The Better Off Point的意思|示意

The point is obvious: the vast majority of people are happy to be alive, and the more time they get on earth, the better off they feel they'll be.

道理很清楚：绝大多数人很乐意活下去，他们在地球上生活的时间越长，感觉就越好。

In America, a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of immigrants in the population made the native-born 0.05% better off.

在美国，移民在人口中所占比例每增加一个百分点，本土出生的人口生活水平就会提高0.05%。

The point is that, if all you know are recipes, you're no better off once you leave the tiny domain where the recipes work.

要点在于，如果您所知道的都是处方，那么一旦离开处方起作用的小领域，您就束手无策了。

"Despite the recession, on average, Britons are financially and materially better off than at any other point in history," he told the conference in Birmingham.

“尽管在衰退，平均而言，英国人无论从财富还是物质上都处于历史上最好的水平，”他在伯明翰的会议上说道。

Even though customers will hate it at first, the average smartphone user is better off at this point.

虽然刚开始用户会很讨厌这么做，但是有一点对于普通的智能手机用户还是很好的。

The rivalry got the job done in double-quick time and stimulated better and better ways of sequencinggenomes—to the point where a bacterium can now be knocked off in a day or so.

在竞争的带动下，基因测序工作进展的很快，并且激发了更好的测序手段—一个细菌的基因可以在一天左右的时间里被测定。