better off

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈbet.ər ˌɒf]
• 美式音标 [ˈbet̬.ɚ ˌɑːf]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 有较多钱的，较宽裕的；更好的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• We’d be better off without him at the party.
  要是没有他在晚会上，我们就玩的更开心了。
• Consider the responsibility that promise comes with and whether you would be better off without it.
  考虑一下伴随承诺而来的责任以及没有承诺你是否会更舒坦些。
• We all think better-off people should share with others but that's not something we are inclined to do when we are better off.
  我们都认为境况更好的人应该跟其他人分享，但是当我们自己境况变好之后，我们并不愿意这样做。

原声例句

• The political analyst believes Cairo would be better off to focus on issues close to home, whether successful or not.
• OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.
  好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。
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• But dualism doesn't so much offer the explanation typically as just say, "Well, maybe we'd be better off positing something immaterial."
  但是二元论还没有给出,这样的解释,也许我们假设非物质的存在会好一些
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权威例句

• It also prohibits employers from hiring those workers, even if both parties would be better off.
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词组短语

短语

• better -off groups 富裕群体
• He Better Back Off 他最好回来
• better r off 经济状况好的;富裕的;更好
• a better -off 小康
• Better -off apartment 舒适的公寓

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• to have more money than you had in the past or more money than most other people
• people who have more money than most others

专业释义

经济学

• 经济状况好的，富裕的；状况好的