The leaner the dog, the fatter the flea

狗越瘦,跳蚤越肥

Approach on Consititution of Leaner-centered Managing Mode in Distance and Open Education

构建以学习为中心的远程开放教育管理机制

The Teacher Efficacy of Performing leaner-centered Teaching, Teacher Belief, and School Structure at the Institute of Technology in Taiwan

技专院校组织结构与老师实施学生导向教学之信念和效能相关研究-LISREL模型结构性分析

She is now leaner than formerly.

她现在比以前更瘦。

Modern breeds of pigs such as the Landrace have been bred to give leaner meat. They also grow faster. They can gain half a kilogramme in weight a day. Pigs also breed rapidly. Sows can produce a litter of twelve piglets at a time.

现代猪种(如兰特雷斯)，饲养的目的是用来供应瘦肉。它们长得也较快，1天可以增加体重半公斤。猪繁殖也快，母猪一窝能产12头小猪。

||1:Election years are not often the best times for stockmarket investors.||2:Over the past 90 years shares included in the S&P 500, an index of America’s biggest firms, have returned an average of about 8.5% a year.||3:The twelve months leading up to each of the 22 presidential elections in that time have been leaner affairs, returning just 6%.||4:Investors tend not to care whether the victorious candidate is Democratic or Republican, but they do like familiarity—returns are a shade higher in years when incumbents are returned to office.||5:The democratic cycle, for all its virtues, tends to bring with it a dose of uncertainty—first about who will win and then about what that victor will do.||6:And uncertainty tends to make financiers nervous.

||1:对于股市投资者来说，选举年通常不是最好的时机。||2:在过去的90年里，包括标普500(美国最大公司的指数)在内的股票平均年回报率约为8.5%。||3:在这22届总统选举之前的12个月里，每一届的选举都是比较轻松的，回报率只有6%。||4:投资者并不关心获胜的候选人是民主党人还是共和党人，但他们确实喜欢这种“惯例”——即当现任者重掌大权时，回报率会略微高一些。||5:民主党的循环虽优点多多，但往往会带来一些不确定因素——首先是谁会赢，其次是赢了的那个人接下来会做什么。||6:不确定性往往会让金融家们感到紧张。

||1:All this appeals to right-wing politicians.||2:But the corollary of better performance is higher pay.||3:The British government’s chief operating officer announced this week that he is leaving for a lucrative commercial job.||4:Singapore, which runs a far leaner government than America, pays its best people 2m a year.||5:No Republican congressman would tolerate that, which is foolish.||6:The cost of higher salaries is offset by saving money on costly consultants to mop up failing projects.

||1:这一切都吸引了右翼政客。||2:但更好成绩的必然结果是更高的薪水。||3:英国政府的首席营运官在这个星期宣布，他将要胜任一份利润丰厚的商务工作。||4:新加坡，其运行比美国更为精简的政府，付给其最佳胜任者200万美元一年的薪酬。||5:没有共和党议员能够容忍这一点，他们认为这是愚蠢的想法。||6:更高的工资成本是由节约资金成本聘请高昂费用的顾问以扫荡失败的项目而抵消的。

Obama Sets Plan for ’Leaner ’ Military

奥巴马制定国防新战略

The crusade for leaner , more focused companies, which began in the 1980s, ran out of steam after the turn of the century.

上世纪美国刮起了一场主要集中于企业的精简运动，从80年代一直持续到世纪末。

So the employees may have been leaner and fitter, but it is possible that workplace pressure to produce more meant greater stress.

所以员工们或许一直很瘦且健康，但是有可能是公司增产的压力给了他们更大的工作压力。

However, in leaner times having a daughter is a safer bet.

“然而在物资匮乏年代，生女孩是较安全赌注”。

“They can help reduce cellulite and slim and tone your thighs and get you that much closer to having longer, leaner looking legs. ”

“它们可以帮你减掉臀部和腿部的脂肪，使你的大腿变得纤细而有形，从而让你离拥有一双长而纤细的腿的梦想越来越近。”

Gregory: This reorganization and the new company policies will make us leaner and meaner.

Gregory：这次重组加上新的公司章程将使我们减轻负担，提高效率。

The job cuts will make it leaner but also hurt morale.

裁员能够使花旗瘦身，但也会打击士气。

Contractors claim they can operate faster and leaner once they’re freed of NASA bureaucracy.

承包商们宣称一旦摆脱宇航局的官僚主义他们能运营得更快更简洁。

In addition, it could give new impetus to Franco-British defense cooperation, a trend that makes sense in an era of leaner defense budgets.

除此之外，美国这么做还可以促进英法结成防御协作关系，而这样的协作关系在一个互相依存的防务预算关系之中，是大势所趋。

This helped transform them from creaky relics of Soviet-style central planning to leaner businesses with a sharper commercial focus.

此举把这些银行从摇摇欲坠的苏式中央计划经济残留，改造为更精简、更专注于商业业务的企业。

The companies that survived the emerging market crises of the past 10 years have emerged leaner , meaner and with diversified portfolios.

从过去10年新兴市场危机中挺过来的企业，如今已变得更加精简、更为出色，拥有多样化的投资组合。

Most firms have been organising their logistics to make themselves leaner .

大多数公司已经通过对物流的精心组织而使自己变得更短小精悍。

The sperm with the Y chromosome were leaner and faster and could swim down to the bottom of the tube more efficiently.

带有X染色体的精子体型更纤细、游速更高，能够更快地游到试管底部。

But then producers began to shift strategy, moving away from extravaganzas towards leaner musicals and straight plays for grown-ups.

但编剧们开始转变战略，从收益较低的音乐剧这种娱乐性节目转向成年人观赏的戏剧。

But the tougher ones will emerge leaner and stronger, and ready to seize the opportunities that a gradual recovery will offer.

但那些存活下来的公司将更加强大，更加具有竞争力，而且时刻准备着抓住经济复苏带来的机遇。

But the smaller, leaner G. M. of today is no more than a middle-of-the-pack company in terms of sales and revenue.

但是今天“更小更瘦”的通用在销售量及收益上只相当于一个中型企业。

But this picture is rapidly changing. With high interest costs and a scarcity of capital, client groups are demanding leaner designs.

但现在这种状况正在迅速改变，因为高利率以及资金的缺乏，现在大多业主更倾向于节约型设计。

Of course, a leaner body can boost your confidence and help you feel more attractive, which could also improve your sex life.

当然，精壮的身体可以增强你的自信，让你感觉更富魅力，另外，对你的性生活也会大有裨益。

Second, the city can no longer afford itself. In place of the old must come a new, leaner city.

第二，底特律再也不能承受之前的那个样子，一个新的，更为精简的城市必须替代原来那个旧的城市。

Animals given ursolic acid also became leaner and had lower blood levels of glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides.

动物服用熊果酸后体形变瘦，血糖、血液胆固醇和甘油三酯水平降低。

But in leaner times producers benefit from certain demand.

而在不景气时期，稳定的需求对生产商有利。

Think longer, leaner wings and a more streamlined body.

飞机应该有更长、更细的翅膀，流线型的机体。

Analysts and officials agree that a leaner market will help redirect the focus to where it belongs -- on the art itself.

分析人士和拍卖行管理人员一致认为，市场萎缩，有助于将人们注意力重新引回艺术品本身。