比得上

Here, we are like a family that consistently overspends its income.

但目前积重难返的经常帐赤字将改写整个游戏规则，随着时间过去，债主将一一上门，将我们收入瓜分殆尽，其结果是世界上其它人从我们身上抽取的税捐一天比一天高，而我们就像是一个入不敷出的家庭，而且慢慢会发现，辛苦的工作所得，将被债主吸得一干二净。

For that purpose, they are more reassuring than a ship: though planked and decked like one, and originally manned with pier-masters in crypto-naval uniforms, most are attached to solid rock.

虽然栈桥的建造或者装饰风格往往带有海船的影子，甚至栈桥管理员们的制服也带有海军味道，但是栈桥多数是固定在岩石上的，对于解脱而言，它们比船要安全得多。

Other people much smarter than I have already proffered up solutions to this problem.

其他人比我聪明得多已经递上了解决这一问题。

They were hustled to get better stories than the competition, different ones, and sooner; covers were scrapped and copies pulped if a piece had appeared elsewhere.

麦克尔斯迫使撰稿人弄到比其它媒体更好的故事，与众不同的故事，而且还要及时快捷；如果一个故事在其它的媒体上出现过，麦克尔斯就会把福布斯的报告撕得粉碎，备份文件也不能留下。

We know that people who are better looking get treated better throughout life, and we know that younger women do better remarrying than older women.

我们知道，长得好看的人整个人生都得到更好的对待，我们同样知道，年轻女子在再婚上做的比老年妇女更好。

I thought it was better than last time, the fact that he stumbled a little bit and then righted himself.

Joe Torre 说，「我觉得他投得比上一次好。其实他是有一点不稳，但是他能即时调整回来。

Yet the resources devoted to them are much scantier than those offered in psychiatric hospitals.

花费在这上面的费用要比精神病院的少得多。

Abercrombie, Kabul, Afghanistan 1967, As enclosed as her pets, an Afghan woman secludes herself behind the traditional chadri as she balances caged goldfinches bought at market.

阿富汗，喀布尔，1967年，托马斯·亚柏克隆比，这位妇人将市场买来的金翅雀顶在头上，一袭传统的察都里袍围住全身，把她围得与笼中鸟一样的禁闭。

Abercrombie, Kabul, Afghanistan1967, As enclosed as her pets, an Afghan woman secludes herself behind the traditional chadri as she balances caged goldfinches bought at market.

阿富汗，喀布尔，1967年，托马斯－伯克隆比，这位妇人将市场买来的金翅雀在头上，一袭传统的察都里袍围住全身，把她围得与笼中鸟一样的禁闭。

But what does surprise me is that, despite the barely controlled chaos that simmers just below the surface during my classes at Boston Latin School, I feel as though I have learned much, much more under the tutelage of Latin's teachers than I ever could at a place like Yanqing Middle School, which is located in a suburb of Beijing called Yanqing.

不过让我真正惊讶的是，尽管我在波士顿拉丁学校上课时，学生们不受管束，闹闹哄哄，但是，我感觉从拉丁语老师那里学到的东西好像能比在北京这所中学这样的地方学到的多得多。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。