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English
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Etymology
A traditional Christian marriage vow.
Prepositional phrase
for better or worse
- No matter what the future may hold (no matter whether it is good or bad).
For better or worse, he’s the president.
2022 August 24, Kevin Roose, “We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Fewer experts are confidently predicting that we have years or even decades to prepare for a wave of world-changing A.I.; many now believe that major changes are right around the corner, for better or worse.
Translations
No matter what the future may hold
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無論如何/无论如何 (zh) (wúlùnrúhé), 不論好壞/不论好坏 (bùlùnhǎohuài)
- Dutch: in lief en leed, in voor- en tegenspoed
- Finnish: syteen tai saveen, niin tai näin (fi), oli miten oli, kävi miten kävi
- French: pour le meilleur et pour le pire (fr), pour le meilleur comme pour le pire
- German: auf Gedeih und Verderb (de)
- Greek: καλώς ή κακώς (kalós í kakós)
- Hungarian: sajnos vagy nem sajnos
- Icelandic: í gegnum súrt og sætt
- Irish: bíoch sé le do leas nó le d'aimhleas
- Italian: nel bene e nel male, nella buona e nella cattiva sorte, bene o male
- Japanese: 善かれ悪しかれ (よかれあしかれ, yokare ashikare)
- Polish: na dobre i na złe (pl)
- