Not officials,locals." Oliver Williamson has studied big companies and found that they often are better than markets at doing complex jobs.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

In fact, better than that, this guy is already sorted as well because I whittled that problem down to size 1.

事实上，更好的结果是这个杯子也是有序的了,因为我已将这个问题的规模削减到只有1个元素。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

that gives you a much better sense than kind of going through tutorials or books or things like that.

这就比你上辅导课或者看书这一类东西更能给你感觉。

迷上网页设计 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If we had good boards, I think they could certainly do a better job of that than the government can."

VOA: special.2009.10.30

But luckily, we can do a little bit better than that.

幸好我们还可以做更深入的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Thirty-six meters! That was far better than the six hundred meters space agency officials would have considered a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They showed that patients who received deep brain stimulation had better control of their symptoms than those who only took medicine.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

It turns out though that people will systematically and dramatically view themselves view themselves as better than average.

但是结果发现,人们都会过高地高估了自己,认为自己比一般人做得好。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Or,what better way is there to sell gasoline than to say that using it is like putting a tiger in your tank.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

You can look at that and get a better idea, and that's less affected by lobbying and special interest than the government version.

通过它你可以受到更好的启发,它不像政府版本那样,受到游说和特殊利益的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He argued that babies know better than anyone about when and how much they need to eat.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Maybe it's an invitation to the reader to recognize that there is a better argument here than even the characters in the drama have noticed.

也许是要邀请读者,来辨别出,还有更好的论证,甚至连剧本里的人都注意到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One of the major ideas noted in the report is that some activity is better than none.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

If someone's saving for their retirement you better have a lot more than that; $100,000 is only a few years of income even for low-income people.

如果你们一直存钱存到退休,肯定比这数目多多了,10万美元,不过是低收入群体几年的收入

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Southerners often said that slaves in the South lived better lives than free workers in the North.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

So you build it with a material like silver and gold, and then you encounter the problems of society that your bridge might get stolen because somebody thinks they have a better use for silver and gold than your bridge.

但如果你用金或银这样的材料,你又会面对新的问题,你的桥会被偷走,因为有人认为金和银有比造桥更好的用途

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He agreed that four years of Rutherford Hayes would be better than four years of civil war.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

I would've thought, given the evidence of what Bogdanovich says in that documentary, for instance, if the 4 to 5 minutes has not been cut, it might have been better than Citizen Kane, and maybe one of the few greatest movies that he ever made, maybe the greatest movie, who knows.

举个例子，通过博格达诺维奇,在纪录片中的讲述，如果那45分钟,没有被剪，它可能会比,《公民凯恩》要好，也可能是,他最好的几部电影之一，也可能是最好的，谁知道呢。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

They sound much better than the CDs that have been sold for the past twenty-two years.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

And I feel better about helping people that way than giving a dollar to somebody on the street,

我觉得以这种方式帮助人比在大街上施舍别人一美元更有意义，

我帮助过的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than to improve it.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

He's a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, and the text seems almost to suggest that Milton can't do without his own teacher, Edmund Spenser.

他是一位比苏格拉底和阿奎那更好的良师，这些文章几乎暗示了弥尔顿,没有老师埃蒙德·斯潘塞则不能做到弃绝那些诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This week Intel reported that its results for the past three months were better than expected.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

I think that interspersed with many lectures, I personally think it's a much better way to teach than the much passive lectures that we can have now.

我觉得其中间隔,一些讲座，个人认为比我们现在的,这种被动的讲座型更好,它能更好地,教授学生。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Yet he felt that even with their lies and half truths the old beliefs were better than the moral emptiness of the modern South.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

I'm much better having an exception get handled at the time of input than to let that prop -- that value rather propagate through a whole bunch of code until eventually it hits an error 17 calls later, and you have no clue where it came from.

不是我期望的格式,这时我最好有一个异常处理,而不是让其传下去,这个值传到代码的整个分支,最终会导致一个错误17调用的发生，并且你不知道这个错误是哪里来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said men who died so bravely should have a better resting place than that.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

You know that in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud reminded us that the Freudian slip isn't something that happens just sometimes ; and nobody knows this better than an ad libbing lecturer; it's something that happens all the time.

在《日常生活的精神病理学》中，弗洛伊德提醒我们,弗洛伊德口误并不只是偶尔发生,即兴演讲者对于这一点最有体会;,它随时随刻都在发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He can belt you with that shield, and if he's stronger than you are, or better prepared or more balanced than you are, he could knock your shield out of your hand.

他能用盾牌猛击,如果他比你强壮,或准备充分,或平衡能力比你强的话,他能将你的盾牌击飞

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选