同义词
反义词
  • adj.
    Less的反义词之:较小的,较少的
    more
词组
  • in less than no time
    (informal)very quickly or soon (非正式)很快,马上,立即
  • less and less
    at a continually decreasing rate 越来越少
  • much (或 still) less
    used to introduce something as being even less likely or suitable than something else already mentioned [表示比刚刚说过的事更不可能或更不适合]更不要说
  • no less
    used to suggest, often ironically, that something is surprising or impressive [用于表示某事令人惊讶或给人留下深刻印象,常为讽刺]竟,居然
  • less than
    Not at all 根本不
  • much less 或 still less
    Certainly not 更何况
英语四级真题
  • 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
英语六级真题
  • 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
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  • 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"