The advantages of the plan outweigh its drawbacks.

那计划的优点胜缺点。

A concern for safety overrode all other considerations.

对安全的关切胜所有其应考虑的事。

The merits of your plan outweigh the defects.

定的计划其优点胜缺点。

I prefer Venice to Rome.

我喜欢威尼斯胜罗马。

A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.

严厉的责难胜温和的欺骗。

A miser loves gold above his life.

一个守财奴爱财胜生命。

Being beaten by a newcomer has really taken the wind out of his sails.

被一个新来的人胜, 觉很窝囊。

His reticence is more revealing than his speech.

的沉默所表露的要胜的言词。

Lisbon outshone Venice as a mart for oriental spices.

里斯本作为东方香料市场胜威尼斯。

He towers above his fellow students in mathematical ability.

的数学才能胜的同学。

He has no superior in this respect.

在这个方面没人能胜。

Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.

胜那被时光涂脏的石头。

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

一把好日子胜一蒲式耳的学问。

The careful study of a few books is better than the desultory reading of many.

精心研究几部书胜随意地读许多书。

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

出言慎重胜口若悬河。

A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

朋友向皱眉胜敌人向微笑。

It is better to die of repletion than to endure hunger.

饱死胜挨饿。

One good argument weighs down eighteen bad ones.

正理一条胜歪理十八条。

He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.

能言善辩, 胜最好的演说家。

He excels all other composers of his period.

胜同时代的所有其作曲家。