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better-off

/bet-er-awf, -of/US // ˈbɛt ərˈɔf, -ˈɒf //

较好的,更好的,更加富裕的,更加富裕

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being in better circumstances, especially economically: Only the better-off nations can afford to send probes into space.

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Examples

  • 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.