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。
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。
Even the very phrase "jobseeker's allowance" is about redefining the unemployed as a "jobseeker" who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.
甚至‘求职者津贴’这个说法本身，也是在重新定义失业者为‘求职者’，而他们并没有基于通过缴纳国民保险费所获得的任何基本权利。
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。