better half

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It is your duty, lest you be ostracized by the better half of society.
这是你的责任。唯恐你被更好的一半社会放逐。
Lower your criteria for a better half, then you'll see a sea of fishes and can reel one into your boat!
把你的择偶标准降低一点，你就会发现身边原来有一大批优秀男士，你从中定能找到自己的白马王子。
He took his family out of town for a month in June and again in September, and also made short pleasure trips with his wife – "my missis" or "my better half".
六月和九月的时候他把家人接到镇上住了一个月，还和妻子去了几次短途旅行，称之为“老婆”或者“我的爱人”。

Yet he felt that even with their lies and half truths the old beliefs were better than the moral emptiness of the modern South.
Roughly half of you are doing better than average and roughly half of you are doing worse than average.
大约有一半同学学得比别人好,有一半同学学得比别人差。
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So if I had drawn that better it would look as if this was half of this distance, but I didn't draw it well.
如果我画得准确的话,这段应该是整段长度的一半,不过我没画好
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But in December 2011 the High Court upheld the requirement that a foreign spouse learn basic English before joining his better half.
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