better half

常見例句

It is your duty, lest you be ostracized by the better half of society.
這是你的責(zé)任。唯恐你被更好的一半社會放逐。
Lower your criteria for a better half, then you'll see a sea of fishes and can reel one into your boat!
把你的擇偶標(biāo)準(zhǔn)降低一點，你就會發(fā)現(xiàn)身邊原來有一大批優(yōu)秀男士，你從中定能找到自己的白馬王子。
He took his family out of town for a month in June and again in September, and also made short pleasure trips with his wife – "my missis" or "my better half".
六月和九月的時候他把家人接到鎮(zhèn)上住了一個月，還和妻子去了幾次短途旅行，稱之爲(wèi)“老婆”或者“我的愛人”。

Yet he felt that even with their lies and half truths the old beliefs were better than the moral emptiness of the modern South.
Roughly half of you are doing better than average and roughly half of you are doing worse than average.
大約有一半同學(xué)學(xué)得比別人好,有一半同學(xué)學(xué)得比別人差。
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So if I had drawn that better it would look as if this was half of this distance, but I didn't draw it well.
如果我畫得準(zhǔn)確的話,這段應(yīng)該是整段長度的一半,不過我沒畫好
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