考研英语大纲常考词组短语 much less
释义：
much less 更不用说；不及
例句：
I read much less now than I used to.
我现在看的书比过去少得多。
They are always short of water to drink, much less to bathe in.
他们总是缺饮用水，更不用说洗澡水了。
Maggie had seen him nearly every day at first. Now she saw him much less.
起初玛吉几乎每天都见到他，现在见到他的次数少得多了。
There is much less physical misery than before.
身体上的痛苦比以前少多了。
There's certainly much less discrimination in Scandinavia, and maybe in America, too.
在斯堪的那维亚，歧视当然少得多，也许在美国也是如此。
Today's busy families hardly have time to load the dishwasher, much less clean the doormat.
如今忙碌的家庭几乎没有时间把碗碟放进洗碗机，更不用说擦擦门垫了。
We have trouble discovering those sorts of bodies, much less studying them using just optical telescopes.
我们很难发现这类天体，更不用说用光学望远镜研究它们了。
As is often the case with human beings, many animals sleep a lot when young, but sleep much less when they get older.
和人类一样，许多动物年幼时睡得多，但长大后睡少了很多。
They say that her study doesn't even show that the bacteria would survive in the wild, much less kill massive numbers of plants.
他们说，她的研究甚至没有表明这种细菌能在野外生存，更不用说杀死大量植物了。
The Permian event has attracted much less attention than other mass extinctions because mostly unfamiliar species perished at that time.
二叠纪大灭绝事件比其他大灭绝事件受到的关注要少得多，因为那时灭绝的大多是我们不熟悉的物种。
I certainly didn't understand how they even connected really to chemical reactions, much less other disciplines that I was interested in.
我当然不明白它们是如何与化学反应联系起来的，更不用说我感兴趣的其他学科了。
However, we now know that since oxygen levels were much lower in the Mesozoic than we assumed, there was much less plant life for sauropods to eat than we thought.
然而我们现在知道了，由于中生代空气的含氧量比我们想象的要低得多，所以蜥脚类动物可食用的植物也比我们想象的要少得多。
Green buildings like this aren't necessarily cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy production through fossil fuels.
对投资者来说，像这样的绿色建筑不一定具有成本效益，但它产生的污染确实比通过化石燃料产生能源的过程少得多。
It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought.
在地铁或公共汽车上，一个身强力壮的男学生在冲向最后一个座位时，用胳膊肘把老妇人推到一边，这算不了什么，更不用说他本应站起来给她让座了。
He was much less flashy than his brother.
他远没有他哥哥那么华而不实。
In March and April, the weather is much less predictable.
三、四月份的天气非常不好预测。