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adjectiveadverbnounverb We're hoping for better weather tomorrow. 我们希望明天天气转好。 Her work is getting better and better. 她的工作干得越来越好了。 He is in a much better mood than usual. 他的情绪比平时好多了。 The meal couldn't have been better. 这顿饭再好吃不过了。 There's nothing better than a long soak in a hot bath. 没有什么比好好地泡个热水澡更舒服的了。 If you can only exercise once a week, that's better than nothing (= better than taking no exercise at all). 即便是一个星期锻炼一次，也比完全不锻炼好。 She's far better at science than her brother. 她在理科方面比她的弟弟强得多。 Can you think of a better word than ‘nice’? 你能找到一个比 nice 更合适的字眼吗？ It would be better for him to talk to his parents about his problems. 他把自己的问题同父母谈谈会比较好。 You'd be better going by bus. 你坐公共汽车去会更好些。 She's a lot better today. 她今天好多了。 His leg was getting better. 他的腿在渐渐恢复。 You'll feel all the better for a good night's sleep. 你晚上睡个好觉就会感觉好得多。 Don't go back to work until you are better. 身体康复之前，不要回去工作。 He drank the best part of a bottle of Scotch waiting for her to get home. The journey took her the better part of an hour. 旅程花去了她半个多小时。 I love giving parties, the bigger the better.我喜欢开派对，越盛大越好。 The path was no better than a sheep track. 那条小路简直就像是给羊群踏出来的。 Dry your eyes now. That's better. 把眼泪擦干。这就对了。 That's much better—you played the right notes this time. 很好，你这次把音弹准了。 Charles VII was a bad king, and Charles VIII was no better. Did you hurt yourself? Come here and let me kiss it better. Don’t worry. The doctor will soon make you better. His latest book is a darned sight better than the one before. I hope you get better soon. I thought it better to tackle him outside of business hours. The new situation is no better than the old. There’s nothing better than a nice juicy peach! We must make our inner cities better to live and work in. He was in a much better mood than usual. Her new movie is much better than her last one. Her work is getting better and better. 她的工作干得越来越好了。 I might not be a brilliant cook, but that meal’s a darn sight better than anything you could do. I think he’s a hundred times better as a teacher than Mr. White If you only exercise once a week, that’s better than nothing. The weather should get better towards the end of the week. There’s nothing better than a long soak in a hot bath. 没有什么比好好地泡个热水澡更舒服的了。 Your work is getting better all the time. She sings much better than I do. 她唱歌比我好得多。 Sound travels better in water than in air. 声音在水中比在空气中传播得快。 People are better educated now. 现在人们教育程度更高了。 You'll like her when you know her better. 你对她了解得多一点就会喜欢她。 A cup of tea? There's nothing I'd like better! 一杯茶吗？那最好不过了！ Fit people are better able to cope with stress. 健康的人较能应付压力。 The money could be better spent on more urgent cases. 这笔钱用于较紧迫的事情也许会好些。 Some things are better left unsaid. 有些事还是不提为好。 You'd do better to tell her everything before she finds out from someone else. 你把一切都告诉她才是上策，免得她从别人口中听到。 Families will be better off under the new law. 新法律会使家庭经济宽裕一些。 Her promotion means she's $100 a week better off. 她的晋升意味着她每星期多挣 100 美元。 She's better off without him. 没有他，她活得更幸福。 The weather was so bad we'd have been better off staying at home. 天气非常恶劣，我们还不如待在家里舒服。 You'd better go to the doctor about your cough. 你最好去找医生看看你的咳嗽。 We'd better leave now or we'll miss the bus. 我们最好现在就走，不然就赶不上公共汽车了。 You'd better not do that again. 你最好别再这样做了。 ‘I'll give you back the money tomorrow.’ ‘You'd better!’ (= as a threat) “我明天会还你钱。” “那样最好！” If you think it is going to be easy, you'd best think again.如果你认为那会很容易，你最好再想想。 You should take the baby to the doctor’s.你应该把这婴儿带去看看医生。 I ought to give up smoking.我应该戒烟。 Should we call the doctor?我们叫医生来好吗？ We’d better hurry or we’ll miss the train.我们最好快点，否则就赶不上火车了。 She should have asked for some help.她本应该请求帮助的。 You ought to have been more careful.你本应该更小心一点的。 You shouldn’t drive so fast.你不应该把车开得这么快。 I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have lost my temper.对不起，我不该发脾气。 the better of the two books两本书中较好的一本 I expected better of him (= I thought he would have behaved better). 我本以为他会表现得好一些。 Voters see the new leader as a change for the better. No one can get the better of her in an argument. 辩论起来没人能辩过她。 She always gets the better of an argument. 她在争辩中总是占上风。 His curiosity got the better of him (= he didn't intend to ask questions, but he wanted to know so badly that he did). 好奇心使得他不禁要问。 We don't actually need it on Tuesday, but if it arrives by then, so much the better. 实际上我们星期二并不需要它，但如果那时能到就更好。 She has behaved appallingly—I must say I thought better of her. 她的行为太恶劣了，看来我过去是高看了她。 The work he produced early in his career has never really been bettered. 他后来没出过什么作品能真正比得上他的早期作品。 Their success that season could not be bettered. Thousands of Victorian workers joined educational associations in an attempt to better themselves. 维多利亚时代成千上万名工人加入了各种教育协会，以求上进。 |