used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs;

"less interesting"

"less expensive"

"less quickly"

I like writing SF and to a lesser extent fantasy, but I can also see doing some historical novels and alternate histories.

我喜欢创作科幻，也不排斥奇幻，但我也想写一些历史小说和或然历史题材的小说。

Women, and to a lesser extent men, also seemed to benefit from good relationships with their parents and spouses.

女性还能从与父母和和配偶的良好关系中受益，男性在这方面所受的影响比女性要大。

The most common sources of meat are domesticated animal species such as cattle, pigs and poultry and to a lesser extent buffaloes, sheep and goats.

肉类最常见的来源是驯养的动物品种，如牛、猪和家禽，其次是水牛、绵羊和山羊。

Of the health care resources available, most are currently spent on the specialized treatment and care of the people with mental illness, and to a lesser extent on an integrated mental health system.

在现有的卫生保健资源中，目前大部分用于对精神疾病的专门治疗和护理，较少一部分用于综合性精神卫生系统。

At Sketchy「s and Gallery Girls - and to a lesser extent the Drawing Club - things are different.

然而在素描博士和画廊女孩里——更小范围内的绘画俱乐部——情况就不同了。

There was a competitive race across the Atlantic and - to a lesser extent - the Pacific.

大西洋两岸展开了激烈的竞赛，太平洋两岸同样如此，只是规模较小。

For Mr Ben Ali, and to a lesser extent Mr Mubarak, defending women」s rights was a useful SOP to the West.

对于本。阿里先生以及较小程度上的对于穆巴拉克先生来说，保卫女性权益是向西方国家示好的有利工具。

Now it is benefiting people in private-equity firms (and to a lesser extent hedge funds), who receive a large part of their pay in the form of 「carried interest」—usually 20% of investment gains.

现在却使得私人股份企业的人们受益了(更小范围而言是避险基金),他们收到的很大一部分收入都是以”附带权益”的形式存在的—一般是投资受益的20%.

Most of those in the top ten have made handsome gains since 1996, although Benin and to a lesser extent Namibia, Tunisia and Lesotho have all lost ground.

自1996年以来，前十名国家中的大多数都取得了很大的增长，尽管贝宁和一定程度上的纳米比亚，突尼斯和莱索托都在退步。