By comparison with modern whales, this is medium-size. Not really large.

与现代的鲸相比，这是中等体型。并不算很大。

By comparison with the narrow, compartmentalized days of fathers, the comparatively lightweight work of mothers seemed expansive.

与父亲们所遭受的狭隘的、封闭的日子相比，母亲们所承担的相对较轻的工作显得更加宽泛一些。

He was content, by comparison with his active agonizing in Paris.

与他在巴黎的积极痛苦相比， 他很满足。

The evening was clear, dry, and remarkably cold by comparison with the daytime weather.

与白天的天气相比，傍晚晴朗、干燥，而且异常寒冷。

Its Navy is quite small by comparison, with no aircraft carriers and only 5 submarines.

相比之下，它的海军规模相当小， 没有航空母舰， 只有 5 艘潜艇。

By comparison with other European countries, car prices in the UK are very high.

【comparison】和欧洲其他国家相比较，英国的汽车价格非常高。

By comparison with the bond and foreign-exchange markets, the stockmarket has been slow to absorb the prospect of sustained high interest rates.

与债券和外汇市场相比，股票市场对持续高利率这一前景的反应更为迟缓。

By comparison, with the extreme hopes of Romanticism, real love, as Goethe came to see, is always, necessarily, a terrible disappointment.

相比之下，随着浪漫主义的极端希望，真正的爱情， 正如歌德所看到的，总是、必然地是一种可怕的失望。

It is possible that Strickland hated the normal release of sex because it seemed to him brutal by comparison with the satisfaction of artistic creation.

很可能思特里克兰德讨厌通过性行为发泄自己的感情（这本来是很正常的），因为他觉得同通过艺术创造取得自我满足相比，这是粗野的。

Her beginning to dance had been like a change of atmosphere; outside, she had been steeped in arctic frigidity by comparison with the tropical sensations here.

她开始跳舞时就像是换了一个环境氛围；与此刻这儿好似热带的气氛相比，她原先简直就像一直生活在北极的冰天雪地中。

The Fontaines had fared best of any, thanks to Sally's hard ride, but it was flourishing only by comparison with the desperate situation of the other neighbors.

方丹家靠萨莉的劳苦奔波，光景算是最好的，不过这也是跟别的处境很惨的邻居相比较而言。

The hour-hand of a clock was quick by comparison with Mr. Solomon, who had an agreeable sense that he could afford to be slow.

与所罗门先生相比，时钟的时针很快，他有一种愉快的感觉，他可以承受得起慢。

From the beginning, as scrolls, books were light, flexible and portable, certainly by comparison with the clay tablets of Babylon and Sumer that had carried information before.

从一开始，作为卷轴，书籍就轻便、灵活且便于携带，与巴比伦和苏美尔以前承载信息的泥板相比，无疑是这样。

Nevertheless, by comparison with the actions of the Russians as they advanced through Poland and eastern Germany the Allied onslaught in the west of the country was exponentially more humane.

然而，与俄国人穿越波兰和德国东部时的行动相比，盟军在该国西部的进攻要人道得多。

The other class, who might be called the exploiters, was formed by the sponges, who were sober, serious people by comparison, with a purpose in life and no time for fooling.

另一个阶级，可以称为剥削者，由海绵组成，相比之下，他们是清醒、严肃的人，有人生目标，没有时间愚弄。

This figure may seem small, especially by comparison with the hundreds of millions of dollars that pollinating insects are thought to offer the state each year, but it may well be an underestimate.

这个数字可能看起来很小， 特别是与传粉昆虫每年为该州带来的数亿美元收入相比，但这很可能是一个低估。

For Hiccup would grow up to be a Master Swordsman, a Genius of the Art, and this fight, by comparison with the extraordinary skill with which he fought later, was clumsy work, mostly defensive strokes.

因为卡嗝长大后会成为一名剑术大师，一个艺术天才，而这场格斗，与他后来格斗的非凡技巧相比，是一项拙劣的工作，大多是防御性的击打。

The economy of Austria was under-developed by comparison with countries like England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden, being primarily based on agriculture, while it was also well behind its Western European rivals in terms of its education system.

与英国、荷兰共和国和瑞典等国家相比，奥地利的经济并不发达，主要以农业为主，教育体系也远远落后于西欧竞争对手。

He had come a long way in search of man, for even in his youth he had tasted human flesh and while it was poor stuff by comparison with eland and zebra it was less difficult to kill.

为了寻找人类，他走了很长一段路，因为即使在他年轻的时候，他也尝过人肉的味道，虽然与大羚羊和斑马相比，人肉是可怜的东西，但要杀死它并不难。