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

It's also a subject that we can find in the reading journal that Milton kept for the better part of his life.

它也是弥尔顿阅读笔记中的一个主题,那份阅读笔记是弥尔顿在其人生最美好时光中保存下来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, I want to turn to that topic and spend oh, probably the better part of a lecture or so.

我想转向这个话题,用讲座的大部分时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Doctor Murray says at least part of the increase is likely the result of better record keeping.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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And Africa,where approximately depends on rainfall, is particularly vulnerable, Climate change can be reversed, in part,he says, through reforestation programs, better land management and the rehabilitation of degraded crop and pasture land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

So if we want belief in a soul to help us leave open the door to the possibility that I survive the destruction of my body, it had better not be that the body is an essential part of me.

因此如果我们相信灵魂,可以帮助我们在幸免一死的,问题上打开一扇窗,那么必须是肉体不是我的重要组成部分

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选