词汇：improvement

n. 改进，改善

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“We’ve the Lord to thank for this bath,” she said. “I personally didn’t need it, but I’m bound to say it might work an improvement where you’re concerned. You ain’t as bad-looking as I thought, now that you’re nearly clean.” By the time she got to her back porch the rain was slackening and the sun was already striking little rainbows through the sparkle of drops that still fell. Pea had walked on home, the water dripping more slowly from his hat. He never mentioned the incident to anyone, knowing it would mean unmerciful teasing if it ever got out. But he remembered it. When he lay on the porch half drunk and it floated up in his mind, things got mixed into the memory that he hadn’t even known he was noticing, such as the smell of Mary’s wet flesh. He hadn’t meant to smell her, and hadn’t made any effort to, and yet the very night after it happened the first thing he remembered was that Mary had smelled different from any other wet thing he had ever smelled. He could not find a word for what was different about Mary’s smell—maybe it was just that, being a woman, she smelled cleaner than most of the wet creatures he came in contact with. It had been more than a year since the rainstorm, and yet Mary’s smell was still part of the memory of it. He also remembered how she seemed to bulge out of her corset at the top and the bottom both.>>完整场景

San Antonio was a big improvement over Gladewater, if only because there were no smoke pots and few mosquitoes.>>完整场景

See, that's your answer. There really was no room for improvement.>>完整场景

It's a nice improvement.>>完整场景

Ben rosen:

All of us could use a little improvement, right.>>完整场景

That's not an improvement. Bill.>>完整场景

[Jackson] They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.>>完整场景