Earlier research has shown that countries with greater trust between people generally do better in economic growth and other areas.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Everyone has figured that out in terms of technology and product, but we thought we could do a better job.

在技术和产品方面,大家都已经想透了，但我坚持我们能做得更好。

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

My career has been better here and

我在这里的事业发展得很好，

旧金山和洛杉矶的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

The wonderful line he has in his last prose-fiction "Worstward Ho", Try again, fail again, fail better.

在他最后一部散文小说《向西去啊》有一句，再尝试，再失败，却更好地失败。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Kevin's mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Well, there you can see it. Sure better have gotten small because in fact it has to be zero.

这一项很小是很好的,因为实际上必须是零。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The Michael J.Fox Foundation has raised more than one hundred forty-two million dollars to fund research for better treatments.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Life has only recently got better for hard of hearing patients with the development of modern hearing aids and cochlear implants.

直到近年来,随着现代助听以及耳蜗植入设备的开发,听力障碍病人的生活才有了改善,不过，有了新技术。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Research has linked participation in sports to positive effects like better self-image, fewer teen pregnancies and higher grades.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

And the service sector economy in India is booming and finally even the industry sector has done a little better.

其第三产业开始高速发展,最后连第二产业,也蓬勃发展起来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

She has been able to send her children to school so that they can have a better life.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

All of a sudden the underperforming fund's record disappears and the assets are in a fund that has a better record -a record that you can actually market.

于是运作不佳的基金消失了,改头换面以优异基金的形式出现,其优良的记录可以用来做基金销售的依据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Controlling East Coast fever has meant a better life in areas that have gotten the vaccine.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

You know it's not the worst thing you ever wrote, and it's not the best thing you ever wrote, and it has a couple of nice ideas, but maybe it could be better.

你知道那不是你写过的最差的东西，也不是最好的，里面也有几个不错的主意，但也许本来可以写得更好一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Falling prices have produced better deals for buyers, and this has helped the demand for housing.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Faulkner has been accused of looking back to a time when life was better.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

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 say the presence of informal schools means that Kenya has two levels of education: One for children from the slums, another for children from better conditions.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

That means that he has to expel from his system not just Homer, not just Virgil and Dante, but also his better teacher, Edmund Spenser.

这意味着他不得不从那个体系中脱离出来，不仅是荷马，维吉尔和但丁，还有他的良师埃蒙德·斯潘塞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the process has helped him better understand where he came from.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

If you have a product and your competitor has a product and you put sugar in yours, people are going to like it better.

如果你和你的竞争对手同样生产一批食品,而你的加糖了,人们会更喜欢你的产品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"The more data government has, the better it can enforce crimes. But it also has some pretty significant disadvantages.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Better! So no error messages means success is probably what has happened.

好啦，错误信息消失了,这说明你编译成功了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She says the patients need to accept that the trauma has happened, but that other and better things might happen still.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

So I forget who it was, but someone down here who has disappeared, was our Jimmy Stewart character and helped coordinate you on a better equilibrium simply by suggesting what you should do.

我记不清是谁了,他今天可能没有来或者坐别的地方了,就是上一讲的詹姆斯?斯图尔特,他只是告诉大家你们应该怎么做,就使你们达成了较优的均衡

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Better known as a stand-up comic, Mo'Nique has been widely praised for her role in the raw and gripping drama .

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

An animal who has evolved a brain that says, "Take care of your offspring" will do much better from a natural selection point of view from an animal who has evolved a brain that says, "Eat your offspring."

逐步形成大脑的动物说，照顾你的后代“,好过从自然选择观点,看问题的动物说，吃掉你的后代“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So let's think about it. This sucker, Mac AIR what's it got in there? That Air Mac, it's, see, it's got, its go-- my Air Mac, I don't know about John's, his is probably better, mine has 1.8 gigahertz speed.

再让我们来看看这台机器，它是什么配置呢？这台，是的，我的Mac，AIR，我不关心John的,他的可能还更好，我的CPU是1。8G的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选