better 是什么意思？better 的含义 - 柯林高阶英语学习词典 - 在线工具

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense betters , present participle bettering , past tense, past participle bettered

Better is the comparative of good.

Better is the comparative of well2.

3. adverb [ADVERB after verb]

If you like one thing better than another, you like it more.

I like your interpretation better than the one I was taught.

I'd like nothing better than to join you girls.

They liked it better when it rained.

Synonyms: to a greater degree, more completely, more thoroughly More Synonyms of better

4. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]

If you are better after an illness or injury, you have recovered from it. If you feel better, you no longer feel so ill.

He is much better now, he's fine.

The doctors were saying there wasn't much hope of me getting better.

5. phrase

You use had better or 'd better when you are advising, warning, or threatening someone, or expressing an opinion about what should happen.

It's half past two. I think we had better go home.

You'd better run if you're going to get your ticket.

He'd better not try to fool me.

In spoken English, people sometimes use better without 'had' or 'be' before it. It has the same meaning.

Better not say too much aloud.

6. pronoun

If you say that you expect or deserve better, you mean that you expect or deserve a higher standard of achievement, behaviour, or treatment from people than they have shown you.

We expect better of you in the future.

Our long-suffering mining communities deserve better than this.

7. plural noun [poss NOUN]

Your betters are people who have a higher status or rank than you do.

[humorous, old-fashioned]

Sit down and be quiet in front of your elders and betters.

8. verb

If someone betters a high achievement or standard, they achieve something higher.

He recorded a time of 4 minutes 23, bettering the old record of 4-24. [VERB noun]

As an account of adolescence it could hardly be bettered. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: beat, top, exceed, excel More Synonyms of better

9. verb

If you better your situation, you improve your social status or the quality of your life. If you better yourself, you improve your social status.

He had dedicated his life to bettering the lot of the oppressed people of South Africa. [VERB noun]

Our parents chose to come here with the hope of bettering themselves. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]

Synonyms: improve, further, raise, forward More Synonyms of better

10.

Better is used to form the comparative of compound adjectives beginning with 'good' and 'well.' For example, the comparative of 'well-off' is 'better-off.'

11.

be better doing sth/it is better doing sth

12.

to change for the better

13.

to get the better of sb

14.

to get the better of sb

15.

to know better

16.

to know better