The advantages of the plan outweigh its drawbacks.

那计点胜过缺点。

A concern for safety overrode all other considerations.

对安全关切胜过所有其他应考虑事情。

The merits of your plan outweigh the defects.

你制定计其点胜过缺点。

I prefer Venice to Rome.

我喜欢威尼斯胜过罗马。

A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.

严厉责难胜过温和欺骗。

A miser loves gold above his life.

一个守财奴爱财胜过生命。

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

被一个新来人胜过, 他觉很窝囊。

His reticence is more revealing than his speech.

他沉默所表露要胜过他言词。

Lisbon outshone Venice as a mart for oriental spices.

里斯本作为东方香料市场胜过威尼斯。

He towers above his fellow students in mathematical ability.

他数才能胜过他同。

He has no superior in this respect.

在这个方面没人能胜过他。

Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.

远胜过那被时光涂脏石头。

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

一把好日子胜过一蒲式耳。

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

精心研究几部书胜过随意地读许多书。

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

出言慎重胜过口若悬河。

A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

朋友向你皱眉胜过敌人向你微笑。

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

饱死胜过挨饿。

One good argument weighs down eighteen bad ones.

正理一条胜过歪理十八条。

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

他能言善辩, 胜过最好演说家。

He excels all other composers of his period.

他胜过同时代所有其他作曲家。