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更好
Better
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
完美是不可能的——你总能做得更好。我从来没有为我所做的感到骄傲。有时候，我并不感到羞耻。
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
我认为爱国的做法是批评我的国家。除了指出一个国家的缺点，你还能如何让这个国家变得更好?
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
我唯一喜欢的社会是艰苦的社会，越艰苦越好。在那里，你可以深入到基岩，遇见人类。
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
我们的父母决定不教我们中文。在那个时代，他们认为如果我们没有这种复杂性，我们会过得更好。
So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
所以无论你想要什么，需要什么，渴望什么，或者只是想要什么，你最好现在就得到它，因为这是唯一的时间。
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
没有什么比在跑步机上剧烈运动更能让我摆脱坏心情的了。它永远不会失败。锻炼简直是个奇迹。
I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.
我想我已经成为一个更好的歌手和球员。年复一年，每天玩几个小时就可以了。
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
我对民间传说和神话有着比科学技术更好的内在和直观的理解，所以幻想更容易。
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
我写推理小说是因为我喜欢读它，并且认为我可以比一些即将出版的人做得更好。
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
他们说，最好把你的悲伤埋在墓地或花园里，等待春天从睡梦中醒来，然后突然变绿。
You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
你想教下一代，让他们学得更快，学得更多，一切都变得更好。
I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.
我忙了又不忙，忙更好。我一直很忙，但我也经历过很多时期，很多时候都很拮据。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
环境基因组计划面临的责任之一是为社会提供科学基础，使社会能够更好地作出知情的风险管理决策。
You are doing better than you think you are.
你做得比你想象的要好。
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
当然，战争是可以避免的;但它们比某种和平要好得多。
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
我把自己看作是这个星球的公民。甚至当我还是个孩子的时候，我就发现为自己的团队加油是愚蠢的。人们说他们自己的球队比其他球队好，只是因为这是他们的球队，这让我很困惑。
My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
从第一天起，我的人生哲学就是，如果我能提高一个人对食物和酒的知识，并且每天都能做到，那么我晚上就能睡得更好。
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
艺术是上帝和艺术家之间的合作，艺术家做得越少越好。