| 1. | It 's better to have one eye than have none .
独眼总比全瞎好。 |
| 2. | Well, it's better than gloomy .
好吧，这总比心情沉闷好。 |
| 3. | Poverty is preferable to ill-health .
贫穷总比不健康好。 |
| 4. | Being late is better than no act .
迟做总比不做的好。 |
| 5. | A later is better than none .
有总比没有好。 |
| 6. | Two people working together achieve more than one person working alone .
两个脑袋总比一个脑袋强。 |
| 7. | "that would be better than doing nothing here," returned the colonel .
“这总比不研究好吧，”上校反驳他说。 |
| 8. | It would be hazardous, but no more than waiting here for certain detection .
这是冒险的行为，但总比坐以待毙好些。 |
| 9. | Good-humoured, talkative, he prefers any company rather than none .
这位脾气随和、喜欢聊天的先生，认为有人做伴总比没有人好。 |
| 10. | Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour .
两个人总比一个人好，因为二人劳碌同得美好的效果。 |
