1·Three in every five interviewed felt that the budget was neutral and they would be no better off.
每5个受访者中有3个认为该预算不会带来什么变化，他们的境况也不会改善。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Why are the children of literate mothers better off?
为什么有文化的母亲的孩子更富裕？
3·You'd probably be better off with the four reel drive vehicle.
你可能最好还是开四轴驱动的车。
4·You're really better off making your own smoothies at home with your own fresh fruit and low fat yogurt.
你最好在家自己做奶昔，用你自己的新鲜水果和低脂酸奶。
5·Most urban Africans live in slums; migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.
大多数非洲城市居民生活在贫民窟里；移居到城市的人们的生活状况往往并不比他们在农村时好多少。
6·On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last-minute preparations for a test.
除此之外，一份刊登在《学习与记忆》日报上的研究发现睡觉比临时抱佛脚更有可能得到好结果。
7·Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as "a necessary evil".
与此同时，本可以让每个人生活更好的政府开支却被削减了，因为人们本能地——且错误地——将政府贴上了“必定邪恶”的标签。
8·In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average.
在2005年，正如作者所观察到的，法国的人均实际消费仅为美国的60%，表面上美国人的平均经济状况似乎比法国人好得多。
9·She's better off without him.
没有他，她活得更幸福。
—— 《牛津词典》
10·They are much better off than us.
他们比我们富得多。
—— 《牛津词典》