And President Obama is making a greater effort to show the American people that his policies can change their lives for the better particularly when it comes to creating jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That doesn't mean it's better, it just means that I'm making up for a problem that he created.

这不是说我讲得更好，而是帮他完成,遗留下来的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The laws can't do anything about making people better or worse, it takes them as they are and then it deals with them accordingly.

现今的法律做不到让人,变得更好或更坏,它让人们维持原样,并且循规蹈矩的处理事情

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.

而且，在技术试验上，他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前，马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验，如果第一次失败，我们会继续,而不是停止试验。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Even though you'll see a whole bunch of constructs today and even throughout the course, you will find that there's often multiple ways to implement something, and it will be up to us to guide you toward better design and making in giving two different options the better choice as time passes.

即使今天乃至整个课程中,你们将了解到很多的结构，你将发现,这里有很多的方法来处理一些事情，这将引导你们做更好的设计,随着时间的推移，从两个不同的选择中,选择一个更好的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Suppose the utilitarian calculus in the long run works out as he says it will such that respecting people's rights is a way of making everybody better off in the long run.

假设如他所说，长远来看,功利主义演算真能实现,即尊重个人权利,从长远来看，真的能让大家都获益。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You are saying that's one of the things that would've been better if... And making it permanent. -Right And that's the very good sort of bang for buck, permanent tax change So you both view this actually as a missed opportunity, at best really, right? -Yeah It's the best it can be said for. Alright.

你的意思是，有些事原本可以做得更好,这个是其中之一，对吗。,关键在于任何措施都必须是长期的，-没错,恒定的税率改制，绝对划算,这么说，你们两位都认为,这充其量只是错失良机而已，对吗，-没错,也只能这么说说了，是吧。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选