Yeah, sell by and best by. For example spices might have a best by date.

嗯，保质期和最佳食用日期。比如，调料可能会标明最佳食用日期。

The best by date is just about freshness, flavor.

最佳食用日期指的是食品的新鲜度和味道。

I've been dogged by the competition, bested by the competition a couple times.

竞争一直追随着我我有过成功。

And another thing is people confuse the best by date with the expiring date.

另外，人们会混淆最佳食用日期和到期日期。

Reverend H.K. Williams said it best: by failing to prepare, you're preparing to fail.

H.K. Williams 说得好：没有准备，你就是在准备失败。

STEP 2 Keep her hands and feet looking their best by getting her a manicure and a pedicure.

为她进行美甲，让她的双手和双脚看上去达到最佳状态。

The the offenses were bested by two middling defenses.

进攻被两个中等防守击败。

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose !

道德是牵制人类的最好手段！

And I think that this is summed up best by a poet from the 15th century in India named Kabir.

我认为，15 世纪印度一位名叫 Kabir 的诗人总结得最好。

Bring me a couple of your best by sundown Friday.

星期五晚上之前把你最好的点子拿给我。

Wow, I know when I've been bested by a person more difficult than myself.

哇，我知道什么时候我被一个比我更难对付的人打败了。

And then I'm bested by a little bedtime gurgle cup!

然后我败给了小水杯上的脑筋急转弯！

His story was picked out as the best by the judges.

【pick】他的小说被评委们评为第一名。

So again, the favorite just means the person in the family who is liked the best by the parents.

所以还是那句话，宠就是家里最受父母喜欢的人。

What accounts for the sudden meteoric rise in a sport which, after all, is played best by people who are unusually tall?

这项毕竟还是由高得出奇的人打得最好的运动是如何迅速兴起呢？

I did my best by making such researches as he wanted me to make; I took no little pleasure in it.

我尽力按照他的要求进行研究； 我从中得到不少乐趣。

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

最好的学习方法就是多读多写，最有价值的课程是你自学得到的。

Workers delicately using various cleaning methods plan to have the spacecraft looking its best, by the 50th anniversary of its April 16 1972 flight.

工人们小心翼翼地使用各种清洁方法，计划在1972年四月十六日航天器飞行五十周年时让它看起来焕然一新。

Some of the bottled water that's been distributed in Newark, New Jersey was past best by date. The state officials say the bottled water isn't dangerous.

新泽西州纽瓦克市分发的一些瓶装水已经过期。该州官员表示，这些瓶装水并不危险。

Most students learn best by engaging in frequent and even heated debate, not by scribbling down a professor's often unsatisfactory summary of complicated issues.

大多数学生通过频繁甚至激烈的辩论来学习，而不是草草写下教授对复杂问题的不满意的总结。