But she realized then that his mind would forever be on the march, always requiring something newer, better and more perfect.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

2% You could say, I think my portfolio has an expected return of 12%-- that would be better than if it had an expected return of 10%.

如果一个投资组合的预期收益率有-,那就比一个只有10%的投资组合要好。

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And from that perspective it looks as though it would be better to know how much time you've got left.

从这个角度来看,你知道自己剩下多少时间似乎更好。

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He agreed that four years of Rutherford Hayes would be better than four years of civil war.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

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。

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Would it not be better for him to die quickly, and go to wait for her in that blessed place of the future?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Or perhaps a better word would be what is it to be reminded of something by something else that resembles it but is not the thing it reminds you of.

更恰当一点的说法是,你是如何因为另一个类似的事物,而不是这个事物本身,联想到这个事物的

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One newspaper said that the world would be a much better place if all kings and emperors were as kind and honest as Joshua Norton.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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He promised that workers would be removed only in the interests of better government.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

- 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。

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