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。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

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。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

She could earn $200 a night, more or less.

她一晚上大约能挣200元。

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The military is already shifting to a newer, slightly less sophisticated aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, designed more for attacking targets on the ground.

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It's not even a zero-- or rather if I have less, you'll have less- that's a negative sum game-- or a zero sum game-- if I have more, you'll have less- it's a fixed pie.

甚至不是一个零…,或者我更少，你也会更少，那也是负和游戏-,或零和游戏，我更多，你就会更少-,饼就那么大。

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But anyway, the confederate that they hired was a woman who was naturally attractive in most people's view but they made her look either more attractive or less attractive by giving her kind of frumpy clothes, bad make-up, and a frizzy wig.

不管怎么说，他们请的这个助手,在大多数人眼中亭亭玉立,他们可以把她包装得更漂亮,或打扮成丑女无敌,让她穿些邋遢的衣服，失败的妆容还带上卷曲的假发。

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Moreover, the vast bulk of Greece's bonds are written under local law, which gives it a more-or-less-free hand to impose a much bigger haircut than the trim being planned.

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Over the past decade, its transformation from a snooty commercial bank into a market-oriented investment bank has fostered a more outward-looking and less separatist culture.

ECONOMIST: Wall Street��s old order changes

In the USA the percentage of black women with morbid obesity - a BMI of 40 or more - has doubled in less than a decade to 15%.

BBC: Obesity epidemic tops 1.7bn