Yet before this week, there were signs of promise of better times ahead for its nine million people.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

Most scientists believe that its better, a better process, less affected by conflicts of interest, but still affected by politics.

大部分学者认为这是一个改进,不过虽然利益冲突的影响有所减少,却仍不免受到政治因素的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You might think that its function is to make you more - a better cyclist but that's not its only function.

你也许只知道它的作用是--,使你成为一个更好的自行车手,但这并不是它的唯一功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The results showed that if punishment was possible, the group cooperated better on the public project and donated more money towards its goal.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

But I think they also realized they could do a better job, and it has that in its strategic vision moving forward.

但我想他们也意识到还有改进的空间，因此将不断发展纳入到他们的长期战略中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This week Intel reported that its results for the past three months were better than expected.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

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

Microsoft says its new Bing search engine offers a better way to search the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

It means that we better get away from these deterministic models where we have a little electron here with its potential energy and its kinetic energy.

它的意思是我们最好远离,这些确定性模型,那里有一个小电子,它具有势能和动能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It says that, with the use of insecticides, better testing and drug treatments, the world could reach its goal of zero malaria deaths by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The polis makes, a good polis, following good laws, makes its citizens better.

一个良好的城邦,必会建立完善的法律,并施惠于民

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Better working conditions. One of its first demands was an eight-hour work day.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The essay that you read was produced at the behest of his French publisher. They wanted him to write something that would make people feel better about the book, that would give some account of its origin and give some defense for its publication and its content.

你们所读到的那篇短文就是在法国出版商的要求下写的,他们希望他写些什么来让人们对这本书产生更多的好感,来交待这本书的缘起,并且为它的内容和它的出版进行辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Then he said: "No man on earth is more ready than I am to surrender anything which I have proposed and to accept in its place anything that is better.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

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

But the award is better known by its nickname,Oscar.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

They would rather lose - because they're sort of screwing around than- they could put out their best game and they would do better, but they might lose anyone given its, sort of, randomness.

他们宁愿因为,自己有点胡来而输掉-,因此他们可以玩出他们最好的技术,而且他们可以做得更好，但是他们也可以因为一定的随机性输给任何人。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Its chances of passing looked better than ever.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

While its economy is in much better shape than that of Greece, many Germans seem to agree that austerity is needed.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

He said Mexico should push for labor reforms and better education to give its youth viable, legal alternatives to the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Hope for a better day for Afghanistan and a commitment to help its people build a better world and a better future.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"The unemployment rate could,could, at its worst be over 10 percent before it starts to get better,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

(SAYING) Several news editorials have said the state could better spend its time healing a crippled economy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Americans should get a better idea of where the economy is headed on Friday, when the Labor Department releases its closely-watched monthly jobs report.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02