for the better

And for the worse -- not for the better, but for the worse. It had a huge impact on life.

更糟的是--注意不是更好，是更糟，它对生活的影响巨大。

For the better part of the past two decades, Americans have been living in a state of willful optimism about our financial future.

在过去20年的大部分时间里，对于自己的金融前景，美国人一直抱有一种肆意乐观的态度。

He pulled me aside and sat me down in his office where he told me stories and jokes for the better part of half an hour.

他把我拉到一旁并一起到他办公室小坐，在那里我们聊了大半个小时。

" He said he served as Senate speaker, but the work does not end, determined to " make people's lives for the better and hard work.

他说自己担任过参院议长，但工作并不因此而结束，决心“为使国民的生活变得更好而拼命努力”。

Thank God, these precious sheepskin volumes referred to my hands, my life from a turn for the better.

感谢上帝，把这些珍贵的羊皮卷交到我的手上，使我的生命从此有了转机。

He said that service is about making an impact on other people, about trying to help them and change them for the better.

他说，服事是在别人生命中留下影响，是去设法帮助他们﹐使他们改变成为更好。

So is all change for the better, like birth and death which convulse the body.

一切能使情况好转的变迁都是如此，正如振撼整个人体的生与死一样。

She said she had witnessed "great change" since her last address to the UN in 1957, "much of it for the better" .

女王说她自己见证了联合国在其1957年的演讲后发生的巨变，而“这大多数的变化都是为了使联合国变得更加完善”

When I first met Van Ness, he was quite lost spiritually, but through prayer and seeking God he made a dramatic turn for the better.

第一次与V接触，他那时相当的失意，但是经过祷告并在神的指引下，他整个人有了戏剧性的转变。

Despite all that, she is convinced things will change for the better and that women's football in Argentina is on the right path.

即使如此，她确信事情会向好的方向发展，阿根廷的女足运动在正确的道路上。

After sleeping around for the better part of my 20s, it somehow occurred to me that I wasn't giving everyone a fair shot.

在沉睡过我20妙龄的较好部分后，不知怎的，我突然想到，我没有对每个人给予公平。

Even today, people holed up in windowless offices before glowing computer screens may not see their fellows for the better part of each day.

即使在今天，在没有窗户的办公室的在闪烁的计算机屏幕前的人们，可能看不到每一天他们同事的更好的部分。

The question of how many rocky worlds exist in the galaxy has perplexed astronomers for the better part of a century.

在大半个世纪里，银河系有多少岩石星球的问题一直困惑着天文学家们。

The jury had been sequestered for the better part of a year and was showing signs of strain and exhaustion.

陪审团在一年中最好的部分被隔离，正显出紧张和劳累的迹象。

As the next article will explain, this policy has had a transformational effect on China's relations in much of Asia, mostly for the better.

下一篇报告将会进一步阐述：这一政策已经让中国与亚洲国家的关系发生变化，而且主要是向好的方向发展。

With his poll ratings hovering at 30 percent for the better part of a year, no one wants to follow Bush anywhere.

随着他一年内最好的支持率也只是低迷的盘旋在30%左右，没有人愿意再去听从布什了。

For the better, I might add. I'll answer one more question, then I got to go have lunch with your president.

我只能再回答一个问题了，然后我跟你们的主席吃饭去了。

There is something very special about this particular trip, and you seem to be changed for the better by what happens on this journey.

也有一些是非常关注这个特殊的行程特别，你似乎是用什么在这个旅程中发生的变好了。

For the better promotion its containerized traffic's development, Ningbo Port must carry on the long-term plan to its future development.

为了更好的促进其集装箱运输的发展，宁波港需对其未来的发展进行长远规划。

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and hope you keep your heads up high and see how much your lives will change for the better.

我是来自天狼星的SaLuSa，并且希望你们保持你们高昂的气势，明白你们的生活将变得更加美好。