Researchers say villages where farmers planted trees did better than others during a drought and food shortage in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

When you decide to become a front-end consumer-oriented service, you really need to be better than your competition.

当作为前端客户导向型的服务提供商时，就需要做得比竞争者更好。

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

that gives you a much better sense than kind of going through tutorials or books or things like that.

这就比你上辅导课或者看书这一类东西更能给你感觉。

迷上网页设计 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Thirty-six meters! That was far better than the six hundred meters space agency officials would have considered a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

But then who would understand better than John Milton, Sr. the importance or the value of a long-term investment strategy?

但在那时谁又比弥尔顿先生更懂得,长远投资的重要性呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yet researchers from Stanford University say new treatments are often no better than existing ones, but are almost always more costly.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

In fact, better than that, this guy is already sorted as well because I whittled that problem down to size 1.

事实上，更好的结果是这个杯子也是有序的了,因为我已将这个问题的规模削减到只有1个元素。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And he said men of Ohio who let themselves be drafted into the Union army were no better than slaves themselves.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

And I think this is perhaps the whole one area in which we treat animals better than we treat humans.

只有在这一点上，我们对待动物的方式,要比对待人的方式人道得多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

In fact, you're just a bit better than chance but you are better than chance at telling sexual orientation.

但你猜对的几率只比碰运气好一点点,猜对性取向的几率要比碰运气好一点点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If we had good boards, I think they could certainly do a better job of that than the government can."

VOA: special.2009.10.30

So from the point of view of the producers, this Cournot Equilibrium is worse than monopoly, but better than perfect competition.

从生产者的角度来看,古诺均衡劣于垄断,优于完全竞争

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said cutting health care costs step by step is better than the Democrats' plan.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

Here, Socrates makes the case against himself, you might say he makes the case against himself better than his accusers in the courtroom did so.

则苏格拉底做出了自抗的论点，你甚至会说他自抗的论点,强过法庭上指控者的论点。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They showed that patients who received deep brain stimulation had better control of their symptoms than those who only took medicine.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Obviously, if the balance of pleasure over pain is positive, that's better than zero.

显然如果快乐减痛苦是正的，即比零大。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Those who sometimes ate curry, or ate it often or very often, did better than individuals who rarely or never ate curry.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

How can it be that one asset does 4% a year better than another?

一项资产怎么会比另一项资产每年多收益4%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She studied pain management efforts in the United States, which she said were better than those of Britain.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Hopelessly out of touch with popular culture and nobody knows this better than I and to prove this I have chosen a piece because there's a little story with it.

貌似我和流行文化没有一丁点接轨的,这我比谁都清楚,可以为我证明这点,是一个小故事

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The researchers said the hair cortisol levels were a better predictor of heart attack than established risk factors like high blood pressure.

VOA: special.2010.10.12

He was a poet, was a Harvard professor, "What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science-- information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance.

他生前是一位诗人，是哈佛的教授，“错的不是科学的重大发现-,有信息永远比无知强，不管是什么样信息和什么样无知。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Those with ring fingers longer than index fingers did better on the math part of a standardized test than the reading part.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

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

But she tells us in an e-mail: "A live conference feed was 100% better than a textbook.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

those two things, yeah. I think it's a lot better than a lot of other places would be.

做到这两点。我想这就比其他地方好很多。

机会之地，伦敦 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They are amoral, some of them are nicer and better than others But they're not necessarily morally good or righteous.

他们是没有道德原则的，其中一些比另一些和善一点,但他们并没有道德上的美好和正直。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选