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高中CET4CET6

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基本释义

adv.
较少地,较小地; 更少,较小
prep.
减去; 少掉; 不足
n.
较少,较小

实用例句

less butter/time/importance

较少的黄油 / 时间;次要

牛津词典

He was advised to smoke fewer cigarettes and drink less beer.

有人劝他少抽烟、少喝啤酒。

牛津词典

We have less to worry about now.

现在我们要担忧的事少一些了。

牛津词典

It is less of a problem than I'd expected.

问题不像我预料的那么大。

牛津词典

We'll be there in less than no time (= very soon) .

我们马上就到。

牛津词典

The victory was nothing less than a miracle.

这场胜利是个不折不扣的奇迹。

牛津词典

As time passed, she saw less and less of all her old friends at home.

随着时间的消逝,她越来越见不到家乡那些老朋友了。

牛津词典

She's having lunch with the Director, no less.

她居然在与主管一起进午餐。

牛津词典

People should eat less fat to reduce the risk of heart disease.

人们应该减少脂肪摄入,以降低患心脏病的危险。

...a dishwasher that uses less water and electricity than older machines...

较旧式机器省水省电的洗碗机

Motorways actually cover less than 0.1 percent of the countryside...

高速公路的实际覆盖面积还不到农村地区的0.1%。

Less than a half hour later he returned upstairs.

不到半个小时,他又跑上楼来。

I often think about those less fortunate than me...

我经常想到那些没我这么幸运的人。

Other amenities, less commonly available, include a library and exercise room...

还有一些不太常有的设施,包括图书馆和健身房。

At first sight it looked less like a capital city than a mining camp...

乍看上去,它不像是首府,更像是矿工村。

Trades union leadership in those days was less a career than a vocation.

那时候的工会领导与其说是一份职业,倒不如说是一种使命。

We are eating more and exercising less...

我们吃得多了,锻炼却少了。

I see less of any of my friends than I used to.

我见所有朋友都比以前少了。

I never talked about it, still less about her...

我从来没说起过这事,更没有提起过她。

The boy didn't have a girlfriend, much less a wife.

这小伙子连女朋友都没有,更不用提老婆了。

...Boyton Financial Services Fees: £750, less £400...

博伊顿金融服务费:750英镑,扣除400英镑

Company car drivers will pay between ten and twenty five percent, less tax.

公司的司机要支付10%到25%,从中扣除税款。

The couple seem to spend less and less time together...

两口子在一起的时间似乎越来越少。

She sounded less and less eager to return to Ireland...

听她话音,她回爱尔兰的热情似乎日渐消退。

Her greeting was less than enthusiastic...

她的问候一点都不热情。

Her advice has frequently been less than wholly helpful.

她的建议往往毫无帮助。

He had returned to England in an aircraft carrier no less...

他竟然坐航空母舰回的英格兰。

Who wrote the screenplay from Patricia Highsmith's book? Raymond Chandler, no less.

帕特里夏·海史密斯那本书是谁改编成剧本的?雷蒙德·钱德勒呀,厉害。

No less than 35 per cent of the country is protected in the form of parks and nature sanctuaries...

该国多达35%的地区以公园和自然保护区的形式受到保护。

He is lined up for no less than four US television interviews.

多达4家美国电视媒体排期邀请他上节目接受采访。

真题例句

A Pearson spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that "digital materials are less expensive and a good investment" that offer new features, like audio texts, personalized knowledge checks and expert videos.

2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

A woman encouraged to try knitting and crocheting after developing an autoimmune disease that caused a lot of hand pain reported on the Craft Yam Council site that her hands are now less stiff and painful.

2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen, argues that it may simply be because breakfast-skippers have been found to be less knowledgeable about nutrition and health?

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Americans are less doubtful when it comes to politics: 73% expect to see a female president in their lifetime.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living even if her children preferred it than in a nursing home.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mind-set said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

But she says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school d

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Employed young men are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.

2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mindset, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

He also says there is less chance of cheating with the in-class variety.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed, and less stressed people made more sensible decisions and communicated better.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Just as it's challenging to smoke while knitting, when hands are holding needles and hooks, there's less snacking and mindless eating out of boredom.

2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

My flight leaves in less than two hours.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket, with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

People who sleep less tend to have higher blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes, weight gain and other problems.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

So if you believe you will live longer, then options become more valuable, and early commitment becomes less attractive.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

So it rains a lot less in Seattle.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

So, I think we're more or less clear what the show will be like.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Some 40% of Americans get less than seven hours of shut-eye on weeknights.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力

The maker of Mountain Dew and Gatorade has been one of the earlier movers in the industry to offer products with reduced levels of unhealthy ingredients—PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The projects included in the study raised $4000 on average, with 30% receiving less than $1000.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Therefore, these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less vulnerable to catching respiratory infections while traveling by air.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far less than the Orb study suggested.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to examine but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less uniform list of living arrangements.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

When a carpet was contaminated, less than 1% of the bacteria were transferred.

