greater是什么意思？

The greater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old.

Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater speed

As a society we might want to rethink the time and money spent on education, so that these resources can benefit a greater percentage of the population.

The advantages, not surprisingly, were greater for African Americans, who are more likely to develop high blood pressure than other ethnic groups, and for the elderly, since blood vessels stiffen with age, which can lead to higher blood pressure.

It doesn't mean greater job security for the employed.

The elderly are in greater danger of tumor growth

Mr Jobs had a reputation as a control freak （怪人）, and his critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and inflexible, in the name of greater ease of use.

A greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams.

Several recent studies have found that being randomly (随机地) assigned to a roommate of another race can lead to increased tolerance but also to a greater likelihood (可能性)of conflict.

A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground.

That way, you see and hear more: and your mind responds gratefully to the greater amount of wildness in your life

Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions.

He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities

A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light, and therefore, might serve as our passports to the past.

000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo.

And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.

But as the work became more difficult, the students with a growth mind-set showed greater persistence.

But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

Students with such a growth mind-set were destined for greater academic success and were quite likely to outperform their counterparts.

Technological innovation places greater value on agility.

What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were there.

While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.

"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

A similar but reversed pattern was found for the activities associated with greater well-being.

As countries continue setting goals of reducing emissions, greater steps need to be taken to have a noticeable effect on the surrounding environment.

At the time, it became clear that the newly reunified Berlin would need a modern airport with far greater capacity than its existing airports.

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

But the snail has given the project greater urgency.

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.

Future farms will likely experience a greater deal of autonomy as robots take up more and more farm work efficiently.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks,"says researcher Vladimir Carli.

Some fields, though, have a greater tendency for it.

The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.

The data was slightly complicated by the fact that there was a tendency for kids who were social in the real world to also use more online communication, but by bracketing out different cases it became clear that the real-world sociality component correla

The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em

The robot who rescues Spooner's life in I, Robot follows Asimov's zeroth larobots cannot harm humanity as opposed to individual humans or allow humanity to come to harm—an expansion of the first law that allows robots to determine what's in the greater go

These days, though, the divide between rich and poor is greater than it has ever been.

Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.