They wanted to win the election, and they felt they had a better chance for victory with a military hero like General Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

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

In general, less volatile stocks have done better over time than more volatile stocks, which is somewhat inconsistent with the notion of efficient markets.

一般来说，波动小的股票在长期内比波动大的股票,表现要好，一定程度上,这和金融市场有效论的观点是相悖的。

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Late in nineteen thirty-five, workers at several General Motors factories began a "sit-down" strike at their machines to demand better pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

All right. Second question: or maybe a better way of saying this, and the general format you're likely to see here is, a test involving a variable name, which must be initialized outside of the loop, and which interior to the loop gets changed, so that the test is going to change.

好，第二个问题：,换种更好的方式来说吧，你们通常喜欢的,方式是，这个测试涉及到一个变量名字，变量在循环外已经被初始化，然后循环内部会改变这个变量的值，因此测试结果会改变。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.01.14

k * n m plus k all times log n is in general going to be much better than k times n.

在普遍情况下要远远好于,实际情况要取决于n和k的取值。

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But he was a much better general than he was a politician.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In general, Americans like the white meat better than the dark meat.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

And better in the general sense: become better in schoolwork, become a better person, become a better writer become as best as I can be in all aspects of my life."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

"Promoting our common goals around education,health care, energy,public safety, and,I think in each of those areas, you actually see on the floor here new innovative ideas to take advantage of this general purposes technology that broadband is, and apply it to provide better services at lower cost in each of these areas."

VOA: special.2010.01.26

It also recommends a coordinated climate adaptation research program and a national climate service to better inform all levels of government, the private sector, and the general public, about what climate change will mean for them.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05