OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.

好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。

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It would be much better if you had a reference point that didn't care where the pressure was.

我们还需要精确地定义气压,你必须知道气压的大小,当然如果我们能找到一个。

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Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

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2% You could say, I think my portfolio has an expected return of 12%-- that would be better than if it had an expected return of 10%.

如果一个投资组合的预期收益率有-,那就比一个只有10%的投资组合要好。

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The next day there was still no ship in sight so Dudley told Brooks to avert his gaze and he motioned to Stevens that the boy, Parker, had better be killed.

又过了一天，依然没有船只的影子,于是达德利叫布鲁克斯转过头去,并示意斯蒂芬斯，最好杀掉派克。

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I declare a variable called n. I'm not giving it a value yet, so I had better be careful.

我申明一个变量n，我先不给它赋值，所以我最好小心点。

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They weren't eating all the time, their eating was confined to three meals a day, it was more likely to be a social event because the family was together, and the food had more--you had a better personal relationship with food.

他们不是一直在吃东西,他们会规律的遵守每日三餐,可能那时候吃饭更像是个社交活动,因为家庭成员们都聚在一起,而且食物也更多,人和食物之间的关系更和谐

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There had better be something that explains, that's controlling, the motions of the missile.

最好存在某种东西可以解释,是什么控制着导弹的运动

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You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

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- On the other hand, we have to ask ourselves-- and this the question that I left us with last time- whether it would really, all things considered, be better to know how much time you had.

另一方面，我们不得不问自己-,这是上一次课我留下来的问题-,从全面考虑，知道你还有多少时间，是不是会更好。

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So if we want belief in a soul to help us leave open the door to the possibility that I survive the destruction of my body, it had better not be that the body is an essential part of me.

因此如果我们相信灵魂,可以帮助我们在幸免一死的,问题上打开一扇窗,那么必须是肉体不是我的重要组成部分

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