bettered

英 [ˈbetəd]

美 [ˈbetərd]

v.  胜过; 超过; (通过教育、更好的工作等)改进社会地位，上进
better的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• 
  Betteris the comparative ofgood.
• 
  Betteris the comparative ofwell.
• ADV-COMPAR 更；更大程度上
  If you like one thingbetter thananother, you like it more.
  1. 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。
  2. I'd like nothing better than to join you girls...
     我最喜欢和你们女孩子在一起了。
  3. They liked it better when it rained.
     他们更喜欢雨天。
• ADJ-GRADED （病情、伤势）好转的，减轻的
  If you arebetterafter an illness or injury, you have recovered from it. If you feelbetter, you no longer feel so ill.
  1. He is much better now, he's fine...
     他现在好多了，身体状况不错。
  2. 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。
• PHR-MODAL （用于建议、警告、威胁、发表意见等）最好
  You usehad betteror'd betterwhen you are advising, warning, or threatening someone, or expressing an opinion about what should happen.
  1. 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。
  2. You'd better run if you're going to get your ticket...
     想买到票的话，你最好跑几步。
  3. He'd better not try to fool me.
     他最好不要愚弄我。
  4. In spoken English, people sometimes usebetterwithout '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。）
  5. Better not say too much aloud.
     最好不要大声说太多话。
• PRON 更大成就；更好行为；更好待遇
  If you say that you expect or deservebetter, you mean that you expect or deserve a higher standard of achievement, behaviour, or treatment from people than they have shown you.
  1. We expect better of you in the future...
     我们希望将来你有更大的成就。
  2. 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。
• N-PLURAL 上司；上级
  Yourbettersare people who have a higher status or rank than you do.
  1. Sit down and be quiet in front of your elders and betters.
     在长辈和上级面前要老老实实地坐着。
• VERB 超越；胜过；超出
  If someonebettersa high achievement or standard, they achieve something higher.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 提高；改善
  If youbetteryour situation, you improve your social status or the quality of your life. If youbetter yourself, you improve your social status.
  1. He had dedicated his life to bettering the lot of the oppressed people of South Africa...
     他毕生致力于改变南非受压迫人民的命运。
  2. Our parents chose to come here with the hope of bettering themselves.
     我们的父母选择来到这里，希望能够改善自己的生活。
• （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）
  Betteris 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）最好，更好
  You can say that someoneis betterdoing one thing than another, orit is betterdoing one thing than another, to advise someone about what they should do.
  1. 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。
  2. 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？
  3. Subjects like this are better left alone.
     像这类题材最好别碰。
• PHRASE 好转；变好
  If something changesfor the better, it improves.
  1. Dreams of changing the world for the better.
     让世界变得更美好的梦想
• PHRASE （嫉妒、好奇心、愤怒等感情）使不能自制
  If a feeling such as jealousy, curiosity, or angergets the better ofyou, it becomes too strong for you to hide or control.
  1. She didn't allow her emotions to get the better of her.
     她没有感情用事。
• PHRASE （在比赛、打斗或争论中）战胜，打败
  If youget the better ofsomeone, you defeat them in a contest, fight, or argument.
  1. He is used to tough defenders, and he usually gets the better of them.
     他习惯了彪悍的后卫，通常都能战而胜之。
• PHRASE （因阅历丰富）不至于…
  If someoneknows better than todo something, they are old enough or experienced enough to know it is the wrong thing to do.
  1. She knew better than to argue with Adeline...
     她不至于和阿德琳发生争执。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 比…更了解（或更渊博、更有经验）
  If youknow better thansomeone, you have more information, knowledge, or experience than them.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE （用于建议）不如，最好
  If you say that someone wouldbe better offdoing something, you are advising them to do it or expressing the opinion that it would benefit them to do it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 胜过；超过
  If yougo one better, you do something better than it has been done before or obtain something better than someone else has.
  1. Now General Electric have gone one better than nature and made a diamond purer than the best quality natural diamonds.
     现在通用电气公司已经制造出了巧夺天工的钻石，其纯度比最好的天然钻石还要高。
• 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.
  1. '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？”
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 越…越好
  You can use expressions like 'Thebiggerthe better' or 'Thesoonerthe better' to say that you would prefer it if something is big or happens soon.
  1. The Irish love a party, the bigger the better...
     爱尔兰人喜欢聚会，规模越大越好。
  2. The fewer things in the room the better.
     房间里的东西越少越好。
• PHRASE 为了更好地…；以便更有效地…
  If you do somethingthe better todo something else, you do the first thing in order to be able to do the second thing more effectively.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE 重新考虑后决定不做
  If you intend to do something and thenthink better of it, you decide not to do it because you realize it would not be sensible.
  1. Alberg opened his mouth, as if to protest. But he thought better of it.
     阿尔伯格张了张嘴，似乎想要申辩，但想想又放弃了。
• PHRASE 不论好坏；不管结果怎样
  If you say that something has happened or been donefor 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.
  1. I married you for better or worse, knowing all about these problems.
     这些问题我都知道，不管怎样我还是嫁给了你。
• better the devil you know→ see:devil

双语例句

• Bettered the world 3,000 meters record.
  创造了3000米的世界纪录。
• This achievement cannot be bettered.
  这一成就好得不能再好了。
• The maps in the guidebooks have been bettered by Google Maps.
  书中的地图已被更完善的谷歌地图所代替。
• The social security macro-regulation and supervision system shall be bettered and its management level and efficiency raised, so as to ensure the stable, healthy and orderly operation of the social security system.
  健全社会保障宏观调控和监督体制，提高管理水平和工作效率，促进社会保障体系稳定、健康和有序运行。
• But, as a show of intent to be the next big consolidator of exchanges, the offer for ASX could hardly be bettered.
  不过，要展示自己有意成为下一个大型交易所整合者，出价收购澳交所可能是再好不过的选择。
• Our living conditions have bettered a great deal.
  我们的生活条件大大改善了。
• One of his first experiments after the telephone bettered the phonograph.
  他在发明电话后首次的一项实验中，改善了留声机的品质。
• He bettered his own world record in that race by winning in9.69sec, despite slowing down over the final20m to showboat.
  虽然他为了表现自己的实力在最后20米的时候开始减速，但最终还是以9秒69的成绩摘走了金牌，并刷新了自己创造的世界纪录。
• As a guide to clear communication it has probably not been bettered.
  作为一本关于准确沟通的指南，它可能无出其右了。
• Bolt bettered the mark of9.74 set by countryman Asafa Powell last September and becomes officially the fastest man on the planet.
  博尔特刷新了同胞阿萨法-鲍威尔在去年9月写下的9秒74纪录，正式成为全球最快的短跑名将。