about your cough. 0 We’d
better leave now or we’ll miss the bus. Cl MJfrMfEffl a o You’d
better not do that again. T o o ‘I’ll
give you back the
money tomorrow.’ ‘You’d better!’ (= as a threat)
“nfj ” o note at should
mnoun 1 [sing., U] something that is better JOf
|££jF#: the better of the two books pPj X 45 X 61)—A 0 I expected
better of him (- I thought he would have behaved better). X
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A fife ^ M % &F —* IS 0 2
your betters [pi.] (old-fashioned)
people who are more intelligent or more important than you 1! X -J?
A ITSYW1
for .better or (for) 'worse used to say that sth cannot be changed, whether the
result is good or badXWX; get the better
of
sb/sth to
defeat sb/sth or gain an advantage ££ Hit • ■ •; A Jt M: No one can
get the better of her in an argument. Itrk^XAAf^ MM* o She always gets
the better of an argument. M X #-A & 41 £ ± M 0 o His
curiosity got the better of him (= he didn’t intend to ask questions, but
he wanted to know so badly that he did).
so
much the 'better/'worse used
to say that sth is even better/worse T
/
2L
It 7: We don’t actually need it on Tuesday, but if it arrives by then, so
much the better. X ± 4£ j|] M W\ X4f —more at change
n., ELDER n., THINK V.
»
verb [VN] 1 [often passive] to be better or do
sth better than sb/sth else ft ji; Hi!: The work he
produced early in his career has never really been bettered,
2 ~ yourself to improve your social position through
education, a better job, etc. ( jfiiiffcW,
ftfe {v , ± ift : Thousands of Victorian workers joined
educational associations in an attempt to better themselves.
mm
.better
‘half noun (informaf) the person that
you are married to, or your boyfriend or girlfriend A — X (
ta
mim&A)
bet-ter-ment /'betement; NAmE 'beterm-/ noun
[U] (formaf) the process of becoming or making sth/sb better gfc#;-
gleg. ETJ7I improvement bet-ting CH* /’beta)/ noun [U] the act of
risking money, etc. on the unknown result of an event 4J If; : illegal betting $ If H — see
also spread
betting fTiTifrl what’s the
betting ... ?
| the
betting is
that ... (informal)
it seems likely that ...
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What’s the betting that he gets his own way? O The betting is that
he’ll get his own way.
betting shop noun (BrE) a shop where you can bet on horse races
and other competitions jtf5,0; ^
be tween cHr /bi'twim/ prep., adv. mprep. 1 in
or into the space separating two or more points, objects, people, etc. ( $ fa] ± ) X • ■ • A |bJ , ft X ■ • • A fs] : Q comes between P and R in the English
alphabet. , Q X P R Ala] „ 01 sat down
between Jo and Diana. 3% X ff 40 M & M X fa]
X X o o Switzerland lies between France, Germany, Austria and
itaiy. mm, mm, HMjfxtxxjxiBX ome
paper had fallen down between the desk and the
wall.
« m m x &x m m m z m mt a „ o (figurative) My
job is somewhere between a secretary and a
personal assistant.
4£6ljXf£AX4frX404£AfMA|W!o 2 in the period of time that separates two
days, years, events, etc. ( 04 |b] ± ) £
••• A |b] , X X |b] : It’s cheaper between 6p.m. and 8 a.m. XX 6 AXJXIi 8 'gLUCo 0 Don’t eat
between meals.
o Children must attend school between
the ages of 5 and 16. * 5 3\ 16 ^ 0
Many changes took
place between the two world wars. MX# JAA^c
ten kilos. Jr M X A 3\ A |b] o O The temperature
remained between 25°C and 30°C all week.
25
fi] 4 (of a line IMS)
separating one place from another XPil ir; X • • • A
fU: