better adj. 〔good, well 的比较级〕 (opp. worse ) 1.较好的,更好的。 2.大半的,大部分的。 3.更合适的。 4.较有品德的。 5.健康状态较好的,(疾病)渐愈的。 He has seen better days. 他曾经阔过一个时期。 better people 善良的人。 a better thing to do 更合适的办法。 the better part of a lifetime 大半生。 You'll feel better after a good sleep. 你睡个好觉,精神就会好一些了。 adv. 〔well 的比较级〕 1.更,更加,更好地。 2.更多地,以上。 Do better another time. 下次干好点。 I walked better than a mile to town. 我步行一英里以上进城去。 He is better loved than ever. 他更加受人爱了。 all the better 更好,更合适 (I like her all the better for her simplicity. 由于她单纯,我反而更喜欢她了)。 be better off 情况[处境]更好;更加富有。 be better than one's word 所做的超过所许诺的,比所许诺的更慷慨[做得更多,表现得更好]。 be the better for it 对…反而好,反而更好 (Give the child no money, he'll be the better for it. 不要给孩子钱,那样反而会对他有好处)。 better bet 〔美国〕更好[聪明]的选择。 B- late than never. 迟干胜于不干,亡羊补牢不算晚。 the better part of …的大部分 (the better part of a month 一个月的大部分时间,大半个月)。 better sort 长辈。 better than nothing 聊胜于无;不更坏就算运气。 for better (or) for worse 有福同享,有祸同当,祸福与共,同甘共苦,不论变好变歹〔出自祈祷书,举行结婚仪式时的用语〕 (They have taken each other for better or for worse. 他们已结为夫妇,今后同甘共苦)。 for the better 转好 (change for the better (处境)改善;(病)转好;(职位)升迁)。 get better(病)渐愈,快好。 get the better of 胜过,超出,占…的上风。 go (sb.) better 〔美俚〕胜过(某人),超过(某人),比(某人)体面。 had better 最好…,还是以…为好 (You had better do so. 你还是这样做好)。 know better 知道是不好[不对]的,很懂得,很明白(而不致于…) (I know better. 没有的事,我不信。 She said she didn't cheat, but I knew better. 她说她没有欺骗人, 但我深知不是那么一回事。 I know better than to quarrel. 我傻也不会傻到就吵架的。 ought to know better (to do sth.) 不该傻到去(做某事),不该这样傻)。 little better than 比…好不了多少。 no better than 并不比…好,简直就是;顶多不过是 (He is no better than a shop-keeper. 他顶多不过是一个店老板罢了)。 no better than he should be 行为不正,不规矩,不正派。 not better than 不比…更好;顶好也不过是。 one's better feelings 天良,优良的天性,高尚的感情。 one's better half 〔戏谑语〕妻子[丈夫]。 one's better self 良心。 so much the better 这就更好[更妙、好极]了。 think better of 1. 另行考虑,改变对…的想法,经考虑后决定不做(某事)。 2. 对…有较高评价。 n. 1.较好的东西[事、条件、行为等]。 2.(知识、能力、财产等)较优的人;〔 pl. 〕上级,上司;长上,长辈,前辈。 the better of two choices 两个选择物中的较优者。 You'll soon get a better than Willy. 很快就派一个比威利更高明的人给你。 Respect your betters. 尊敬你的长辈。 Do not ape your betters. 不要效颦。 不要不自量力地模仿比你强的人。 for want of a better 因为没有更好的东西[人,办法等]。 vt. 1. 改良,改善。 2.优于,胜过,超出。 better one's previous record 刷新本人过去的纪录。 better oneself 提高自己;改善个人处境。 vi. (情况等)有改善,变得有改进。 n. 打赌的人。
The situation is now so bad that any change is likely to be a change for the better . 目前情况恶劣,只要有变化就是向好处变。
To an optimist every change is a change for the better 对于乐观者总是越变越好。
To an optimist every change is a change for the better 对于乐观者总是越变越好
Comfort : to an optimist every change is a change for the better 自我安慰:对于乐观者,总是越来越好。
Would it be a change for the better 形势是否会有所好转?
But we must likewise reckon with the second kind of change on the enemy's side, a change for the better, that is, his expansion in territory, population and resources 然而也要估计到敌人的第二种变化,即向上的变化。那就是他扩大了领土、人口和资源。
"on one level the personality attempts to solve problems through dream construction . . . . dream action can be turned toward fulfilling constructive expectations, which will effect a change for the better ! “在一种程度上人格试图通过梦的建筑来解决问题……梦的行为能够被导向于实现建设性的期望,而引起一个更好的改变。”
Day and night, almost without sleep, she watched him, and, terrible to say, she watched him, not in the hope of finding symptoms of a change for the better, but often in the hope of seeing symptoms of the approaching end 她不分白天和黑夜,几乎完全没有睡觉,时刻不离地守护着他,说来可怕,她这样守护他,时常不是期望能发现病情好转的迹象,而是期望能发现临近结局的迹象。
To-morrow, i trust, i shall get the better of them partially; and in a few weeks, perhaps, they will be quite subdued . in a few months, it is possible, the happiness of seeing progress, and a change for the better in my scholars may substitute gratification for disgust 我相信明天我将部分地战胜它们几周之后或许完全征服它们几个月后,我会高兴地看到进步,看到学生们大有进展,于是满意就会取代厌恶了。
According to this view, it is not a change in women's attitudes that accounts for their altered work and fertility behavior, but a change for the better in their job opportunities that has pulled them out of the home and into the labor market, and thereby reduced childbearing 根据这种观点,这并不是女性关于更换工作和生育的态度方面的改变,而是一种为了获取更好的工作机会的改变,这些工作机会将她们从家庭带入劳动力市场,从而降低了生育行为的发生。