| 词汇 | bettered |
| 释义 | bettered past simple and past participle ofbetter better verb[ T ] uk /ˈbet.ər/ us /ˈbet̬.ɚ/ to improve a situation: 改善；改进 The organization was established to better conditions for the disabled.这一组织是为改善残疾人的生活条件而建立的。 better yourself to improve your social position, often by getting a better job or education: 提高自身的水平；改善自身的社会地位 He tried to better himself by taking evening classes.他努力通过学习夜校课程来提高自己。 Making things better add salt to somethingidiom allay alleviate alleviation ameliorate cultivate levelling up lighten liven (something) up lubricate make a differenceidiom make a world of differenceidiom remedial repolish restructure revamp revitalize revivify sharpen tonic Examples of betteredbettered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. As a study in the social construction of scientific and clinical knowledge, this book can hardly be bettered. The detailed knowledge of outcrops and their relations probably cannot be bettered. As an account of high politics and covert operations in the period 1940-2, this book will not be bettered. It can be criticised (some people, for example, do not much care for its thematic organisation) but it will not be bettered. Perhaps any world containing conscious beings who enjoy it is bettered by a world containing the same beings enjoying their world even more. Neither the human race nor my family will be bettered by my unhappiness. In wild animals, natural selection will ruthlessly expunge any strategy that can be bettered at no extra cost but, of course, in nature there are resource constraints. It is a form of thrift which cannot be bettered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am most grateful for that intervention; as a declaration of intent, it could not be bettered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We say that that figure, which utterly fails to match need, could be bettered, but that is another story and this is bedtime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The review also indicated that no other member state bettered our position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I doubt whether that record could be bettered elsewhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has never been bettered in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that it could be bettered, but from there onwards the whole thing falls down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From the ratepayer's point of view the position is rather worsened than bettered from last year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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