英文短语：be better off

be better/worse off (doing sth)

to be in a better or worse situation(做某事)会较好/较糟

She’s better off without him.

他不在身边她更快乐。

We can’t be any worse off than we are already.

我们的状况已经糟得不能再糟了。

The weather was so bad we’d have been better off staying at home.

天气太糟了，我们要是待在家里就好了。

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另外该短语还有一个含义：

be well/better/badly, etc. ’off

used to say how much money sb has (用 于表示经济情况)

Families will be better off under the new law.

这项新法律将使每个家庭的经济较前宽裕。

They are both comfortably off.

他们俩的生活都很宽裕。

补充表达

off and on/ on and off

在上学期教的大学英语中频繁看到这个短语，看着复杂，其实意思很简单：

If something happenson and off, oroff and on, it happens occasionally, or only for part of a period of time, not in a regular or continuous way. 有时

I was still working on and off as a waitress to support myself.

我仍然有时做服务员来维持生活。

It’s been raining on and off all morning.

雨断断续续下了一早上。

I’ve been learning French for 2 years off and on.

他断断续续学2年法语了。

something’s off/up [口语常用表达]

This is to say that something is not right, or not the way it should be. 不对劲; 出事了

You know something’s up.

你知道有些事要发生了。

Something’s up, we should hurry up and go to help them.

出事了，我们得赶紧加快然后去帮助他们。