Things could have been better.

事情本可以更好的。

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Things could not have been going better.

一切进展的再好不过了。

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His love, and the things he taught me, mostly by example, including appreciation for the gifts of daily life and the problems of other people, made me better than I could have been without him.

他的爱，以及他往往通过亲身示范给予我的教导，包括要将日常生活看作是一份馈赠，心存一份感激之心，要对他人的问题给予关注等等，使我成为一个比预期更出色的人，而没有他的教导这是不可能的。

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Through the benefit of hindsight, as with any executive, there are always things that could have been done better.

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Unhappy in his marriage--because it is he who seems to have been the miserable spouse--Jon could have taken any number of steps to make things better.

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Though it could have been handled better, as with all things involving Zynga and PR, this is a necessary decision from a business perspective.

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