A WORD, A WORLD
less
释义
- adv.
- 少；较少；更少；较小
- n.
- 较少
- prep.
- 减去；扣除
- adj.
- 较小的；较次的；身分较低的
- 网络
- 较少的；更少的；更小的
展开详细释义
adj.
1.更小的,较小的,更少的,较少的
2.较次的,较劣的,较不重要的;身分较低的
adv.
1.较少,更少
2.不那么;不如此
3.没有…那样
prep.
1.少掉;不足;减去
n.
1.较少,更小
常用短语 17 组
- less than
- 小于
- no less
- 仍然；不相上下；依旧
- no less than
- 不少于，多达…；正如
- less and less
- 越来越少；越来越少的
- far less
- 远不及
- less of
- ◎[Less of …!][口语]别…!停止…!少点…!
- less likely
- 最不可能的是；较少可能
- little less
- 少一点
- less expensive
- adj. 比较便宜的
- less developed
- 欠发达地区；不发达的
- still less
- 更不用说；更何况
- little less than
- 与…不相上于；与…几乎相同
- less is more
- 少即是多；物稀为贵
- any less
- 更少一些
- less than or equal
- 小于或等于
- none the less
- 依然
- something less than
- 较…少几分
在例句中理解 33 句
As such they're going to be less likely to have to snoop through a partner's things, trying to find indiscretions.
所以，他们不太可能去偷偷检查对方的东西，试图找出对方不检点的地方。
That was more or less what I was looking for, even though it was on the other side of Paris, so I decided to give it one more try.
这或多或少像是我在寻找的东西，因此我决定再试一次——尽管这个瑜伽馆开在巴黎的另一端。
But I'm guessing that it was all much less funny for you at the time.
但我猜对你设身处地的那个时代不见得有多大的趣味。
Teams have the ability to assign players with less than two years of experience to the NBA development league.
队有能力对全美篮球协会发展联盟分配有着少于二年的经验的运动员。
Quite frankly, I've never been asked if IBM could make DB2 slower, or more difficult to use, or less available - well, you get the point.
十分坦白地说，从来没人问过我IBM是否可以使DB2更慢一些，或更难于使用，或不那么可用——您应该已经明白了。
The Daily is thinly staffed and will cost less than half a million dollars a week to put out.
《日报》的员工配置简单，那么，每周的出版成本能减少50万美元。
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
随着我对人类了解越多，我的期望就越低，而且我现在准备好后，说人家是好人，更容易上比我以前。
China, with an economy less than one-third the size of the U. S. economy, is spending about $1 trillion on upgrading its infrastructure.
中国这个经济总量不到美国三分之一的国家，拿出了约一万亿美元来改善它的基础设施。
At least Rooney, perhaps in a less war-weary condition, will be back in England's colours in an attempt to qualify for 2014.
总之，备战或许不周的鲁尼还可以为2014年身披英格兰战袍奋斗。
Being a bit of an oddball may be an asset as an investor. It is less helpful if you need to persuade others to see things your way.
在投资方面做个怪人不见得是坏事，说服别人和你一样地看问题没有多大好处。
This was the critical moment, and one of nerves less steady, or of a training that had been neglected, would have seized it to rise and fly.
这是极其危急的时刻，一个人要是不够镇定，或者忘记了平日的训练，就会趁机爬起来逃跑。
The taxi will arrive in less than five minutes. As soon as the taxi arrives , we will be able to leave for the airport.
计程车〔计程车〕会在五分钟内到达。计程车一到，我们就能前往机场了。
He falls and hangs when his hand hurts, but, in less than 15 minutes, Graham has made his way up a possible . 14b.
手痛的时候他会脱手冲坠，或者悬吊在空中，不过不到15分钟，他就爬到了这条14b的顶点。
She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just blossomed forth from the twilight.
这东西，与其说象个人，倒不如说是刚从暮色中显现出来的一种形象。
When trying to decide whether an object will float in water, you need to know whether its density is greater or less than that of water.
若要判断一个物体是否会在水中沙浮起，就得知道该物体的密度比水大还是比水少。
How we got to this state is less important than how we get out of it.
我们是怎么会到这种心态并不重要，重要的是我们怎样才能摆脱这种心态。
Now, less than half a year has passed, we have already proposed and introduced a package plan to tackle the effect of the financial crisis.
现在，时间过去不到半年，我们已经提出了一揽子应对计划。
No degree of query optimizer intelligence can eliminate the resource cost of these constructs when compared to a less complex query.
与不太复杂的查询相比，查询优化器的智能水平无法消除这些构造的资源开销。
A pole is just a part of a globe receiving less sunlight than the equator of that globe.
一个极点就是火星全球的某部分，这里吸收到的阳光比火星赤道处的阳光要少。
He was puzzled by the tone in which she had summoned him; he concluded that she was less simple than she seemed.
她约他前来时的口吻令他困惑不解，他断定她并不像表面上那样单纯。
And this suggests the possibility of the US dollar at least becoming less popular as a reserve currency if the imbalances persist.
这表示若这些失衡情况持续，美元作为储备货币的受欢迎程度可能会减低。
In less than a week, congressional leaders seem to have reached agreement on the monster $700 billion bank bailout.
在不到一周的时间里，国会领导人们似乎已就7,000亿美元的庞大救助计划达成协议。
Small scale and less staff of the small & medium-sized enterprises make it easy to unify the thinking.
中小企业规模小，企业员工少，易于统一思想。
The crunch has made banks less able to lend and companies less willing to borrow, at least for a few years.
危机使得银行借贷能力下降，公司也不太愿意借款，至少这种情况得维持几年的时间。
Testers sometimes also become enamored of coverage, though their romance tends to be less fervent and ends sooner.
候测试员也变得倾心于覆盖率，虽然他们的兴趣没有那么高，而且结束得也快。
By the end of his matches he could barely limp around the court, much less move with the agility and speed the sport requires.
比赛结束后，他几乎不能绕赛场跛行，更别说做出比赛所需的敏捷、快速的动作了。
realising with each film i make. . . i make have to do less & less as an actor to achieve more. Khan has been a true self realisation film.
回顾我的每一部电影…作为演员我不得不尽可能少的流露本性来获得尽可能多的成就。Khan是一部真正梳理自我内心的一部电影。
For a start, there would be less of a sense of hurry to achieve and succeed right now.
首先，这将会减轻人们急于求成的心态。
The cause of metatarsal pain is often less apparent than in other regions of the foot, and in many cases plain X-rays are of no help.
原因往往是跖骨疼痛明显低于其他地区的脚，并在许多情况下，普通X射线是没有帮助。
it's not as simple as using less salt or sugar as though you were cutting down on your kilowatt hours.
但是健康饮食和电费单不同，这不仅仅是像减少千瓦时用电一样食用更少的盐或糖那么简单。
Maybe he would worry less if he understood the situation.
他要是了解情况，也许就不会那么担心了。
In recent years she has appeared in public less frequently.
近年来她在公开场合露面的次数少了。
Doctors recommend eating less salt.
医生建议少吃盐。