2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Alternatively, you may wish to try and surprise your boss with something less common, such as this zinfandel.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

And a lot of interpreters will say one is easier than the other, less stressful.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

As a result, " Black " people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

As careers and vocations become less available during times of recession, adolescents may be especially hard hit.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But less than a month before hand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push the opening back again to 2013.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

But the other half of the name represents another ingredient, less infamous (名声不好的), perhaps, but also strangely potent: the kola nut.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

But to build up my own finances, I need around 20% more in personal savings and 50% less debt.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

But today, on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, let's take a moment to consider a less obvious advantage: the potential for smartphone technology to revolutionize behavioral science.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Click-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Consumers are less concerned about safety in high-tech products than categories like fresh and processed food.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

For example, in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Hogg says that scooping is less of a problem than many think.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

If you're moderately exercising for 150 minutes a week, as the Centers for disease Control and Prevention recommends, or less than that, you're probably not an extreme athlete.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It turns out that the less skilled pianist spends more time looking at her fingers than does the expert who, in contrast, is more likely to be looking at the sheet music, or looking ahead at keys he's not yet playing.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Maybe students who choose less prestigious universities are bound to succeed because they are determined to.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture form

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Mott survey found among the 56 percent of mothers and 34 percent of fathers who discussed parenting on social media, 72 percent of them said sharing made them feel less alone, and nearly as many said sharing helped them worry less and gave them advice fro

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

New electric engines coupled with artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will contribute to a more efficient, integrated transport system that is less polluting and less noisy.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

On the less cute and more scary side there is Actroid F, which is so human-like that some patients may not know the difference.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

So there could be less protein, more sugar and some additives you wouldn't expect, such as caffeine.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Some fish, too, have had limited success vacationing at the lake as less salty lagoons form on the outer edges from hot springs flowing into Lake Natron.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Still, Liu isn't ready to endorse the habit of sleeping less and making up for it later.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Taking photos actually makes people enjoy what they're doing more, not less.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The researchers found that extended screen time makes young people less happy.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The second less obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The sun was considerably less bright back then, so Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

The Washington Post reported on a recent study by Princeton economists, in which college graduates who applied to the most selective schools in the 12th grade were compared to those who applied to slightly less selective schools.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

They might be more willing to offer career help, because your less famous school denotes that, like them, you are also full of energy and perseverance.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

They slept six hours a night or less.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

This idea is based on the principle that lions and other predators are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

This system couldn't care less how often you use it.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

TV might make you less happy, but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young people's average happiness.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

We also do less tangible things like understanding what our readers want.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

When people imagine themselves as advisers and imagine their own choices as belonging to someone else, they feel less tired and rely less on decision shortcuts to make those choices.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Anderson believed that the smarter a child is, the less likely he gets addicted to TV.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项

Because there is less light pollution.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

He thought he would make more money if he gave them less food.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 完形填空 原文

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

I found the pre-holidays a good time to encourage young children to donate less-used things, and it worked.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify those of greater and less importance.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you'll be less likely to bring your work home.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

2015年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Just as in a game of tug-of-war, whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文

Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

People are less satisfied with their lives.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 选项

People, in general, are less warm here and it's hard to make friends.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Studies show that people who volunteer are less likely to develop depression than people who don't.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Teens and younger children are reading a lot less for fun, according to a common sense media report published Monday.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The less a child watches TV, the better he performs at school.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The team transforms the family's long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

There is, however, a second less known type of volcano that doesn't involve mountain building.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

They are less strong than plastic bags.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past less useful.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Those who had done the most boyhood activities were twice as likely to have warm relations with a wide variety of people, five times as likely to be well paid and 16 times less likely to have been unemployed.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Try to work less, or look for a more stress-free job.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 单项选择 情景对话 原文

Warm colors like yellow make food appear more appetizing, while cold colors make us less hungry.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

We made our final offer, which still was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer's bid.

2015年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

When involved in deliberate play activities, children are less concerned with the outcome of their behavior whether they win or lose than with the behavior having fun.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Another approach to getting more done in less time is to rethink how you prioritize your day—in particular how we craft our to-do lists.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But Ashe and others argued that the" threatened" tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservative approaches.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less about the grade itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses critical to their degree program and graduation without incurring a big penalty.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Curriculums - from grammar school to college - should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Even among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe symptoms.

2017年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

2020年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women.

2014年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

his paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image.

2018年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn't stop talking about it.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television .

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I love My Children, I Hate My life", is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fu

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Mies' signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Newspapers are less complete as a result.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat.

2014年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Other birds flying in the up wash experience reduced drag, and spend less energy propelling themselves.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm's board.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.

2017年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to less experienced private sector boards.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape —expend less energy.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

since weight loss is not my goal, it is less important for me to track my weight each week.

2019年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be accepted as impartial judgments.

2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts and Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more" trend.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors attribute to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less experienced managers who are more likely to b

2016年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The landscape is rendered less easily burnable.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The survey they asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to workless than full time or because they had no choice.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They found that the aircraft consumed as much as 15% less fuel.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They'll get less meaningful, less targeted ads.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Think about how tough it is to get together 15 people, much less 50, who all get along perfectly.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations they often talk less at home.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

What Washington does – or doesn't do – to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. (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"

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

    "no less than perfect"

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

    "no less a person than the king himself"

  • 4. (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"

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

    "less interesting"

    "less expensive"

    "less quickly"

  • 2. comparative of little;

    "she walks less than she should"

    "he works less these days"

同义词

adj.较小的,较少的

smallerminorreducedfewer

反义词

adj.较小的,较少的

more

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