Lesser

(adj.) smaller in size or amount or value; 'the lesser powers of Europe'; 'the lesser anteater' .

(adj.) of less size or importance; 'the lesser anteater'; 'the lesser of two evils' .

埃德加整理

• A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It receives the waters of the lesser sea above it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They were popularly supposed to inhabit the lesser moon, from which they descended upon Barsoom at long intervals. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Some lesser points may be more conveniently noticed in this place. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last, and by the united exertions of the entire family Jo's hair was got up and her dress on. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• True, but that may be affection, which is a lesser passion than love. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• One of the lesser breed should feel honoured that a member of the holy race that was born to inherit life eternal should deign even to notice him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• By the vivacity of the idea we interest the fancy, and produce, though in a lesser degree, the same pleasure, which arises from a moderate passion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Behind us we left the stricken city in the fierce and brutal clutches of some forty thousand green warriors of the lesser hordes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The First Born of Barsoom, he explained, are the race of black men of which I am a Dator, or, as the lesser Barsoomians would say, Prince. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Lesser matters of style may be remarked. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Barnacle Junior, however, was announced as a lesser star, yet visible above the office horizon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The pursuit of the lesser fortune was openly relinquished for that of the greater. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• These cases serve to show on what slight and mysterious causes the lesser or greater fertility of a species sometimes depends. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Evidently she was embarrassed at having been detected in the act of staring at a lesser creature, I thought. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is possible that in the past there have been periods of greater and lesser intensity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Even now she may be a captive upon the lesser moon. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The great remembrance by which that time is marked in my mind, seems to have swallowed up all lesser recollections, and to exist alone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There is evidently a great deal at stake which must hinge to a greater or lesser extent upon the absolute correctness of this comparison. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Oh, no; those whom you laid low are lesser therns; but of the same cruel and hateful race. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Among mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felidae and Canidae. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In that case we may fairly hope that a repetition of the dose will lead, in a greater or lesser degree, to a repetition of the result. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We were then presented to Mors Kajak, Jed of lesser Helium, and father of Dejah Thoris. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• No baulking the issue, no listening to the lesser voices. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That crime has been the origin of every lesser one, and of all his present discontents. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The curates, herding together after their manner, made a constellation of three lesser planets. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Each community has its own jed and lesser chieftains, but all are under the rule of Tal Hajus, Jeddak of Thark. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It is an honour to a lesser creature to be a slave among us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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