| 词汇 | less |
| 释义 | less determiner, pronoun, adverb uk /les/ us /les/ A2 a smaller amount (of), or to a smaller degree: 更少，较小 We must try to spend less money.我们必须尽量少花一些钱。 Exercise more and eat less.要少吃多运动。 less thanI eat less chocolate and fewer biscuits than I used to.巧克力和饼干我比以前吃得少了。 Getting out of bed in summer is less difficult than in winter.在夏天起床不像在冬天那样困难。 less than ... used to say that something does not have the good or attractive characteristic that is stated: 缺少，缺乏 I think he was less than honest with me.我认为他对我不够诚实。 less and less If something happens less and less, it becomes gradually smaller in amount or happens less often: 越来越少，越来越小 He's less and less able to look after himself.他越来越不会照顾自己了。 The buses run less frequently on Sundays.周日公交车发车间隔时间较长。 The survey reveals that two-thirds of married women earn less than their husbands.调查显示2/3的已婚妇女收入比丈夫低。 The students accomplished the task in less than ten minutes.学生们不到10分钟就完成了任务。 Do you pay less tax if you're self-employed?如果你是自雇人士，纳税会减少吗？ If you eat three good meals a day, you're less likely to snack on biscuits and crisps. Small in number and quantity beggarly below bupkis certain could count something on (the fingers of) one handidiom low density measly mild mildness mingy minimal piffling remote scantly slenderly slenderness speak strength suggestion thin GrammarLess We use the quantifier less to talk about reduced quantities, amounts or degree. Less is a comparative word. … Less: position We use less with different classes of words. We use less after verbs but before every other word class: … Less with nouns We use less on its own with singular uncountable nouns: … Less of Whenever we use less before articles (a/an, the), demonstratives (this, that), possessives (my, your) or pronouns (him, it), we need of: … Less without a noun (as a pronoun) We usually leave out the noun after less when the noun is understood: … Less and less We often use less and less to emphasise a decrease in something: … Less or fewer? We use the quantifiers less and fewer to talk about quantities, amounts and degree. Less and fewer are comparative words. … Less and fewer with a noun We usually use less with uncountable nouns. We use fewer with plural nouns: … Less and fewer with of When we use fewer or less before articles (a/an, the), demonstratives (this, that), possessives (my, your) or pronouns (him, them), we need to use of. We use less of with singular nouns and fewer of with plural nouns: … Less and fewer without a noun We can leave out the noun when it is obvious: … Moreorless More or less means ‘mostly’, ‘nearly’ or ‘approximately’. We use it in mid position (between the subject and main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb). It is slightly informal: … Idiomsless is more much/still less no less no less than less preposition uk /les/ us /les/ → minus: 减去，除去（作介词用） The total is 30 dollars, less the five dollars deposit that you paid.除去你已经支付的5英镑定金，你应付的总金额为30英镑。 Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division add add (something) up addition addition sign additive arithmetical half halve highest common factor power quadruply quintuple quotient recursion round something down sextuple square subtract table treble GrammarMoreorless More or less means ‘mostly’, ‘nearly’ or ‘approximately’. We use it in mid position (between the subject and main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb). It is slightly informal: … -less suffix uk / -ləs//-lɪs/ us / -ləs//-lɪs/ used to form adjectives meaning "without (the thing mentioned)": 没有…的，无…的 meaningless无意义的 friendless没有朋友的 Lacking things bankrupt bankruptcy be hard up (for something)idiom bereft chronic disease hour if it wasn't/weren't forphrase in someone's hour of needidiom inappeasable lack minus scrape scrape the bottom of the barrelidiom scream scream (out) for somethingidiom shortage skimpily starve starve someone/something of something starved less | American Dictionaryless adjective, adverb us/les/ lessadjective, adverb (SMALLER AMOUNT)a smaller amount of something, to a smaller degree, or not as much; comparative oflittle : We’ve got to spend less money. It was less than a mile to the nearest gas station. She had less reason to complain than I. Skiing conditions this year are less than ideal (= not good). There were no less than (= as many as) a thousand people buying tickets. Idiomless and less less preposition us/les/ lesspreposition (SUBTRACT)minus ; after subtracting: $30, less the discount of 15%, is $25.50. less | Business Englishless preposition uk /les/us after subtracting a particular number or amount: The account will pay at least base rate less 0.25% until 31 March next year. Examples of lessless One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining, and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences. Such theories still move us from lesser to greater conditions of intelligibility. They had some support amongst officials at court, but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners. Given women's lesser upper-body strength as compared with men's, a positive evaluation of violence helps to legitimate male domination. One is simply moved in one direction or the other in greater or lesser awareness. Clearly, as with the existing" subjective" and" departmental" analyses so the clinical analysis of expenditure may be provided in greater or lesser degrees of details. To a lesser extent material was supplied from the south. On the contrary they are a natural feature of the human condition, present in everyone to a greater or lesser degree. There is reasonably full evidence for a number of lesser gentry, yeoman and tradesman estates. Under these conditions, there is a greater chance of detecting taxa that are spurious and a lesser chance of detecting taxa that truly exist. Student comments evidenced a high deg ree of task and strateg ic knowledge and, to a lesser deg ree, person knowledge. Sentences that consist of multiple clauses, or coordinated (and to a lesser extent also subordinated) clauses, might contain multiple topics. The result is usually a compromise mixture of three disparate goals that satisfies the various stakeholders to a greater or lesser extent. Intrafraction errors are due mainly to the respirator y system and to a lesser extent to cardiac motion. A relative decrease in expenditures on nondurables reflects the lesser importance of basic goods. See all examples of less These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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