A bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength, suggests that willpower (意志力) is the ability to make decisions that are better for us in the long term, rather than in the short term.
《意志力：重新发现人类最伟大的力量》这本畅销书表明意志力是做决定的能力，从长远而非短期来看对我们更有益。
Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks. Set your software timer to stop you every half hour or so.
经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。所以设置你的计时软件大约每半小时提醒你一次。
Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks.
经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。
This may be a survival strategy – that is, a strategy shift from the short term to the long term – but surviving a crisis is better than suffering from it.
这可能是生存的策略，就是说，是一种将短期转为长期的策略。 在危机中求生存总要比受苦受难来的好。
For me, to live a short and exciting life is far better than to live a long and boring one.
对我来说，过个短暂而刺激的生活比过漫长却无聊的日子好得多。
A short, powerful speech that you can blurt out from memory is always better than a long, difficult speech that you read from a paper.
将一个简短的、强有力的演讲脱口而出总比你照着文稿读一个冗长而复杂的演讲要强。
It performs better than other protocols in the cases when long and short transactions are mixed.
在长短事务混合的情况下，它的性能比其它的并发控制协议更好。
When the elastic modulus of the short-pile is bigger, adapting the elastic modulus of the long-pile to adjust load share is better than that when the elastic modulus of the short-pile is smaller.
当短桩为高模量刚性桩时采用调整长桩弹性模量的方法来调节桩土的荷载分担的效果要比短桩为低模量柔性桩时稍佳。
In other words, it's better to live a short but happy and useful life than to live a long but unhappy and useless life.
换句话说，活得短暂但日子却过得快乐有所作为要比活得久但日子过得不快乐也无所作为要好。
To me, saying a poodle with long legs is better than one with short legs seems absurd. A poodle's a poodle, for heaven's sake.
谁知道？对我来说腿长一些的卷毛狗会比短腿的要优秀这个观点似乎是荒谬的。
Conclusion Both the short term and long term effects were better in acupuncture group than in drug group.
结论针刺组的近期疗效和远期疗效均优于药物组。
The longitudinal response frequency and damping features of the flexible wing at both modes of long and short periods are also better than those of the fixed wing.
柔性翼的长周期和短周期模态的衰减特性和阻尼特性略优于刚性翼。
The bolt improves the stability of the surrounding rock. The reinforcement effect of the long bolt is better than that of the short bolt.
锚杆使得围岩的稳定性大大提高，且长锚杆的支护效果要优于短锚杆。
The bolt improves the stability of the surrounding rock. The reinforcement effect of the long bolt is better than that of the short bolt.
锚杆使得围岩的稳定性大大提高，且长锚杆的支护效果要优于短锚杆。
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