If you have a very simple project, writing unit tests for it may take time that would be better spent in just writing the project itself.

如果是一个非常小型的项目，那花在编写单元测试上的时间更应该用在写项目上。

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In some ways, that would be better, because she shared an office at the Film School with only one other colleague, an older, divorced woman whom she’d taken into her confidence.

从某种意义上讲，他去个电话更好些，因为她在电影学院只跟另一个离婚的、上了年纪的女人用一间办公室。

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Cancer cells are destroyed but so too are cells that would be better kept alive, such as hair follicles and the cells that line the gut, the loss of which makes cancer patients bald and nauseous.

尽管癌细胞被杀死，与此同时对人体有益的细胞，例如毛囊细胞和调节肠蠕动的细胞也会随之被杀伤，因此经过化学疗法之后，病人大多脱发并伴有呕吐。

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Cleveland warned that it would be far better to make safe,careful, and intelligent changes in the tariff laws now.

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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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Or would be better that more information and more expression was available but to a smaller audience which is probably the relevant audience for any person?

我们也可以选择将,更多的信息以及状态,仅对与用户有联系的,少部分人开放？

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This is a huge waste and sacrifice of time that would be better spent on other subjects.

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That would be better than the status quo, but not that much better.

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That would be better, they think, than a system based solely on the micromanagement of individual institutions deemed systemically significant.

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