A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
改进
Improvement
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
产品的不断改进和消费者品味的不断提升是大众营销的核心。
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
社会进步更容易通过对结果质量的关注而不是单纯的动机来实现。
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
几乎所有的质量改进都是通过简化设计、制造…布局、过程和过程。
Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.
作为一个人，你能生存下来的任何磨难都是你性格上的进步，通常也是生活上的进步。
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
如果你通过能力教育、取消学校教育、与学生建立联系来提高教育水平，考试成绩就会提高。
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
这些所谓的替代安排大多是在婚姻的废墟上产生的，而不是作为旧式婚姻的一种改进。
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
我们还有很大的改进空间。我们生活的每一个方面都必须加以审视。我们如何承担责任。
If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
如果这是成年期，她能发现的唯一改善是，现在她可以吃甜点而不吃蔬菜了。
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
对文明来说，最好的保障是住所，而人类的进步，最重要的是取决于适当的布置和成为住所。
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
政治是关于改善人们的生活。这是为了推进我们国家和世界的和平与正义事业。政治就是为人民谋福利。
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
只要我的六年级学生表现出平均五年的进步，校长和学区就会让我一个人创造自己的课程，教我想教的任何东西。
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
我认为这是正义的，我认为这是父母们想知道的。他们想知道学校里发生了什么，什么需要改进，这就是这部法律的作用。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.
尽管我们不得不做出痛苦的改变，但我们仍然相信圣路易斯市场。我们希望谨慎地增加航班，因为我们的业务在经济上有所改善，圣路易斯旅游公众的需求也变得清晰起来。
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
优秀的公司不相信卓越——只相信不断的改进和变化。
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。
Improvement begins with I.
改善始于我。
I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
我认为，如果我们必须填埋垃圾，而且我认为我们基本上也必须填埋垃圾，那么我们不妨从好处入手，把好处用很多不同的方式来改善环境。
Practice without improvement is meaningless.
没有进步的实践是没有意义的。