I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing.

我不认为有什么东西会比啥都不是还不是。

International trade (exports minus imports) contributed a little less than nothing to the country's growth in the first half of this year.

在今年的上半年，国际贸易(出口减去进口)，对国家经济增长贡献很小。

When their parents do not have a worthwhile career, education, or qualifications, the children look upon their parents as having less than nothing.

“当父母没有值得干的工作，学历或资历时候，孩子就会用“鸡肋”的眼光来打量父母。”

"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter, "it's very easy to take more than nothing."

“你的意思是你不能少拿，”帽商说，“多拿比不拿容易。”

It was nothing less than a disaster.

这简直就是一场灾难。

The victory was nothing less than a miracle.

这场胜利是个不折不扣的奇迹。

It takes less than an hour and costs the family nothing.

这只需要不到一个小时的时间，而且不需要花费任何费用。

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

如果你有钱的话，这种服务绝对是一流的。

Giving small children sweet drinks or bottles of fake juice all day long is nothing less than child abuse.

整天给小孩子喝甜饮料或假果汁简直就是虐待儿童。

And nothing could be less fair than that.

然而实际上，没有什么会比这更不公平的了。

Their professed aim is nothing less than the subversion of Western society by "flower power" and force of example.

他们声称的目标只不过是通过“权力归花的信仰”和榜样的力量来颠覆西方社会。

And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.

而这一点不仅仅是对于你们的生活和你们的未来显得很重要，你们经受教育之后能取得的成就同样可以决定这个国家的未来。

But there is nothing voters like less than strife among leaders.

但是选民们最喜欢领导人之间的争斗了。

Staying in a hospital is nothing less than solitary confinement.

呆在医院里，比单身监禁强不了多少。

To think that our television is in the hands of these time-servers is nothing less than a tragedy.

想想看，我们的电视掌控在这些时间服务器手中，这无异于悲剧。

His project is nothing less than an attempt to reverse engineer the relevant part of the brain.

他的计划可以说正是一种逆向构造大脑相关部分的尝试。

As they drew closer, I could see that the men's faces were taut with anger, while the women looked nothing less than possessed.

随着他们越来越近，我看见男人们的脸都因而愤怒而紧绷着，而女人们看上去则没有那么疯狂。

That a piece of paper of no intrinsic value should pass for good money the world over is nothing less than a secular miracle.

一张没有内在价值的纸片竟然被全世界奉为优等货币，这简直是这个世俗世界的一个奇迹。

What is at issue here is nothing less than remaking the culture of an entire industry.

其实这里所讨论的问题，说到底还是要重塑该行业的文化。

He reckons it represents nothing less than the earliest record of the human imagination.

岩画无关其他，那只是人类想象力最早的记录而已。

That strikes some Americans as nothing less than blackmail.

这对一些美国人来说，简直就是讹诈。

Combating climate change called less costly than doing nothing.

遏制气候变化比不作为的代价要小。

But the ultimate aim is to create nothing less than a social network for charity.

不过，最终目标是为慈善基金创建一个真正的社会网络。

Some people talk of marriage as a safe haven, heaven even, but for me it has turned out to be nothing less than purgatory here on earth.

有的人说婚姻是安全的避难所，甚至说是天堂，但对于我来说，它简直是地球上的炼狱。

This is nothing less than the creation of another bubble.

这不过是在制造另一场泡沫而已。