He speaks in concepts rather than specifics.

他讲话时尽用抽象概念,不谈具体。

I could not do otherwise than laugh.

我不能不笑。

There are more headaches for me than for you.

让我伤脑筋比你多。

It is better to wear out than rust out.

与其懒死, 不如累死。

Contractions are much more common in speech than in writing.

缩略词在口语里比在书写中常见得多。

It is easier to read by daylight than by lamplight.

在日光下读书比在灯光下读书舒适。

Harriet felt more estranged from her daughter than ever.

哈丽特感到与女儿关系比以往任何时候都疏远。

Better unchaste than humourless, better dead than a dead weight .

没趣不如淫荡，叫人讨厌不如溘然长逝。

We prefer you to work voluntarily rather than by coercion.

我们愿你工作出于自愿,不是被迫。

More of the land is planted to cabbages than to tomatoes.

种白菜地比种西红柿多。

The film version requires greater suspension of disbelief than the book.

与原书比起来，电影版需要带给观众更多悬念。

The firm has less money and fewer staff than last year.

公司资金和人员都比去年少了。

I think she did it more in sorrow than in anger.

我觉得她这样做更多是出于悲哀不是愤恨。

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

有欲望动等于把婴儿扼杀在摇篮之中。

A fur coat has more utility in winter than in autumn.

毛皮外衣在冬天比在秋天更有用。

We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever.

我们断定，他们这是正在策划什么比往常更加恶毒主意。

Greater benefits can be achieved through diplomatic channels than by acts of aggression.

通过外交渠道要比侵略方式获得更大利益。

In troublous times people grow intoxicated there more on words than on wine.

在某些会里，从来不超过八个或十个人，并且老是原来那几个。

There is more methane,ethane, isobutane and isopentane in shaly limestone than in marlite.

泥灰岩比纯灰岩所产气体中含有更多甲烷、乙烷、异丁烷和异戊烷。

One of the interrogators pretended to be acting more in sorrow than in anger.

其中一位质者假装表现得很惋惜不是气愤。