The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.
“少即是多”这一说法实际上最早是由一位德国人、建筑师路德维希·密斯·凡德罗（Ludwig Mies van der Rohe）推广开来的，他像其他与包豪斯设计学院有关的人一样，在第二次世界大战前移居美国，并在美国的建筑学院担任教职。
These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so than Mies.
这些设计师对美国建筑的发展产生了巨大影响，但其中没有人比密斯的影响更为深远。
Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.
密斯的标志性短语意味着，经过合理组织的简洁装饰，其效果比大量装饰更显著。
Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.
密斯高雅的展示方式掩盖了一个事实，即他设计的空间是小巧而高效的，而不是宏大而常常空荡的。
The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller – two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet – than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast.
例如，密斯在芝加哥湖岸大道（Lake Shore Drive）上建造的那些优雅的高层建筑中的公寓，面积不到1000平方英尺的两居室单位，比沿城市黄金海岸（Gold Coast）的老邻居们的公寓还要小。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。