better-off
较好的,更好的,更加富裕的,更加富裕
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- : being in better circumstances, especially economically: Only the better-off nations can afford to send probes into space.
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We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
Yes, we do typically do better than Europe (and Canada, too, which is frequently awful on this score).
The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
He also wants to “replace every existing organism with a better one.”
For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
Of course, considerations of weight have to be taken into account, but the more mould round the roots the better.
"Better so," was the Senora's sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.
Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.
This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself.
For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.