前者的

The karabiner's screw lock must be tightly screwed to prevent it from opening accidentally. This latter type of connection is more shock-absorbent than the conventional one.

后面这种连接方式比常规具有更好的冲击吸收性，后者比前者更牢固。

Councils over which the pope presides through his legates are not identified with himself in the same degree as the former.

议会而教宗主持通过他的legates没有确定与自己在同一程度，因为前者。

Two important directions in the development of proton linacs are high current proton linacs (mainly applied in nuclear power field) and compact proton linacs.

当前质子直线加速器发展的两个重要方向是强流质子直线加速器和小型质子直线加速器。前者主要用于核能领域，后者主要用于质子治疗。

The former minimises the US debt burden and transfers it to foreigners.

前者将减少美国人的债务负担，并将这种负担转加给外国人。

The way to solve this problem includes antibody- purified and preparation of monoclonal antibody.

要解决这个问题可以通过纯化抗体和制备相应的单克隆抗体，但前者因费时费力。

Odds are, you won't like what it is

与前者不同的是，你不会喜欢它

The former is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia and the latter is restricted to Java and Sumatra of Indonesia.

前者广泛分布于亚洲热带与亚热带地区；后者则只局限于印度尼西亚的爪哇与苏门答腊。

Molybdenum trioxides( MoO3) usually have three forms: orthorhombic,hexagonal and monoclinic.

三氧化钼(MoO3)以三种常见的物相存在：正交相、六方相和单斜相，前者为热力学稳定相，后两者为热力学介稳相。

Owning a car might be preferable to owning a bicycle , but the problems associated with owning the former far outweigh tose of the latter .

与拥有一辆自行车相比，人们更愿意拥有一辆汽车，但拥有后者涉及的问题远远超过前者。

Comparing the working days of ships, it shows that there is no significant difference between fishing vessels joining the fishing off projects and the ones did not. However, the working days of the fishing vessels joining the fishing off project are 53 days more than the ones did not from 20 to 30 tonnages.

三、比较未申领与申领休渔奖励之渔船的作业天数，除了20~30吨级渔船有显著差异外（前者较后者多53天），其余船吨级别无显著差异；但在渔获量和渔业收入方面，除70~80吨级渔船外，未休渔渔船比休渔者多或相近。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。