A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
优势
Advantage
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
这是一个非常非常大的优势，因为了解我们可能做出的更改需要时间，而制定设置和了解关于新机器的一切都需要时间。
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
我们应该加强替代燃料的开发，利用可再生资源，比如用玉米和糖生产乙醇，或者用大豆生产生物柴油。
Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.
在正在进行的全球化进程下，主要是为少数国家和发展中心以及强大的跨国公司创造了优势。
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
我有读这本书的优势，当剧本第一次提交给我时，它只是另一个黑帮故事——东区接管了西区，诸如此类。
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
这种生活方式对健康的好处也不小，因为它使那些遵循它的人比生活在拥挤社会的人更少地受到堕落的诱惑。
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
媚兰对这个小女孩比我更严格，可能是因为这是我的第一个孩子。她从爸爸那里得到一切都很容易。我更虚弱了。她占我便宜。
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
似乎有一种精神品质，在引导他进行发现的过程中，似乎具有特殊而极端的优势。这就是永不让例外被忽视的力量。
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
伟大的艺术家最明显地成功地把痛苦转化为优势，让痛苦加深他的理解和情感，在痛苦中成长。
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
毕竟，尽管雇佣童工的公司具有经济优势，但作为一项国家政策，废除童工符合社会利益——消除所有公司的这种优势。
The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track.
网上银行的优势在于，你可以超高速地支付账单，而且你的账户在每次存款和付款时都会自动记入贷方或借方，让你更容易保持正轨。
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.
当所有的困难都消除后，你不知道生活意味着什么!我只是被优点压得喘不过气来。这就像早上第一件事就是吃甜点一样。
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
当今时代需要壮年时期的活力和活动;但我感到年事已高，体弱多病，我知道我不能为你效劳。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
当时逃亡奴隶很少见，作为一个逃亡奴隶讲师，我有一个优势，我是第一个出来的。
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
在不利条件下训练有很大的优势。在恶劣的条件下训练是最好的，因为这样的差别在比赛中是一个巨大的解脱。
Dont wait for the 'Perfect time,' you will wait forever. Always take advantage of the time that you're given and make it perfect for you.
不要等待“完美的时刻”，你将永远等待。永远要利用你所拥有的时间，让它变得完美。
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
所有的事情都说了，但很少有人利用它。因为我们所有的知识本质上都是陈腐的，它只能对那些不陈腐的思想有价值。