In addition,using the lambs costs much less than hiring workers to prune the vines for seven weeks in the summer.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

and it's much more relevant and less pompous than it used to be.

它与过去相比更亲民，不那么傲慢了。

英国皇室的意义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One method was to sell oil in one area of the country for much less than the oil was worth.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

For most of you on your homework assignments, I'm hoping it's a little less than that, but not much less than that.

你们一起做作业的时候,我希望作业不会消耗你们那么多时间,比20小时少点就行了呗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The decrease was less than expected, and much less than at the start of the year.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

% Less than 1% - Much less than 1%.

不到1%，-，远远少于。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He quickly learns that gravity on Mars is much less than on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

In this respect it seems to me much less like just a branch of political science than the foundation of the entire discipline.

从这个角度切入，我认为它,并不像只是政治科学的分支,而更像是整个学科的基石。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But that may be hard to do ince primary care physicians earn much less than specialists.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Because in this account military skill is much less important than ritual preparation and purity.

因为在这一叙述中，军事技巧并不重要,比起宗教仪式准备和纯净圣洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The experts at the University of Illinois say pieces that weigh less than thirty grams may not produce as much.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

But yet Muscovy was considerably less important than the commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was considerably much greater and subject to struggles with and influence by that state.

但俄国的影响力仍远不及,波兰-立陶宛联邦,后者远远比俄国强大,但却受制于两国的争端所照成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Light-emitting diodes are small glass lamps that use much less electricity than traditional bulbs and last much longer.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

That argument's much less compelling nowadays than I think it would have been 20 or 40 years ago.

这个论点在今天远不及在20年前,或40年前有说服力了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Stephen Hillenburg,says he did not expect the series to last longer than one season, much less ten years.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Then there are always things that we might call much less rational than that.

另外,还有其他的一些原因,我们称之为非理性决定

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Ulysses Grant would prove to be much less successful in politics than in war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Maybe the answer, or an answer, to this question is revealed in the Crito, the companion dialogue, the companion speech that goes along with the Apology, although it typically gets much less attention than the Apology.

也许答案或任何一种响应，这个问题的答案都可在《克里托篇》寻得，这是柏拉图的另一篇语录，另一篇,与《苏格拉底自辩篇》等齐的辩论，但一般较少受到,与《苏格拉底自辩篇》等同的注意。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I once landed on my face. I soon learned that it took much less effort for me to move on Mars than it did on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Snow contains much less water than rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

"There are many explanations." "One,is we are just much less active than we used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Alexander said the Obama administration's proposed subsidies for solar, wind and agricultural energy development will not make much difference, since those forms of energy provide less than two percent of America's electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25