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1 Better is the comparative of good . 2 Better is the comparative of well . 3 [ADV-COMPAR 副词比较级形式]更；更大程度上 If you like one thing better than another, you like it more. I like your interpretation better than the one I was taught... 你的解释比我以前学过的更让我喜欢。 I'd like nothing better than to join you girls... 我最喜欢和你们女孩子在一起了。 They liked it better when it rained. 他们更喜欢雨天。
4 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（病情、伤势）好转的，减轻的 If you are better after an illness or injury, you have recovered from it. If you feel better, you no longer feel so ill. He is much better now, he's fine... 他现在好多了，身体状况不错。 The doctors were saying there wasn't much hope of me getting better. 医生们说我好转的希望不大。
5 [PHR-MODAL 情态动词短语]（用于建议、警告、威胁、发表意见等）最好 You use had better or 'd better when you are advising, warning, or threatening someone, or expressing an opinion about what should happen. It's half past two. I think we had better go home... 现在两点半了。我想我们最好还是回家吧。 You'd better run if you're going to get your ticket... 想买到票的话，你最好跑几步。 He'd better not try to fool me. 他最好不要愚弄我。 - In spoken English, people sometimes use better without 'had' or 'be' before it. It has the same meaning.（在英语口语中，有时在表达此意时会省略 better 前面的 had 或 be。）
6 [PRON 代词]更大成就；更好行为；更好待遇 If you say that you expect or deserve better, you mean that you expect or deserve a higher standard of achievement, behaviour, or treatment from people than they have shown you. We expect better of you in the future... 我们希望将来你有更大的成就。 Our long-suffering mining communities deserve better than this. 我们长期受苦受难的采矿群体应该得到比这更好的待遇。
7 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]上司；上级 Your betters are people who have a higher status or rank than you do. [poss N] [HUMOROUS 幽默] [OLD-FASHIONED 过时] 8 [VERB 动词]超越；胜过；超出 If someone betters a high achievement or standard, they achieve something higher. He recorded a time of 4 minutes 23, bettering the old record of 4-24... 他用时4分23秒，刷新了4分24秒的原纪录。 As an account of adolescence it could hardly be bettered. 作为描写青春期的书，它已几臻完美。
9 [VERB 动词]提高；改善 If you better your situation, you improve your social status or the quality of your life. If you better yourself, you improve your social status. 10 （用于构成以 good 和 well 开头的复合形容词的比较级，如 well-off 的比较级为 better-off） Better is used to form the comparative of compound adjectives beginning with 'good' and 'well.' For example, the comparative of 'well-off' is 'better-off.' 11 [PHRASE 短语]（用于建议）最好，更好 You can say that someone is better doing one thing than another, or it is better doing one thing than another, to advise someone about what they should do. You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal... 你最好简单吃点快餐，不要着急着慌地吃正餐。 Wouldn't it be better putting a time-limit on the task?... 是不是给这项任务规定一个时限比较好？ Subjects like this are better left alone. 像这类题材最好别碰。
12 [PHRASE 短语]好转；变好 If something changes for the better, it improves. 13 [PHRASE 短语]（嫉妒、好奇心、愤怒等感情）使不能自制 If a feeling such as jealousy, curiosity, or anger gets the better of you, it becomes too strong for you to hide or control. 14 [PHRASE 短语]（在比赛、打斗或争论中）战胜，打败 If you get the better of someone, you defeat them in a contest, fight, or argument. 15 [PHRASE 短语]（因阅历丰富）不至于… If someone knows better than to do something, they are old enough or experienced enough to know it is the wrong thing to do. She knew better than to argue with Adeline... 她不至于和阿德琳发生争执。 It's bad enough to have anyone joke about such a serious matter but a member of the police force should know better. 拿这么严肃的事情开玩笑已经够糟的了，身为一名警察更不应该这样做。
16 [PHRASE 短语]比…更了解（或更渊博、更有经验） If you know better than someone, you have more information, knowledge, or experience than them. He thought he knew better than I did, though he was much less experienced... 虽然他经验远没有我丰富，但他认为他比我懂行。 My sister still claims she cheated on us at cards, but I know better. 我妹妹仍然说她和我们玩牌的时候捣了鬼，其实我心知肚明。
17 [PHRASE 短语]（用于建议）不如，最好 If you say that someone would be better off doing something, you are advising them to do it or expressing the opinion that it would benefit them to do it. If you've got bags you're better off taking a taxi... 你要是大包小包的，不如打的算了。 Their stance seems to be that a baby or child is better off in its country of birth. 他们似乎认为婴儿或者小孩还是呆在自己出生的国家为好。
18 [PHRASE 短语]胜过；超过 If you go one better, you do something better than it has been done before or obtain something better than someone else has. 19 [CONVENTION 惯用语]（表示赞成、表扬或鼓励）很好，这就对了 You say ' That's better' in order to express your approval of what someone has said or done, or to praise or encourage them. 'I came to ask your advice — no, to ask for your help.' — 'That's better. And how can I help you?' “我来征求你们的意见——不对，请求你们帮助。”——“这还差不多。我们怎么帮助你？”
20 [PHRASE 短语]这样更好；那更好 You can say ' so much the better' or ' all the better' to indicate that it is desirable that a particular thing is used, done, or available. Use strong white flour, and if you can get hold of durum wheat flour, then so much the better... 使用高筋白面粉，如果你能弄到硬粒小麦面粉，那就更好了。 If there's good skiing, breathtaking scenery and you don't need to catch a plane, all the better! 如果有好的滑雪场、令人叹为观止的美景，又不用赶飞机，那就再好不过了。
21 [PHRASE 短语]越…越好 You can use expressions like ' The bigger the better' or ' The sooner the better' to say that you would prefer it if something is big or happens soon. 22 [PHRASE 短语]为了更好地…；以便更有效地… If you do something the better to do something else, you do the first thing in order to be able to do the second thing more effectively. [PHR to-inf] [mainly WRITTEN 主笔语] She came on every ride herself, the better to instruct her eager pupils. 每一个骑乘项目她都要亲自试一试，以便更好地指导她那些跃跃欲试的小学生。
23 [PHRASE 短语]重新考虑后决定不做 If you intend to do something and then think better of it, you decide not to do it because you realize it would not be sensible. 24 [PHRASE 短语]不论好坏；不管结果怎样 If you say that something has happened or been done for better or worse, you mean that you are not sure whether the consequences will be good or bad, but they will have to be accepted because the action cannot be changed. 25 better the devil you know→see: devil ； discretion is the better part of valour →see: discretion ； your better half →see: half ； against your better judgment →see: judgment ； to be better than nothing →see: nothing ； the better part →see: part ； |