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。
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。
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。
Thankfully the win over Blackburn means we are slightly better off than we were.
幸好对布莱克本的胜利意味着我们的形势得到稍微的改善。
When you meet a person who seems to be much better off than you, don't be fooled.
当你遇见一个看起来比你生活境遇好很多的人时，不要想当然。
Are teens who abort better off than teens who carry an unplanned pregnancy to term?
堕胎青少年比意外怀孕分娩青少年的境况更好吗？
But the elderly as a whole are better off than their children are likely to be.
但是老年人整体境况好转起来，甚至比他们的孩子们的将来要好。
He wasn't necessarily any better off than anyone else, but he seemed twenty times happier.
他没有必要比其他任何人都要好，但是他看上去却被别人快乐20倍。
with the result that, in important ways, their children may not be better off than they are.
结果是在很多重要的方面，他们的孩子并不比上一代强。
They had had their three wishes, but they were on better off than when the fairy came to them.
他们被三个愿望，但是他们在更好的仙女出现在他们面前的时候。
And few believe, as they once did, that they are guaranteed to be better off than their parents.
少部分人相信，如同他们所作的跟以前一样，他们保证能让他们的父母比以前过的更好。
But he says he is better off than most farmers as his land shares its western edge with Dongting Lake.
但是，老何说由于他的土地处于洞庭湖西，境况要比其它农民好很多。
But is South Africa - and a majority of South Africans - better off than before the World Cup came to town?
但是南非——南非的大众——比世界杯举行前更加富裕了吗？
Credit pacifies those with lower incomes to make them feel like they're better off than they actually are.
信贷可以安慰那些较低收入的人，让他们感觉比自己的实际情况更加富裕。
But anyone who is alive in the world of the living has some hope; alive dog is better off than a dean lion.
的确，任何人只要与活着的人在一起，就会有一丝生的希望。所以，比起死了的狮子，活着的小狗要好一些。
I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you ask yourself, 'Are you better off than you were four years ago?'
我想，当你们作出这个决定时，你们应当问自己‘目前的状况是否比四年前要好？’
Engineering graduates are also better off than last year, led by salary increases for electrical, chemical and civil engineers.
工程专业毕业生的待遇也比去年更好，其中电气、化学与土木工程专业涨幅靠前。
Even if it is dull and unfulfilling at times you are still better off than the many people who are desperately seeking employment.
即使这时常是枯燥无趣的，你还是比那些正拼命找工作的人要好得多。
The authors reckon that there is a range of prices for bundles that would make both buyers and sellers better off than a single price per song.
创作者估量一捆歌的价格范围相比单首歌定价会同时改善消费者和出售方的利益。
Even the birds were better off than Afrikaners, he grumbled: “Even the marsh-lourie has his sleeping-place and his fellows, his lourie-people.”
甚至鸟儿也比布尔人好，他咕哝着：“即便是沼泽蕉鹃也有他的栖息地，他的伙伴，他的鸟群。”
The rate of growth in per capita income is by far the most important single variable in determining whether children will be better off than their parents.
到目前为止，人均收入的增长率是决定子女比父母富裕的最重要的单一变量。
"Despite the recession, on average, Britons are financially and materially better off than at any other point in history," he told the conference in Birmingham.
“尽管在衰退，平均而言，英国人无论从财富还是物质上都处于历史上最好的水平，”他在伯明翰的会议上说道。
The issue of increased per capita income over time is often discussed in terms of parental preferences: parents want their children to be better off than they.
人们常常从父母偏好的角度讨论人均收入随时间增长的问题：父母希望他们的子女超过自己。
The issue of increased per capita income over time is often discussed in terms of parental preferences: parents want their children to be better off than they.
人们常常从父母偏好的角度讨论人均收入随时间增长的问题：父母希望他们的子女超过自己。
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