less than

不到少于低于小于

less than 的定义

  1. Not at all or hardly at all. For example, He had a less than favorable view of the matter, or She had a less than adequate grasp of the subject. This expression uses less in the sense of “a smaller quantity, number, or extent than is implied,” a usage dating from about a.d. 1000. The same sense appears in less than no time, a hyperbolic term for a very short time that dates from about 1800.

less than 近义词

less than

等同于 beneath

更多less than例句

  1. Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.
  2. Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
  3. For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
  4. No one wants to align with less freedom at a time like this.
  5. The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.
  6. In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
  7. He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
  8. He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!
  9. One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
  10. With childlike confidence he follows the advice of some more or less honest dealer.