better-to-do

英['betərt'əd'uː] 美['betərt'əd'uː]
  • 较为富裕的
  • better adj.更好的;较好的adv.更好地v.使更好;改善n.更好者;更优者;下赌注者形容词good和副词well的比较级形式
  • budgeting n.编制预算动词budget的现在分词形式.
形容词 well-to-do:
  1. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

    1. A closer look, however, shows a large number of poorer countries outperforming many of the continent's richer ones, several of which do rather badly.
      然而,仔细看,我们发现很多贫穷的国家比起他们较为富裕的兄弟国做得更好,有些个富裕国家做得是在是差。