今天我们要学的词是better off。 Better off, 是境况更好的意思。"The team is better off without the star center who is not a team player," 没有这个缺乏团队精神的明星中锋，球队反而更好。虽然经济不景气，但是有研究发现，"Six in ten young people think they are better off than their parents were when they were young," 十个年轻人里有六个觉得自己的日子比父母年轻时好。
11月9号是柏林墙倒塌20周年。最近的一项民意调查显示，"One in seven Germans think they were better off when the country was divided," 每七个德国人里就有一个人认为，国家分裂时他们的生活反而更好。好的，今天我们学习的词是better off...