in body? in soul's health? Amen, good sir, in all. Who is there so good in mind, body or estate, but bettering won't still be good for him? O unknown Fate, presiding over next year, if you will give me better health, a better appetite, a better digestion, a better income, a better temper in '62 than you have bestowed in '61, I think your servant will be the better for the changes. For instance, I should be the better for a new coat. This one, I acknowledge, is very old. The family says so.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
I must say, you don't seem to have a very high opinion of this country. Yes, it is the place that gave you birth. Do you like the French women better than the English? No: though they have finer eyes, talk better, and are better made. But they none of them look like you. I like the Italian women I have seen, much better than the French: they have darker eyes, darker hair, and the accents of their native tongue are much richer and more melodious. But I will give you a better account of them when I come back from Italy, if you would like to hear it. I should much.英文原著 · 《Liber Amoris》
On the way to the bridge, the dragoman, although he was curiously in love with his forty francs a day and his opportunities, ventured a stout protest, based apparently upon the fact that after all this foreigner, four days out from Athens was somewhat at his mercy. " Meester Coleman," he said, stopping suddenly, " I think we make no good if we go there. Much better we wait Arta for our horse. Much better. I think this no good. There is coming one big fight and I think much better we go stay Arta. Much better."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
"Yes, really," I answered, and an idea crossed my mind which I proceeded to expound further. "Let me prove it to you. Why do we love ourselves better than any one else? Because we think ourselves BETTER than any one else--more worthy of our own love. If we THOUGHT others better than ourselves, we should LOVE them better than ourselves: but that is never the case. And even if it were so, I should still be right," I added with an involuntary smile of complacency.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
And there said once a clerk in two verses: What is better than gold? Jasper. And what is better than jasper? Wisdom. And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than woman? No thing.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
Charmides responded: On all hands it is admitted, I believe, that confidence is better than alarm; better to be a freeman than a slave; better to be worshipped than pay court to others; better to be trusted than to be suspected by one's country.英文原著 · 《The Symposium》
If I could just be better, a better -- better daughter, better student, a better doctor, then I could stop bad things from happening.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
It's better for Porter, it's better for Julie, and it's sure as hell better for that baby.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I'm working to be a better surgeon, a better boyfriend, better at the things I've chosen, but this...美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
Boarding school has a'far better education, far better people'and far better food美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
Pointing people in the direction of a better design for a better life. pointing people in the direction of a better design for a better life.演讲 · 《Treat design as art ~ Paola Antonelli》