The Pew report said the city is in better financial health today as a result of the actions it took.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Well, if this thing is going to vibrate for any length of time it better be a standing wave.

好的，如果它在任意时间振动,那它就是驻波。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I mean the technology is, you know, it's a tool to help make a better movie,

我是说，技术是一种帮助我们拍更好的电影的一种工具，

没有特效的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is usually much better to prevent a problem from happening than it is to find ways to solve it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But I don't think that it is very relevant if you think that it is better that a baby should die.

但我认为这与你的想法无关,无论你是否认为一个孩子的死亡是件好事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What better way is there to sell a car than to say it is as fast as a wildcat.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

And indeed, the question, strictly speaking, isn't even would life on the experience machine ? be better than it is now?

严格地说，我的问题，甚至不是说体验机器上的人生,难道不会比现在的更好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said life is sometimes really hard, but you can make it a lot better if you try to prepare for it.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

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

"It is good for Africa. I mean the more publicity that we can have about Africa the better.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

And if we were to think about which one of these is better, it turns out that it's the same i in terms of formal charges, so that doesn't help us out.

而如果我们要考虑它们中的哪个更好，结果从形式电荷来看,它们之间没有区别，因此这不能帮我们进行判断。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And as more critical writers of America, like those of Britain, feel no need of it, the sooner it is forgotten,the better."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The even better news is that Fib instead of 25 calls, it was only 11 calls.

更好的消息是,上次调用了25次，这次只调用了11次。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

And Socrates says it is better to be just even if that results in persecution and death.

苏格拉底回说，正义较好,就算结果是要面对迫害或是死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That is,it is better to eat vitamin-rich foods to prevent disease instead of eating them to cure a disease after it has developed.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

It is better, he says, to go by the path leading to justice.

他说,更好的方式是走正义之路

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If trouble comes, it is better to let it come now than at some later time."

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The reason I don't want to play a strictly dominated strategy is, if instead, I play the strategy that dominates it, I do better in every case.

我不选择严格劣势策略的原因是,要我选了优势策略,我在每次博弈都得到更好的收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Doctor Fry says it is better to prevent the flu than to have to treat it.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Some neighbors say that while GW is trying to be friendlier to the environment, it could also be a better friend to the neighborhood.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

So we have to come up--we mortals-- have to come up with some other device, and our device to remember things is to try to write it down because my premise here is, if you can write music down clearly you are hearing it, clearly, and you would have a better chance of remembering it if you could write it down.

因此我们普通人,必须开发出,不得不开发出一些其它的方法,而我们用来记忆的方法,就是试着写下来,它的前提是,如果你可以将听到的音乐清楚地写下来,很清楚,那么你就更有可能,记住它,前提是你能写下它

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"I do not regret it." he said. "It is better to be defeated battling for an honest idea, than to win by a cowardly trick."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Still,the doctor says it is better to do just chest compressions than to do nothing.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Would it be better for people to be able to see everyone and maybe not feel like this is a secure environment in which they can share their interests and what they thought and what they care about?

我们可以选择,将用户信息全部公开,但在这样一个网络环境下,分享自己的所见所闻,所感所想,总会让人觉得不可靠？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It is always better to work with another person to solve a problem.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The idea was that this is better it's more democratic; each region of the United States has its own bank.

核心理念是这样会更好，这样更民主；,美国的每一个地区都有它自己的银行。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He looked at their maths scores, because English is not really objective and you know maybe it was the teachers who thought they were better than they were really.

他查看他们的数学成绩，因为英语不够客观,也许是老师们,觉得某些学生英语更好。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选