Professor Geraghty says that "Star Trek's" message of hope,community, and self-improvement are central to American culture,history and identity.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

So in one sense, it's kind of like: how do you have a common language for improvement and progress inside the company?

所以在某种意义上：,就像是,如何在公司发展过程中拥有一种共同的语言？

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

I would hope to persuade them to seek some alternative forms of, you know, self-improvement.

我希望劝说他们采用其它提升自己的方式。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The group met to develop a quality improvement plan for dealing with the problem in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

But this policy of giving greater weight, if you show improvement, is something that most of you will benefit from.

但整个方针是进步处占更大比重，如果你表现进步的话，你们中的大多数会从中获益。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Several people are credited with being the first to use microfinance as a tool for social improvement.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

But right now I am going to give it to you as Mendeleev enunciated it. Atomic number, we will learn later, is the improvement.

但是现在我就要告诉你们,门捷列夫发表了它，原子序数，我们之后会学到，那是很大的进步。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

She says studies have shown improvement when students are taught about bullying and respectful behavior.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

That's a huge improvement. And that's sort of the magic of dynamic programming.

这是一个很大的进步,这也是动态编程的魅力所在。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

With the gold they found in the mountains came a desire for further improvement.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Now how it might be able to offer some quality of life improvement for these patients.

现在，我们如何帮助这些病人,提高他们的生活质量。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Struggling schools could receive money for teacher improvement and for developing plans for success.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

There is some improvement that that will represent, but not nearly as much as if the trans fat is switched out with a healthier fat.

这确实是进步了一些,但进步的程度不如,把反式脂肪换成某种更为健康的脂肪

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

President Obama also signed another bill into law, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

VOA: special.2010.11.29

I think much could be done in medical care and the hospitals in this country are probably about to get vast improvement in their facilities.

比如我们的医疗体系,和医院,需要得到改善。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The improvement was partly the result of increased government spending.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

It may sound like a small improvement but he just had very highly-paid insurance salesmen and they were paid as long as people kept their policy.

这听起来似乎是一个小进步,他只是高薪聘用了一些推销人员,他们只要能保住客户就能获得高额回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

His books included the self-improvement guide "Pyramid of Success."

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Monolatry was an improvement. It was getting better.

而单神崇拜则是一种进步，相比之下它会好一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But they found little improvement for college students.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

And then you probably saw, when you were in our factory, we have this business process improvement, which is where anyone inside the company can get involved in improving something that they see that could be done better.

你可能已经看见了，在我们的工厂，我不断完善业务流程，所有公司员工,都参与其中,改进他们认为,能变得更好的方面。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

In two later trips he saw no improvement.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

The institutions and the ideas therefore, that provide for freedom and improvement in the material conditions of life, cannot take root and flourish without an understanding of how they came about and what challenges they have had to surmount.

故此,这些机制和理念,为物质生活条件的自由和改善,提供了基础,但在不知道其根源且,无法预料的挑战之前,机制和理念是不可能扎根的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And American-British relations showed improvement.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Because you would know being a good utilitarian that taking some, a small amount, he'd scarcely going to notice it, but it will make a huge improvement in the lives and in the welfare of those at the bottom.

因为作为一个优秀的功利主义者，你知道,收走一些对他们来说根本无关痛痒的钱，却能大大改善社会底层那些人的生活,增加他们的福利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Women who had their ovaries removed had a decrease in the risk of breast cancer, a decrease in the risk of ovarian cancer and,in addition,they were less likely to die of breast cancer, less likely to die of ovarian cancer and also had an improvement in their overall survival."

VOA: special.2010.09.22

So that's the marginal improvement here and we've seen this syntax before.

所以这有少量的修改,我们之前遇到过这个语法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Pillay says he has seen significant improvement and is sure the target of five percent transmission rate will be reached.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Antiquity or tradition alone is no justification yet at the same time he seems to recognize that changes in law even when the result : is improvement are dangerous. He writes "It is a bad thing to habituate people to reckless dissolution of laws.

作为借口，但同时,他似乎也体认到法律修改,就算结果是改善,仍是很危险的作法，他写到,“让人民习惯于鲁莽的法律,崩溃是不好的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Then, I find myself wanting to say, "That's not really any better. That's no improvement at all."

那我只想说,这种言论毫无意义,说了等于白说

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选