"This is an evaluation instrument that is finally able to capture who is highly effective and who is ineffective and who could be doing better and could use some assistance.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things and gradually get better and better at it.

相反，它们来回乱窜，做各种尝试,然后逐渐对于从迷笼中逃脱变得熟练。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"What we're doing now is better. Now we have real techniques,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

But if you start paying regular dividends, then you better keep doing them or people are going to conclude that something is really wrong.

但你一旦开始定期分红,就最好一直继续下去,不然人们就会得出运转不善的结论

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Is Claire Elise doing better in this election or out?

克莱尔·伊莉斯参选还是不参选更好呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Is Claire Elise doing better in or out?

克莱尔·伊莉斯参选还是不参选更好呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选