faired

基本解釋

Even General Motors (GM), Ford’s main home-grown rival, has faired better of late.
即便是福特在國內(nèi)的主要對手通用汽車，最近也有所好轉(zhuǎn)。
Compared with college graduates, the increase margin of master degree graduates faired slightly better and we saw an increase by about $50 during1985-1995 and around $75 during 1995-2005.
與大學(xué)畢業(yè)生相比，碩士畢業(yè)生的增長幅度要稍微好一些，分別出現(xiàn)了1985-1995年間約50美元及1995-2005年間約75美元的增長。
For instance, the subjects faired poorly on the last test of the day they took during week three as compared with that same test during week 1.
例如，受試者在第三個星期裡工作日的最後一個任務(wù)相比於第一個星期同一任務(wù)的表現(xiàn)滿意度。

However, it is still worth looking at how the teams have faired so far against the expectations associated with their early season fixtures.
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Our suspicion is that may be alleviated when full motion controls are baked in, but we certainly could have faired better with a traditional controller at the time.
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On the Democratic side, Giuliani's fellow New Yorker Hillary Clinton, who you heard just then, faired much better, although her party's Florida primary had a lot less at stake.
NPR: Sunshine State Smiles on McCain

Something or someone that is fair is reasonable, right, and just.
fairly
A fair amount, degree, size, or distance is quite a large amount, degree, size, or distance.
A fair guess or idea about something is one that is likely to be correct.
If you describe someone or something as fair, you mean that they are average in standard or quality, neither very good nor very bad.
Someone who is fair, or who has fair hair, has light-coloured hair.
Fair is also a combining form.
Fair skin is very pale and usually burns easily.
Fair is also a combining form.
When the weather is fair, it is quite sunny and not raining.
A county, state, or country fair is an event where there are, for example, displays of goods and animals, and amusements, games, and competitions.
A fair is an event at which people display and sell goods, especially goods of a particular type.
&rarrsee also trade fair
in a fair way correctly
absolutely or squarely quite
really or very
You use fair enough when you want to say that a statement, decision, or action seems reasonable to a certain extent, but that perhaps there is more to be said or done.
If you say that someone won a competition fair and square, you mean that they won honestly and without cheating.