Introducing a fundraising requirement for students does not help, as better-off children can tap up richer aunts and neighbours.
对学生提出筹款要求并没有用,因为家境较好的孩子可以寻求更有钱的阿姨和邻居的帮助。
Introducing a fundraising requirement for students does not help, as better-off children can tap up richer aunts and neighbors.
对学生提出筹款要求也于事无补,因为富裕的孩子可以向更富裕的阿姨和邻居寻求帮助。
We all think better-off people should share with others but that's not something we are inclined to do when we are better off.
我们都认为境况更好的人应该跟其他人分享,但是当我们自己境况变好之后,我们并不愿意这样做。
Three in every five interviewed felt that the budget was neutral and they would be no better off.
每5个受访者中有3个认为该预算不会带来什么变化,他们的境况也不会改善。
You're really better off making your own smoothies at home with your own fresh fruit and low fat yogurt.
你最好在家自己做奶昔,用你自己的新鲜水果和低脂酸奶。
Most urban Africans live in slums; migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.
大多数非洲城市居民生活在贫民窟里;移居到城市的人们的生活状况往往并不比他们在农村时好多少。
In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average.
在2005年,正如作者所观察到的,法国的人均实际消费仅为美国的60%,表面上美国人的平均经济状况似乎比法国人好得多。
Why are the children of literate mothers better off?
为什么有文化的母亲的孩子更富裕?
You'd probably be better off with the four reel drive vehicle.
你可能最好还是开四轴驱动的车。
Materially they are no better off.
他们的物质生活并没有改善。
If you've got bags you're better off taking a taxi.
如果你有行李,最好是坐出租车。
Financially, I'm much better off than before.
我的经济状况比过去好多了。
One of government's primary duties is the redistribution of income, so that the better off can help the worse off out of poverty.
政府的主要职责之一就是收入的重新分配,这样富裕的人能帮助贫穷的人摆脱贫困。
Her promotion means she's $100 a week better off.
她的晋升意味着她每星期多挣100元。
没有他,她活得更幸福。
They are much better off than us.
他们比我们富得多。
Families will be better off under the new law.
新法律会使家庭经济宽裕一些。
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 are better off using a pure green pigment.
你最好使用纯绿色颜料。
In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off.
在某些有限的方面,也许经济衰退会让社会变得更好。
"He will be better off," said they, "with us than with you."
“他跟我们在一起会比跟你在一起好很多。”他们说。
Economically speaking, are we better off than we were ten years ago?
从经济角度来说,我们比十年前过得更好吗?
Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as "a necessary evil".
与此同时,本可以让每个人生活更好的政府开支却被削减了,因为人们本能地——且错误地——将政府贴上了“必定邪恶”的标签。
Where Europe and America do co-operate, they can at least make themselves better off, which is hardly to be sneezed at.
有欧洲和美国加强合作的地方,他们至少可以让自己过得更好,这是不可轻视的。
On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last-minute preparations for a test.
除此之外,一份刊登在《学习与记忆》日报上的研究发现睡觉比临时抱佛脚更有可能得到好结果。
But when John reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates.
但当约翰长大后,他比儿时的玩伴们过得更好。
"True," said the clerk, shrugging his shoulders; "and yet you are the better off."
“不错,”店员耸耸肩说,“可还是你过得比较好。”
When he grew up, he was better off than his childhood friends and lived a happier and healthier life.
当他长大后,他比他的童年朋友过得更好,生活得更快乐、更健康。
Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off.
我们应该把她安置在安老院而不是养老院。在安老院的话,她会过得更好。
The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.
挪威人的平均生活水平高于美国人,但对气候变化的贡献仅为美国人的一半。
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