"No." Amelia told her, "you had better take it now."

VOA: special.2010.05.26

It would be much better if you had a reference point that didn't care where the pressure was.

我们还需要精确地定义气压,你必须知道气压的大小,当然如果我们能找到一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Now, I know you've had all this bonding in the orientation period, but I think that it's much better when you write a test for there to be some solid state defects known as vacancies in between the various people.

现在，我知道你们关系很融洽,在互相介绍的时间里，但是我想这样会更好,当你们在一起做一个测试,成为固体化学的不良产品,成为众多人当中的缺位。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But you had better ask your employer first.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

A gentleman had class, rank, and status, and you better recognize it.

有一定阶级,地位,等级,还要被人认可

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

When you add another asset, you do better when you have three assets, you do better than if you just had two because there's more diversification possible with three assets than with two.

当你增加一种资产，有三种资产的时候，投资组合的表现会比两种资产时更好,因为三种资产相比两种资产的情况,可选择的投资组合更多。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They weren't eating all the time, their eating was confined to three meals a day, it was more likely to be a social event because the family was together, and the food had more--you had a better personal relationship with food.

他们不是一直在吃东西,他们会规律的遵守每日三餐,可能那时候吃饭更像是个社交活动,因为家庭成员们都聚在一起,而且食物也更多,人和食物之间的关系更和谐

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

- On the other hand, we have to ask ourselves-- and this the question that I left us with last time- whether it would really, all things considered, be better to know how much time you had.

另一方面，我们不得不问自己-,这是上一次课我留下来的问题-,从全面考虑，知道你还有多少时间，是不是会更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选