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It has reached a state of interrelations more than even with all its communicative possibilities.

在今天的时代背景下，因为建筑物对内对外的交流和联系被强调，与其说建筑物是个物体，还不如说是一种联系。

Engine powered lawnmowers cause millions of accidents annually, but accidents caused by reel mowers are far less frequent, and usually much less severe.

发动机动力lawnmowers事业以百万计的意外，每年，但意外所造成的卷筒割草机远不如频繁，通常少得多严重。

And speaking of expensive nonessentials, if you know what's good for you, you didn't spend any money on birthday presents.

再说了你与其想着送件昂贵的奢侈品，还不如想点有意义的，别在生日礼物上浪费钱。

There's a famous graph in industrial psychology that depicts that under very low levels of stress for experienced folks, performance isn't as great as it is when there's a modest level of stress.

工业心理学上有个著名的曲线，有经验的人们在压力较低时，其表现不如压力适当时来得出色。

But unlike, say, Ratatouille, High School Musical has no double-entendres, visionary artistry or adult appeal.

不过不想其它的一些电影，不如Ratatouille，High School Musical没有任何双关语，幻想的艺术，大人感情。

However, upon Second Thoughts, I took it away, and wrapping all this in a Piece of Canvas, I began to think of making another Raft, but while I was preparing this, I found the Sky over-cast, and the Wind began to rise, and in a Quarter of an Hour it blew a fresh Gale from the Shore; it presently occur'd to me, that it was in vain to pretend to make a Raft with the Wind off Shore, and that it was my Business to be gone before the Tide of Flood began, otherwise I might not be able to reach the Shore at all: Accordingly I let my self down into the Water, and swam cross the Channel, which lay between the Ship and the Sands, and even that with Difficulty enough, partly with the Weight of the Things I had about me, and partly the Roughness of the Water, for the Wind rose very hastily, and before it was quite high Water, it blew a Storm.

可是，再一想，我还是把钱拿走了。我一边把钱用一块帆布包好，一边考虑再做一只木排，正当我在做木排时，发现天空乌云密布，风也刮得紧起来。不到一刻钟，变成一股狂风从岸上刮来。我马上意识到，风从岸上刮来，做木排就毫无用处了，还不如乘潮水还未上涨，赶快离开，要不可能根本回不到岸上去了。于是我立刻跳下水，游过船和沙滩之间那片狭长的水湾。这一次，由于带的东西太重，再加上风势越刮越强劲，我游得很吃力。当潮水上涨不久后，海面上已刮起了风暴了。

The price could be four more years of underperformance.

其间的代价可能将是又是四年的不如人意。

D 根据第一段倒数第二句"Binet's early test was taken to the United States by a Stanford University psychologist, Lewis Terman, whose version came to be called the Stanford-Binet test"可知,选项 D

选项 A&加尔顿测试是比内测试的基础&，选项 B&通常认为词汇技能微不足道&，选项 C&斯坦福—比内测试不如比内测试传统&的意思均与文章不一致。

I also have a pet dog and his name is Moe. He is a Shetland sheepdog who thinks that he owns my couch and my bed. He keeps me very busy all day long.

平时，我很喜欢在假期到不同的地方去旅游，所谓「读万卷书不如走万里路」，如果大家有时间的话，不妨和爸爸妈妈到其他地方走一走，藉此开阔自己的视野和增长见识。

Close March express time, collect contribution as what stand on fourdrinier wire one day.

近三月的发表时间，不如站长网上一日的收录功劳。

Plunder melds and run with this jewel!

掠夺melds和运行与此宝石！

My dream is to be a crazy growing tree and extend at the edge between the city and the forest.

此刻，也许正是在通往天国的路上，我体验着这白色的晕旋。