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better
[英] [ˈbetə] [美] [ˈbɛtɚ] 生词本

adj.

adv.

vt.

n.

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1. Better is the comparative of good . 
2. Better is the comparative of well . 
3. ADV-COMPAR 更；更大程度上 If you like one thing better than another, you like it more. 

  • I like your interpretation better than the one I was taught...

    你的解释比我以前学过的更让我喜欢。

  • I'd like nothing better than to join you girls...

    我最喜欢和你们女孩子在一起了。

  • They liked it better when it rained.

    他们更喜欢雨天。

4. ADJ-GRADED （病情、伤势）好转的，减轻的 If you are better after an illness or injury, you have recovered from it. If you feel better, you no longer feel so ill. 

  • He is much better now, he's fine...

    他现在好多了，身体状况不错。

  • The doctors were saying there wasn't much hope of me getting better.

    医生们说我好转的希望不大。

5. PHR-MODAL （用于建议、警告、威胁、发表意见等）最好 You use had better or 'd better when you are advising, warning, or threatening someone, or expressing an opinion about what should happen. 

  • It's half past two. I think we had better go home...

    现在两点半了。我想我们最好还是回家吧。

  • You'd better run if you're going to get your ticket...

    想买到票的话，你最好跑几步。

  • He'd better not try to fool me.

    他最好不要愚弄我。

  • In spoken English, people sometimes use better without 'had' or 'be' before it. It has the same meaning.（在英语口语中，有时在表达此意时会省略 better 前面的 had 或 be。）

    • Better not say too much aloud.

      最好不要大声说太多话。

6. PRON 更大成就；更好行为；更好待遇 If you say that you expect or deserve better, you mean that you expect or deserve a higher standard of achievement, behaviour, or treatment from people than they have shown you. 

  • We expect better of you in the future...

    我们希望将来你有更大的成就。

  • Our long-suffering mining communities deserve better than this.

    我们长期受苦受难的采矿群体应该得到比这更好的待遇。

7. N-PLURAL 上司；上级 Your betters are people who have a higher status or rank than you do. 

  • Sit down and be quiet in front of your elders and betters.

    在长辈和上级面前要老老实实地坐着。

8. VERB 超越；胜过；超出 If someone betters a high achievement or standard, they achieve something higher. 

  • He recorded a time of 4 minutes 23, bettering the old record of 4-24...

    他用时4分23秒，刷新了4分24秒的原纪录。

  • As an account of adolescence it could hardly be bettered.

    作为描写青春期的书，它已几臻完美。

9. VERB 提高；改善 If you better your situation, you improve your social status or the quality of your life. If you better yourself, you improve your social status. 

  • He had dedicated his life to bettering the lot of the oppressed people of South Africa...

    他毕生致力于改变南非受压迫人民的命运。

  • Our parents chose to come here with the hope of bettering themselves.

    我们的父母选择来到这里，希望能够改善自己的生活。

10. （用于构成以 good 和 well 开头的复合形容词的比较级，如 well-off 的比较级为 better-off） Better is used to form the comparative of compound adjectives beginning with 'good' and 'well.' For example, the comparative of 'well-off' is 'better-off.' 
11. PHRASE （用于建议）最好，更好 You can say that someone is better doing one thing than another, or it is better doing one thing than another, to advise someone about what they should do. 

  • You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal...

    你最好简单吃点快餐，不要着急着慌地吃正餐。

  • Wouldn't it be better putting a time-limit on the task?...

    是不是给这项任务规定一个时限比较好？

  • Subjects like this are better left alone.

    像这类题材最好别碰。

12. PHRASE 好转；变好 If something changes for the better, it improves. 

  • Dreams of changing the world for the better.

    让世界变得更美好的梦想

13. PHRASE （嫉妒、好奇心、愤怒等感情）使不能自制 If a feeling such as jealousy, curiosity, or anger gets the better of you, it becomes too strong for you to hide or control. 

  • She didn't allow her emotions to get the better of her.

    她没有感情用事。

14. PHRASE （在比赛、打斗或争论中）战胜，打败 If you get the better of someone, you defeat them in a contest, fight, or argument. 

  • He is used to tough defenders, and he usually gets the better of them.

    他习惯了彪悍的后卫，通常都能战而胜之。

15. PHRASE （因阅历丰富）不至于… If someone knows better than to do something, they are old enough or experienced enough to know it is the wrong thing to do. 

  • She knew better than to argue with Adeline...

    她不至于和阿德琳发生争执。

  • It's bad enough to have anyone joke about such a serious matter but a member of the police force should know better.

    拿这么严肃的事情开玩笑已经够糟的了，身为一名警察更不应该这样做。

16. PHRASE 比…更了解（或更渊博、更有经验） If you know better than someone, you have more information, knowledge, or experience than them. 

  • He thought he knew better than I did, though he was much less experienced...

    虽然他经验远没有我丰富，但他认为他比我懂行。

  • My sister still claims she cheated on us at cards, but I know better.

    我妹妹仍然说她和我们玩牌的时候捣了鬼，其实我心知肚明。

17. PHRASE （用于建议）不如，最好 If you say that someone would be better off doing something, you are advising them to do it or expressing the opinion that it would benefit them to do it. 

  • If you've got bags you're better off taking a taxi...

    你要是大包小包的，不如打的算了。

  • Their stance seems to be that a baby or child is better off in its country of birth.

