But perhaps the whole of humankind believes that everyone else is superstitious and so this absurd tradition continues between people who ought to know better, each of them fearing that they will cause offence.

Jenny, you ought to know better. I looked to you to set a good example to the others.

詹尼，你要聪明些，我期望你会成为其他人的榜样。

Charley, you ought to know better than that.

查理，你应该知道的更多的。

He ought to know better.

他应该更懂事些。

You ought to know better.

你应当更明白些。

History buff such as yourself ought to know better.

像你这样研究历史的人应该更清楚的

You ought to know better than to go swimming on such a cold day.

你不至于这么冷的天气去游泳吧。

You ought to know better than to gamble your money away.

你应该懂得不能赌博，把钱输掉。

Don't do that; you ought to know better at your age.

别干那事，你在这个年龄，你该学得乖一点了。

You ought to know better than to trust her.

你应当明白她这人不能相信。

Well, really! You ought to know better at your age!

好了，好了！像你这个年纪的人应该聪明些了！

This is definitely one that people ought to know better.

人们绝对需要好好了解这个单词的含义。

Its informality in this sense does not however mean that you just cobble it together, for I do expect cohesion, conciseness and grammaticality!

该作业的非正式形式并不意味著你可以随便拼凑，相反的，我要求文章结构紧凑、简明扼要且语法正确！

The computer she was working on was clear evidence that the Grebulons came from a far more advanced and sophisticated culture than their current vacuous state suggested, and with its aid she was able, within about half an hour, to cobble together a rough working model of the solar system.

她用的那台计算机非常先进，无疑说明格里布隆人的文明比如今这种真空状态所显示的要高级，精致很多。靠了它帮忙，崔茜卡修修补补了不到半个小时就搞出了个大致能用的太阳系模型。

Soldiers will depend on the injury-free, multi-heap that point, no sense of blood, first offense, and measurements of blood to cobble together a re-think.

战士还是要看免伤的，多堆那点血没意义，先把进攻和三围凑齐了再思索血。

Mr Tsang can usually rely on an alliance of pro-business and pro-Beijing legislators to cobble together the majorities he needs.

曾荫权通常可以依赖于由亲商界和亲北京的立法会议员组成的联盟，来凑足他所需要的多数票。

AIG's management team was scrambling on Sunday afternoon to cobble together the plan and present it to the insurer's board for approval, the people said.

知情人士称，AIG的管理层周日下午讨论修改了这一计划，并已提交给公司董事会审批。

Now that you have symfony up and running, it's time to cobble together Blahg.

现在已经使symfony启动并运行，是该整合Blahg的时候了。

But the Congress Party is taking no chances, and is busy trying to cobble together parliamentary support to ensure its survival.

不过，国大党没有心存侥幸，他们为了确保胜利正忙于在议会活动，努力获得议员们的支持。

Imagine a child in Africa trying to cobble together an educational plan out of a series of online courses. It's impossible.

试想，身在非洲的一个孩子正想方设法地从一大堆网络课程中胡乱拼凑出一个学习计划。这是不可能完成的。

Imagine a child in Africa trying to cobble together an educational plan out of a series of online courses.

试想，身在非洲的一个孩子正想方设法地从一大堆网络课程中胡乱拼凑出一个学习计划。