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A2asmalleramount(of), or to asmallerdegree: 更少，较小 We musttrytospendlessmoney.我们必须尽量少花一些钱。 Exercise more andeatless.要少吃多运动。 Ieatlesschocolateand fewerbiscuitsthanI used to.巧克力和饼干我比以前吃得少了。 Getting out ofbedinsummeris lessdifficultthaninwinter.在夏天起床不像在冬天那样困难。 less than... used to say thatbehaviourdoes not have the good orattractivecharacteristicthat isstated: 缺少，缺乏Ithinkhe was less thanhonestwith me.我认为他对我不够诚实。 less and less If somethinghappensless and less, itbecomesgraduallysmallerinamountorhappensless often: 越来越少，越来越小He's less and lessabletolookafter himself.他越来越不会照顾自己了。 - ThebusesrunlessfrequentlyonSundays.
- Thesurveyrevealsthat two-thirds ofmarriedwomenearnless thantheirhusbands.
- Thestudentsaccomplishedthetaskin less than tenminutes.
- Do youpaylesstaxif you'reself-employed?
- If youeatthree goodmealsaday, you're lesslikelytosnackonbiscuitsandcrisps.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSmall in number and quantity - beggarly
- below
- bubkes
- certain
- could countsomethingon (the fingers of) one handidiom
- count
- mildness
- mingy
- minimal
- minimally
- modestly
- piffling
- remote
- scantly
- slenderness
- smallness
- speak
- strength
- suggestion
- thin
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Yes, no & not Becoming and making smaller or less 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:… Lesswith 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:… Lesswithout 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:… Lessorfewer? We use the quantifiers less and fewer to talk about quantities, amounts and degree. Less and fewer are comparative words.… Lessandfewerwith a noun We usually use less with uncountable nouns. We use fewer with plural nouns:… Lessandfewerwithof 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:… Lessandfewerwithout 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:… Idiomsmuch/still less no less no less than Thetotalis 30dollars, less the fivedollarsdepositthat youpaid.除去你已经支付的5英镑定金，你应付的总金额为30英镑。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAddition, subtraction, multiplication & division - add
- add (something) up
- addition sign
- additive
- arithmetical
- coefficient
- deduction
- half
- halve
- highest common factor
- long division
- power
- recursion
- roundsomethingdown
- square
- subtraction sign
- subtractive
- table
- takesomethingaway
- treble
See more results » 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:… used toformadjectivesmeaning"without (the thingmentioned)": 没有…的，无…的meaningless无意义的 friendless没有朋友的 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLacking things - bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (forsomething)idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out forsomething
- hole
- lack
- lacking
- minus
- need
- needsomethinglike you need a hole in the headidiom
- needful
- scream
- shy
- starvesomeone/somethingofsomething
- taken
- unaccompanied
- unappeased
- unassuaged
See more results » less| American Dictionarylessadjective,adverb(SMALLER AMOUNT)asmalleramountof something, to asmallerdegree, or not as much;comparative oflittle : We’ve got tospendlessmoney. It was less than amileto thenearestgasstation. She had lessreasontocomplainthan I. Skiingconditionsthisyearare less thanideal(= not good). There wereno less than(= as many as)a thousandpeoplebuyingtickets. lesspreposition(SUBTRACT)$30, less thediscountof 15%, is $25.50. aftersubtractingaparticularnumberoramount: Theaccountwillpayat leastbaserateless 0.25% until 31Marchnextyear. Examplesoflessless 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.From theCambridge English Corpus Such theories still move us from lesser to greater conditions of intelligibility.From theCambridge English Corpus The lesser ones probably opted to seek their fortune in the clothing trade.From theCambridge English Corpus They had some support amongst officials at court, but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners.From theCambridge English Corpus Given women's lesser upper-body strength as compared with men's, a positive evaluation of violence helps to legitimate male domination.From theCambridge English Corpus One is simply moved in one direction or the other in greater or lesser awareness.From theCambridge English Corpus 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.From theCambridge English Corpus To a lesser extent material was supplied from the south.From theCambridge English Corpus On the contrary they are a natural feature of the human condition, present in everyone to a greater or lesser degree.From theCambridge English Corpus There is reasonably full evidence for a number of lesser gentry, yeoman and tradesman estates.From theCambridge English Corpus Under these conditions, there is a greater chance of detecting taxa that are spurious and a lesser chance of detecting taxa that truly exist.From theCambridge English Corpus Student comments evidenced a high deg ree of task and strateg ic knowledge and, to a lesser deg ree, person knowledge.From theCambridge English Corpus Sentences that consist of multiple clauses, or coordinated (and to a lesser extent also subordinated) clauses, might contain multiple topics.From theCambridge English Corpus The result is usually a compromise mixture of three disparate goals that satisfies the various stakeholders to a greater or lesser extent.From theCambridge English Corpus Intrafraction errors are due mainly to the respirator y system and to a lesser extent to cardiac motion.From theCambridge English Corpus 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. |