less-developed

基本解释

So steps must be taken to ensure that less-developed countries run their reactors safely.
因此必须采取措施确保欠发达国家安全地管理他们的反应堆。
The next big thing for retailers in China will be the less-developed cities of the country’s interior.
在中国的零售商下一步的挑战将是如何进军内陆地区经济不发达地区。
It is endemic not just in the poorest and least functional of nations, but even in the fast-growing (but still comparatively less-developed) BRIC.
它不仅在流行最贫穷国家和最不发达国家，即使在快速增长（但仍相对欠发达的）金砖四国也存在。

Their task is to find common ground, including on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, promotion and transfer of new more eco-friendly technology and the necessary funding to make this possible, especially for the less developed and poorer nations.
Now a development economist--that's Santosh's field-- Development economics is a very important field in economics that is helping less developed countries emerge.
发展经济学...那是桑托什的研究领域,发展经济学是,经济学中一个非常重要的领域,它研究的是如何帮助欠发达地区实现经济崛起
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Some people in less-developed countries feel uncomfortable that they are just slavishly copying other, more advanced countries; but, they have to recognize that is what everybody has been doing all along.
欠发达国家的人,对他们模仿其他发达国家的理论发明，感到不安;,但是他们应该知道,大家一直都在这么做。
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The global expansion that began last spring in less-developed nations is building steam everywhere.
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