less-than operation

基本解释

After a less-than-optimal operation, children sometimes experience a reduced capacity to perform physical activities and may experience blood clotting and ventricle arrhythmias.
在接受了不太理想的手术之后，孩子们常常出现身体活动能力下降，血液凝结，心律不齐等问题。
Conclusions In preterm neonates with low weight, indwelling gastric tube via mouse-stomach has higher successful rate, fewer complications and less operation time than via nose-stomach.
结论低体重早产儿经口留置胃管比经鼻留置胃管一次插管成功率高，操作时间短，并发症少。
As a proportion of gross domestic product, total government spending in Australia is the third lowest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and slightly less than in the US.
按照占国内生产总值的比例计算，澳大利亚政府支出总额在经合组织中排倒数第三，比美国略低。

This sort of posturing is much less effective than co-operation might prove to be.
ECONOMIST: America’s world
Popular dislike of the war obliged the country's rulers to be less helpful than America would have liked—though the true extent of Saudi co-operation, like that of other Arab countries, remains murky.
ECONOMIST: America and the Gulf: Ciao, Saudi The