Economists have long assumed that job creation would lag behind overall improvement of economic conditions in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

How--how much of a health improvement that represents depends in part on what the restaurant switched the Trans fat for.

人体健康得到多少的改善,部分取决于餐馆把反式脂肪换成了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And if you do show improvement, that will very significantly influence and emerge in terms of the impact it has on your overall semester grade.

并且如果你显示了进步，那将会有很显著地影响,跟出现影响在你整个学期的分数上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The Ministry of Health's Lo is optimistic that the new data will show an improvement in the rate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

And the fact is, food is healthier if it has less trans fat, but it depends on what fat's swapped out for it, because if you put a healthier fat in then it's--then you get a certain amount of improvement.

事实是,如果食物中反式脂肪的含量较低,确实会更健康,但这取决于被剔除的脂肪种类,因为如果加入较为健康的脂肪,食物的质量会获得一定程度的改善

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Four years ago on International Women's Day, the Afghan government unveiled a plan for accelerating the improvement of women's status in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

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

For instance, she says signs of improvement can be seen in places such as Tanzania and Rwanda.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

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

Continued improvement in American manufacturing was offset by further signs of weakness in the service sector.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

Goolsbee says recent indicators showing improvement in some sectors of the U.S.economy are encouraging Americans who had stopped looking for work to re-enter the job market.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Second has been the improvement in breastfeeding practices, and that goes back to a lot of community work plus support to the health centers and so on,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

(Recording) He says since former President Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea in August, there seems to have been some improvement in the tone of U.S.-North Korean relations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings noted what he called a major improvement with job losses going from 700,000 per month at the start of the recession to 11,000 in November.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

They noted that while there is promising improvement in the pace of growth in China and the United States, they would also work together to support efforts to help countries in Europe with the challenges they face.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Speaking on behalf of the host country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said an effective struggle against such problems requires significant improvement in the combat readiness and coordination of the Afghan military, police and other law enforcement agencies, which the U.S.also considers important.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

That translates into "Unfortunately, despite the most recent indicators that suggest the recovery may be in sight somewhat earlier than we were expecting only a few months ago, it will take far for the recovery to materialize in terms of significant improvement in the labor market,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

Borlaug remained involved with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, even after his research took him to other parts of the globe, where he replicated the success he had had in Mexico, building his reputation as father of the "green revolution" in the 1960's.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13