lesser 是什么意思
adj. 较少的；次要的；更小的
lesser 中文词源
lesser 较少的，次要的
less,用于little的比较级，-er,比较级后缀。
英语词源
lesser (adj.)early 13c., a double comparative, from less + -er (2). Johnson calls it "a barbarous corruption of less, formed by the vulgar from the habit of terminating comparatives in -er
lesser 权威例句
- 1. People voted for him as the lesser of two evils.
- 人们投票支持他只不过是两害相权取其轻罢了。
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- 2. They pleaded guilty to lesser charges of criminal damage.
- 他们承认了刑事毁坏的较轻罪名。
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- 3. The two discs also contain two of Britten's lesser-known song-cycles.
- 这两张唱片还包含了布里顿两首不甚知名的声乐套曲。
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- 4. people of lesser importance
- 次要人物
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- 5. The more obvious potential allies are Ireland, Denmark and, to a lesser degree, the Netherlands.
- 最可能成为盟国的有爱尔兰和丹麦，放宽些还可以把荷兰算上。
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lesser 造句
- 1. Certainly this makes moisture and rot lesser problems!
- 当然这样就较少地造成潮湿和腐烂问题。
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- 2. While some states, for example, have 12-person juries, other states have lesser numbers for certain types of trial.
- 例如，有些州的陪审团由12人组成，而另一些州在某些类型的审判中使用的陪审团人数较少。
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- 3. For example, now that I want to write an average of a new article a day, I need to learn to maintain/increase the same quality of writing as before, while writing in lesser time.
- 例如，现在我想要平均每天写一篇新文章，我需要像以前一样学会保持/增加同样的写作质量，却用较少的时间写作。
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- 4. Boutique investment banks have so far coped with the credit crisis better than big players thanks to a more robust capital base and lesser involvement in the subprime mortgages market.
- 由于资本基础更为强劲和在次优抵押贷款市场涉足较少,小型专业投资银行与大型机构相比迄今更好地应对了信贷危机.
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- 5. In this way testers can drive different end-to-end scenarios and have lesser dependencies on possible issues at third party locations.
- 以这种方式，测试员就能推动不同的端到端方案，而且较少受到第三方位置的可能问题的影响。
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- 6. Because we see the second request as a lesser burden—and therefore a favor to us—we are likely to give in out of perceived obligation.
- 因为我们把第二个请求看成较小的负担，于我们是个恩惠，所以我们很有可能出于意识到的责任而屈服。
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- 7. In a 110-page manual he gives his patients, he has them select a nightmare they want to transform into a dream of lesser intensity.
- 在他给病人的一本110页的手册中，他让他们选择一个他们想要将其转化成不那么紧张的梦境的噩梦。
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- 8. Deep in the night, awakened by a particularly vivid nightmare after a string of lesser ones, she pads down the hall to my room and comes around to my side of the bed.
- 在夜深时分，她会在经历一连串印象较淡的梦魇后被一个特别清晰的噩梦惊醒，蹑手蹑脚地顺着走廊进入我的房间，来到我的床前。
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- 9. I cannot imagine what our lives would have looked like if we had chosen a lesser master.
- 我无法想像如果我选择了一个小的主人我的生活将会是什么样的。
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- 10. There are certain kinds of people who allow themselves lesser leisure time than others.
- 有某几种人是会把自己的休闲时间压缩得比别人少的。
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- 11. And with its growing economic and military might, Han China may soon be able to impose its will on some of these "lesser" cultures, should it desire.
- 随着其经济和军事实力的日益增长，汉族中国可能很快就能将其意志强加给一些“较弱小的”文化，如果它想这么做的话。
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- 12. If they ask her to forego an opportunity in a far away city, for example, she will take a lesser job in her hometown to be close to her family.
- 例如，如果父母要她放弃在一个在遥远城市工作的机会，她会在离家较近的家乡找一份较小的工作。
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- 13. If there are two women in the painting, the disabled one is named the more beautiful, as if Maillol wishes to contrast an aesthetic, fragmentary, and broken beauty to a lesser, intact beauty.
- 如果这幅画中画的是两个女人，残缺的那个就是更美的代表，似乎马约尔希望对美学上残缺的、破裂的美和次级的、完整的美进行对比。
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- 14. But before you face the formidable challenge of thinking like your interviewer and her CEO, try taking on the perspective of a lesser intellect: a fly on the wall.
- 像你的面试官或其CEO一样思考，这是一个艰难的挑战。面对它之前，先试一试这个不太挑战智商的：墙上的一只苍蝇。
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- 15. Last year he got nominated for his lesser role in Invictus when he should have been nominated for The Informant.
- 去年，他被提名是因为成事在人中的一个配角。 其实去年，他更应该因告密者而被提名。
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- 16. Olsen says the stars share the motion of gas streams near the Large Magellanic Cloud, suggesting that the galaxy tore not only stars but also gas from its lesser neighbor.
- 奥尔森说，这些恒星的运动跟大麦哲伦星云附近的气体流相同，说明该星系不仅从较小的相邻星系中掠走了恒星，而且还掠去了气体。
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- 17. The "lesser of two evils" technique tries to convince us of an idea or proposal by presenting it as the least offensive option.
- 两害之轻这种手段将一种想法或者提议展示为最不令人厌恶的选择而试图使我们接受它。
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- 18. To such lofty examples I should like to add a lesser one; but it will have some relation to the others, and I should like it to suffice for all similar cases: and this is Hiero of Syracuse.
- 举了这么多高不可攀的例子，我应该再举一个稍微实际点的例子；不过他会和其他例子有某种联系，而且我希望它能够适用于所有类似的情况：这就是锡拉库萨的希罗。
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- 19. When a star explodes in a lesser galaxy, this raw material for life shoots out into space at millions of miles an hour and is lost.
- 较小星系中的恒星爆炸时，这些生命的原料就会以每小时数百万公里的速度射入太空，然后消失。
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- 20. When a star explodes in a lesser galaxy, this raw material for life shoots out into space at millions of miles an hour and is lost.
- 较小星系中的恒星爆炸时，这些生命的原料就会以每小时数百万公里的速度射入太空，然后消失。
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