英语释义

• (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer;

  "less than three weeks"

  "no less than 50 people attended"

  "in 25 words or less"

• comparative of little;

  "she walks less than she should"

  "he works less these days"

• used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs;

  "less interesting"

  "less expensive"

  "less quickly"

• (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree;

  "of less importance"

  "less time to spend with the family"

  "a shower uses less water"

  "less than three years old"

• (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality;

  "no less than perfect"

• (usually preceded by `no') lower in esteem;

  "no less a person than the king himself"

片语

Myriactis Less粘冠草属

still less更不用说；更何况

less than小于；少于；不到

less exposed损失可能性小

far less大大小于，少得多

Less tax所欠税款

none the less依然

Less Temper脾气小一点

less is more少即是多；物稀为贵

air less不通风的；没有风的；缺少空气的

less of少于…...

less and less越来越少；越来越少的

less expensive比较便宜的

Karelinia Less花花柴属

no less than不少于，多达…；正如

no less仍然；不相上下；依旧

little less than与…不相上下；与…几乎相同

less likely最不可能的是；较少可能

something less than较…少几分

less than or equal小于或等于

Nothing less无外乎

less developed欠发达地区；不发达的

any less更少一些

英汉例句

• each new customer makes you less money than the last one.

  每个新客户都比上一个客户让你赚更少的钱。

• on everyman, you get something of the same effect, but much less so.

  做e计划，你也会得到同样的效果，但是比这少得多。

• spend less than you earn, go without until you have the money.

  一定要比自己挣的花的少，如果没有那么多钱，就不要行动。

• far less controversial is the recycling of glass—except, that is, in places where there is no market for it.

  遭受较少争议的便是玻璃制品的回收处—也就是，除了在那些缺乏其消费市场的地方。

• how do you achieve more in less time?

  如何用更少的时间完成更多的事？

• can you learn to be content with what you do have, realizing that so many other people have much much less than you?

  你可以学着对你所拥有的感到满足吗？ 能够意识到还有许许多多的人远比你少吗？

• you waste less time when you do this.

  你这样做的话你就会花费较少的时间。

• you would probably have less code, and it would all be used.

  可能您拥有的代码会更少，并且它们都会被派上用场。

• and then make it do less of that one thing.

  然后，让它们做的比那一件事还要少。

• this radio is poor in quality; it broks down within less than a year of use.

  这台收音机质量很差，用了不到一年就坏了。

• but you have to balance the extra calories by eating less of other things.

  但是另一方面，你不得不通过少吃其它东西来平衡额外的卡路里。

• you should bestow more time to work and less to daydreaming.

  你应多花点时间去工作而少花点时间去幻想。

• by handling content in this way, you have much less code in each of your handler methods.

  通过以这种方式处理内容，每个处理程序方法中的代码就要少得多。

• why, then, should we not study the acquisition of a cognitive structure like language more or less as we study some complex bodily organ?

  我们为什么不应当,像研究某些复杂身体器官那样,去或多或少地研究,像语言这样的认知结构的习得

• in the set of natural numbers, every number is either odd or even, and there is not one even number that is more or less even than any other even number.

  在自然数的集合里，每个数字不是奇数就是偶数，不存在一 个偶数或多或少比另一个偶数更像偶数这样的情形。

• the origins of these cultures are more or less obvious.

  这些文化的起源或多或少是显而易见的。

• if a proxy server fails, the affinity is to the container and not to the proxy itself so there is one less potential failure along the message flow.

  如果代理服务器失败，关联性是与容器的关联性，而不是与代理本身的关联性，因此关系流中少了一个潜在的故障点。

• losing more sweat in peacetime (training, etc.) means shedding less blood in war.

  平时多流汗，战时少流血。

• and although they are not less likely to divorce, they are more likely to remarry — an act that is, as samuel johnson wrote, the triumph of hope over experience.

  虽然他们并不是更少可能离婚，但他们更容易再婚——这种行为，塞缪尔·约翰逊曾写到，是希望在与经历的对抗中取得了胜利。

• if we simply give in to every whimsical desire we have, virtually no one would spend less than they earn.

  如果我们轻易地向我们异想天开的欲望屈服，事实上没有人会花得比自己挣的少。

• less work, but not work that i want to do at all.

  工作量虽然少了，但这毕竟不是我想做的事情。

相似词

minor未成年人；小调；辅修科目

reduced减少的；[数] 简化的；缩减的

fewer较少数

secondary副手；代理人

below在……下面；（位置或层面）低于；在……以下，低于

morepro 更多的数量

fewer较少数

without外部，外面

reduced减少的；[数] 简化的；缩减的

minus减，减去；零下；（非正式）无，欠缺（曾经有过的东西）

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morepro 更多的数量