better

英[ˈbetə(r)]美[ˈbetər]

adv.更，更好，更恰当；

adj.更好的，能力更强的，更合适的，（病情）好转的；

v.超越，改善；

n.更好的事物，上司；

pron.更大成就；

复数：betters;

第三人称单数：betters;

过去式：bettered;

过去分词：bettered;

现在分词：bettering;

英语六级真题

"Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch," all work better "than going though a survey of questions.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

And then at adulthood, IFPri has actually demonstrated that children who were better nourished have higher wages, by a pretty large margin, by 46 percent.

Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.

As more data are collected and methods for analysis improve, researchers will be in a better position to identify how different experiences, behaviors and environments relate to each other and evolve over time, with the potential to improve people's produ

Because previous research has shown that people with high intellectual abilities are better at filtering out distractions, researchers believed students with high ACT scores would not show a significant decrease in performance due to their use of digital

But their results also indicated films and TV shows with women or people of color in the important jobs behind the scenes—director, producer or writer—tended to have better diversity numbers.

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

During the trials, the robot algorithms (算法) and mechanics will be fine-tuned to make it better suited to ailing livestock and ensure it safely navigates around potential hazards including trees, mud, swamps, and hills.

Each week, he would try something different to see if he could find a better, faster way down the mountain.

Educational outings help bright but disadvantaged students to get better scores in A-level tests.

Even when a retailer gets a customer to walk in the store, she can easily see if there's better deal online or at another store nearby.

For better or worse, batteries make possible our mobile-first lifestyles, our screen culture, our increasingly globalized world.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.

Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.

I told myself that all experiences make you a better journalist in the long run and luckily, I was right.

If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.

If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be accurately measured, more people will seek higher education – and come out better thinkers.

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.

In addition, there is better overall health and improved medical knowledge and care.

In fact, by the time miss Bligh stood up to talk, I was feeling much better.

In one study, researchers tested whether students remembered lists of words better if they heard them, saw them or both.

Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.

Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools.

Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught in several ways, especially if one is visual.

Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors?

It involved skiing with his legs apart for better balance and sitting back on the skis when he came to a turn.

It ties up cash we could put to better use elsewhere.

It's a fact not lost on American educators, who amid rising math failure rates are debating how math can better meet the real-life needs of students.

Looking back now, nine years later, I can't remember exactly what it was about these universities that made them seem so much better.

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.

New research says that those who can't seem to keep their inner monologues in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain focused better and show improved perception capabilities.

Once Farrant and her colleagues feel they have a better sense of which switches to throw, they will have to find the best way to do so in useful crops.

Open science also offers junior researchers the chance to level the playing field by gaining better access to crucial data.

People who have plenty of positive emotions in their everyday lives tend to be happier, healthier, learn better and get along well with others.

Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality although the college students had better spelling skills.

similar studies tested whether students learned basic physics and chemistry concepts better by reading plain text or viewing pictures to and everyone do better with the help of pictures.

So, as you see, it's very hard to say which one is better.

Some authoritative analysts doubt that the secretary would get better deals than private insurers already get.

Sometimes the old stuff just works better or more efficiently.

Studies of citation counts show that internationally co-authored papers have better visibility.

Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.

That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10 simply because we are getting better at warning people.

That way, the researchers can see if the self identified verbal learners really learned better when the information was just spoken aloud, for example.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

The best seek to alleviate the external pressures on their pupils while equipping them better to understand and handle the world outside一 at once sheltering them and broadening their horizons.

The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better, and helps them to calm down before a flight.

The relationship between getting more sleep and making better food choices is well-documented.

The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.

The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in s

The robots also lean the most efficient and safest passages, and allow engineers and farmers to analyze and better optimize the attributes and tasks of the robot, as well as provide a live stream giving real-time feedback on exactly what is happening on t

There has never been a better time for collaborations with foreign scientist.

These professional animals are probably better at finding their way in the airports from the most frequent of travelers.

They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions — such as saving more in our pension plans — by changing the default options.

"They didn't work anywhere and all the time – they were better able to manage their work, "Moen said.

Unfortunately, activities involving direct contact with people, which contributed to better well-being were found to be on the decline.

We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the rat race and build a better future.

When all the participants proceeded to the second pair of tasks, the daydreamers performed 40% better than the others.

You are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

Better is the comparative of good .

Better is the comparative of well .

ADV-COMPAR

更；更大程度上

If you like one thing better than another, you like it more.

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ADJ-GRADED

（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.

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PHR-MODAL

（用于建议、警告、威胁、发表意见等）*好

You use had better or 'd better when you are advising, warning, or threatening someone, or expressing an opinion about what should happen.

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PRON

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.

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N-PLURAL

上司；上级

Your betters are people who have a higher status or rank than you do.

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VERB

超越；胜过；超出

If someone betters a high achievement or standard, they achieve something higher.

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VERB

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.

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（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.'

PHRASE

（用于建议）*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.

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PHRASE

好转；变好

If something changes for the better, it improves.

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PHRASE

（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.

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PHRASE

（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.

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PHRASE

（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.

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PHRASE

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.

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PHRASE

（用于建议）不如，*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.

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PHRASE

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.

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CONVENTION

（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.

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PHRASE

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.

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PHRASE

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.

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PHRASE

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.

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PHRASE

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.

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PHRASE

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.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

有好转的

更好的

能力更强的；更熟练的

（病势）好转的，见轻的；舒畅些的

adv.

更好地

更

更妥；更恰当

vt.

改善; 提高

n.

更好者; 较优越者

前辈; 长者; 上级

英英词典释义

Noun

1. one having claim to precedence; a superior;

2. someone who bets

3. the superior one of two alternatives;

Verb

1. surpass in excellence;

2. to make better;

3. get better;

Adjective

1. (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another;

2. (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness;

3. (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable;

4. more than half;

Adverb

1. comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.;

2. from a position of superiority or authority;