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

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

当痛苦的人,胜过当快乐的猪;,当痛苦的苏格拉底胜过当快乐的傻瓜。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

"The attitude in these states is certainly different than it use to be, and not for the better,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

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 think on balance it will be positive in the sense that it is stimulating a recognition beyond the shores of North America, that this needs to be dealt with better."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

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

Or perhaps a better word would be what is it to be reminded of something by something else that resembles it but is not the thing it reminds you of.

更恰当一点的说法是,你是如何因为另一个类似的事物,而不是这个事物本身,联想到这个事物的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is certainly possible, for example, that a quadratic algorithm could run faster than a linear algorithm. It depends on what the input is, it depends on, you know, what the particular cases are. So it is not the case that, on every input, a linear algorithm is always going to be better than a quadratic algorithm.

一个二次平方级复杂度的算法,当然也是可能跑的比线性复杂度算法快的,这取决于，你知道的，输入以及特定的案例，因此并不是对于每个输入,线性复杂度就一定会,比二次平方级复杂度的算法的表现要好,只是通常来说是这样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And so similarly as Gmail's priority inbox, it's gonna be pretty flawed for a lot of us at least initially because it just doesn't know the answers a priori correctly unless we teach it or program it to be better. There is also another flaw in here or multiple flaws arguably.

类似于Gmail的优先收件箱，在起初使用时对大多数人来说它是有缺陷的,因为它不知道如何正确判断优先级,除非我们事先告诉它或编写程序改良它,另外这里存在一个或多个漏洞，可以说是缺陷。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It depends on n and k but obviously as n gets big, that one is going to be better.

但是很明显，当n取很大的值的时候,前者要比后者好。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And against that, we could have the pessimists who say, "The negative side especially once we throw in the negative interaction effects, the negative side is so great that " that it would be better never to have been born at all."

而与此相反，可能有悲观主义者说，“消极的方面,特别是我们一旦把负面相互影响考虑进去，消极的方面就会变得,让我们觉得还是压根别出生的好“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选