理，而更像一个穿着迷彩服挥舞拳头的激进分子。
Not all colleges offer merit aid; generally, the more selective a school is, the less likely it is to do so.
不是所有的大学都会提供奖学金；一般来说，越挑剔的学校越不可能这样做。
Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to examine, but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes.
通常，一百个样本要花费实验技术员超过两天的时间来检测，但是一只老鼠只需要花费不到二十分钟。
If it has its own IP address, we can use the access point itself over the network; this is less secure, but more fun to use for a demo.
如果它有自己的IP地址，那么我们就可以在网络上使用接入点本身了；这样做的安全性要差一些，但在用于演示方面会更有趣。
The study also found that someone who is humble is more likely to initiate a romantic relationship, perhaps because they are less likely to see themselves as "too good" for someone else.
研究还发现，谦虚的人更有可能开始一段恋情，也许是因为他们不太可能“自视过高”从而认为别人高攀不上。
And, while there's evidence that instructors must work harder to run a DL course for a variety of reasons, they won't be paid any more, and might well be paid less.
而且，虽然有证据表明，由于各种原因，教师必须更加努力地学习以开设一门DL课程，但他们不会得到更多的报酬，而且很可能得到的报酬更少。
A ratio of less red and to more far-red light would cause a reaction from the plant.
较少红光和较多远红光的比例会引起植物的反应。
From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.
从社会的角度来看，看手机不太像在公共场合打嗝，而更像另一种坏习惯。
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