英语词汇“less”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	less
释义	less I. \ˈles\ adjective (less·er \ˈlesə(r)\ ; least \ˈlēst\) Etymology: Middle English lasse, las, less, lesse, partly from Old English lǣs , adverb & noun and partly from lǣssa, adjective; akin to Old Saxon & Old Frisian lēs less, Middle High German lin tepid, faint, Old High German bilinnan to cease, Old Norse linr soft, gentle, weak, linna to cease, læ fraud, treason, bane, Gothic aflinnan to go away, Middle Irish lēine shirt, līan soft, Greek liazesthai to bend, recoil, sink, limos hunger, liaros warm, soft, gentle, Lithuanian liesas thin 1. : of a more limited number : fewer < less operating miles of railway track — New York Times > < less than two years later — C.S.Forester > < the subcommittee shall consist of not less than three nor more than five members > < the more watch officers, the less watches — Wirt Williams > < less family ties than a wild thing in the woods — H.L.Mencken > 2. a. : of humbler rank : lowlier < no less a person than Winston Churchill — A.A.Hill > b. obsolete : of a lower quality : inferior < hope to joy is little less in joy than hope enjoyed — Shakespeare > 3. archaic : younger or of diminished magnitude : minor < Dr. Franklin the less — T.B.Macaulay > < the tyrant of less Asia — Josuah Sylvester > < barons … upward we call the greater nobility, the others beneath them the less nobility — John Selden > 4. a. : of reduced size, extent, or degree : smaller, slighter < the much less subordination of the individual to the social community than of the cell or organ to the animal body — Julian Huxley > b. : more limited in quantity or amount < after 1764 Adams devoted even less time than formerly to making a living — C.L.Becker > II. adverb Etymology: Middle English lesse, lasse, less, from Old English lǣs 1. : to a lesser extent or degree < doubtful cases … are bound to come up in regard to the less investigated languages — A.L.Kroeber > < was less angry than perplexed — Jean Stafford > < coccinellids … were common during April and May and less so in June — Journal of Economic Entomology > < the more they were exposed to the campaign … the less voters changed their positions — R.M.Goldman > < Italian is no less a mother tongue for her than English — Irving Kolodin > 2. : more emphatically not < they were not attacking the churches, still less religion as such — Elmer Davis > • - less than III. preposition Etymology: Middle English las, lesse, from Old English lǣs, preposition, adverb, & noun 1. : diminished by : with the subtraction of : minus < the weight so found, less the weight of the sieve, shall be considered to be the drained weight — Definitions & Standards for Food > 2. : with the exception of : excluding < appeared originally, less some stitchwork, in the New Yorker — John Lardner > IV. noun (plural less) Etymology: Middle English lesse, lasse, from Old English lǣsse (from lǣssa, adjective), lǣs 1. a. : a smaller portion or quantity < no less than 97 million dollars has been added — J.B.Conant > < the radio towers were askew and less of them protruded above the snow — Geographical School Bulletin > b. : something not as consequential or elaborate < people have been sent to Siberia for less — Time > < hewed to the current architectural concept that “less is more” > 2. : something inferior to that with which it is compared < of two evils choose the less > 3. obsolete : one that is of inferior rank < nemesis … doth raze the great and raise the less — Samuel Daniel > V. pronoun Etymology: Middle English lesse, lasse, pron. & adjective, from Old English lǣsse (from lǣssa, adjective) 1. : something smaller or below average < can not honorably do less > 2. plural in construction : fewer persons or things < less were available than he had hoped > VI. conjunction Etymology: Middle English, from earlier lasse than, lesse than, from lasse, lesse (adverb) + than now dialect : unless
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