But they do not consider themselves to be better than others who are less important.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

When you decide to become a front-end consumer-oriented service, you really need to be better than your competition.

当作为前端客户导向型的服务提供商时，就需要做得比竞争者更好。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

those two things, yeah. I think it's a lot better than a lot of other places would be.

做到这两点。我想这就比其他地方好很多。

机会之地，伦敦 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

And indeed, the question, strictly speaking, isn't even would life on the experience machine ? be better than it is now?

严格地说，我的问题，甚至不是说体验机器上的人生,难道不会比现在的更好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As a matter of fact, I may even be better than you are.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

It happens to be better suited for manipulating strings than numbers, for example, but it's really a general-purpose language.

例如它恰好,处理字符串,比处理数字更有效率，但是它确实是一种面向面很广的语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you could be, that is under your control."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

The reason I chose Alpha, regardless of what my partner chose, I think there would be better outcomes than choosing Beta.

我选α是因为不管我对手选什么,我选α得到的成绩总会比选β的要好

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Or the writer could show how the subject may be understood better or in a different way than it has been.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

There were also issues about nutritional adequacy and meat turned out to be a better overall food than most plants.

还有关于营养充分的问题,这样看,肉类较植物来说是更好的食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And he said men of Ohio who let themselves be drafted into the Union army were no better than slaves themselves.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

How can it be that one asset does 4% a year better than another?

一项资产怎么会比另一项资产每年多收益4%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These social supports may help explain why many women seem to be better able to deal with stress than men are.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.

或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂，经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释，惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I do not regret it." he said. "It is better to be defeated battling for an honest idea, than to win by a cowardly trick."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

I think the smallpox vaccine we made now would probably be better, more effective, and safer than the vaccines we made in the '50s.

我相信若我们现在制造天花疫苗,应该会比五十年代的更有效更安全

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He said the surrender terms could be no better than those given General Lee.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

I think New York always inspires you to be a lot better than

我觉得纽约总是会激励你变得更优秀，

耐克设计师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Weed finally decided that Scott might be a better candidate than Harrison or Clay.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

and it keeps you in better shape than you would ordinarily be.

而且它又能让你拥有比平日更好的身材。

地铁的好处 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Let us see how all the questions that have arisen out of this unhappy subject of slavery can be better settled more fairly and justly than the plan I have offered.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

当痛苦的人,胜过当快乐的猪;,当痛苦的苏格拉底胜过当快乐的傻瓜。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"But if it can't be in the near term, it's a far better solution than what people are doing right now.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Better to be a serf, the lowest serf on the earth, than to be a king in Hades."

在世上做一个奴隶,一个最卑贱的奴隶,也比在冥界称王要好得多"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"The attitude in these states is certainly different than it use to be, and not for the better,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Ok I've never even seen it, so that's good -- you must be better travelled than I.

有一部分，我从来没见过这是什么,很好，你们旅游的比我多哈。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"If we have election, and I have the government be mine, be ours,it's good,better than now."

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, saying let us be we will serve the Egyptians, for it's better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

这跟你在埃及答应我们的不同，你说过让我们,我们应该服侍埃及人,伺候他们总比死在荒野中好。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Much more from Plato. So again it raises the issue, if you want to know most about the most influential aspects for Western civilization, would it be better for you to take an entire semester on Plato than it would on the New Testament?

源自柏拉图，所以又回到这个问题上了，如果你想了解,西方文明最有影响力的方方面面，那是不是参加有关柏拉图课程,比新约课程更有用呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选