    他们似乎认为婴儿或者小孩还是呆在自己出生的国家为好。

18. PHRASE 胜过；超过 If you go one better, you do something better than it has been done before or obtain something better than someone else has. 

  • Now General Electric have gone one better than nature and made a diamond purer than the best quality natural diamonds.

    现在通用电气公司已经制造出了巧夺天工的钻石，其纯度比最好的天然钻石还要高。

19. CONVENTION （表示赞成、表扬或鼓励）很好，这就对了 You say 'That's better' in order to express your approval of what someone has said or done, or to praise or encourage them. 

  • 'I came to ask your advice — no, to ask for your help.' — 'That's better. And how can I help you?'

    “我来征求你们的意见——不对，请求你们帮助。”——“这还差不多。我们怎么帮助你？”

20. PHRASE 这样更好；那更好 You can say 'so much the better' or 'all the better' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available. 

  • Use strong white flour, and if you can get hold of durum wheat flour, then so much the better...

    使用高筋白面粉，如果你能弄到硬粒小麦面粉，那就更好了。

  • If there's good skiing, breathtaking scenery and you don't need to catch a plane, all the better!

    如果有好的滑雪场、令人叹为观止的美景，又不用赶飞机，那就再好不过了。

21. PHRASE 越…越好 You can use expressions like 'The bigger the better' or 'The sooner the better' to say that you would prefer it if something is big or happens soon. 

  • The Irish love a party, the bigger the better...

    爱尔兰人喜欢聚会，规模越大越好。

  • The fewer things in the room the better.

    房间里的东西越少越好。

22. PHRASE 为了更好地…；以便更有效地… If you do something the better to do something else, you do the first thing in order to be able to do the second thing more effectively. 

  • She came on every ride herself, the better to instruct her eager pupils.

    每一个骑乘项目她都要亲自试一试，以便更好地指导她那些跃跃欲试的小学生。

23. PHRASE 重新考虑后决定不做 If you intend to do something and then think better of it, you decide not to do it because you realize it would not be sensible. 

  • Alberg opened his mouth, as if to protest. But he thought better of it.

    阿尔伯格张了张嘴，似乎想要申辩，但想想又放弃了。

24. PHRASE 不论好坏；不管结果怎样 If you say that something has happened or been done for better or worse, you mean that you are not sure whether the consequences will be good or bad, but they will have to be accepted because the action cannot be changed. 

  • I married you for better or worse, knowing all about these problems.

    这些问题我都知道，不管怎样我还是嫁给了你。

25.   better the devil you know→see: devil;  discretion is the better part of valour→see: discretion;  your better half→see: half;  against your better judgment→see: judgment;  to be better than nothing→see: nothing;  the better part→see: part; 
Noun

1. one having claim to precedence; a superior;

  • "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters"

2. someone who bets

3. the superior one of two alternatives;

  • "chose the better of the two"
Verb

1. surpass in excellence;

  • "She bettered her own record"
  • "break a record"

2. to make better;

  • "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

3. get better;

  • "The weather improved toward evening"
Adjective

1. (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another;

  • "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"
  • "a better coat"
  • "a better type of car"
  • "a suit with a better fit"
  • "a better chance of success"
  • "produced a better mousetrap"
  • "she's better in math than in history"

2. (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness;

  • "her health is better now"
  • "I feel better"

3. (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable;

  • "it would be better to speak to him"
  • "the White House thought it best not to respond"

4. more than half;

  • "argued for the better part of an hour"
Adverb

1. comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.;

  • "She had never sung better"
  • "a deed better left undone"
  • "better suited to the job"

2. from a position of superiority or authority;

  • "father knows best"
  • "I know better."
1. It's better to go back and make a net than to stand by the pond and long for fish.; Better return home and make a net than long for fish by the waterside.; It's better to go back and make a net than to covet the fish by merely staring into the water -- one should have a down-to-earth style of work to attain one's goal.; One should take practical steps to achieve one's aims.
临渊羡鱼，莫如退而结网。

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2. The life is becoming better and better.
光景越来越好。

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3. To forestall is better than to amend.; Prevention is better than cure.
与其补救于已然，不如防范于未然。

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4. "The more, the better.", as Han Xin said about the number of troops he could command.
韩信将兵， 多多益善。

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5. A barking dog is better than a sleeping lion.
犬吠不咬人，狮睡须提防。

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6. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
朋友向你皱眉胜过敌人向你微笑。

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7. A good bawl made her feel better.
痛痛快快哭一场使她好过些了。

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8. A good bawl usually makes her feel better.
一场号哭通常会使她好过些。

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9. A good name is better than a golden girdle.
美名胜过金腰带。

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10. A good name is better than riches.
美名胜于财富。

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11. A good neighbour is better than a brother far off.
远亲不如近邻。

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12. A half truth is often no better than a lie.
半真半假的话不见得比说谎要好。

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13. A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
一把好日子胜过一蒲式耳的学问。

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14. A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
不能根据马饰论马的优劣。

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15. A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
远亲不如近邻。

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16. A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.
严厉的责难胜过温和的欺骗。

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17. A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.
巧言不如直说。

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18. After he felt better, he searched for work at the various mills.
他感到好些后，就在各工厂找工作。

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19. All her attempts to find a better job were unsuccessful; it seemed that the dice were loaded against her.
她想找个好点的工作，可一切的努力都没成功。她总是不顺利。

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20. An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life.
宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。

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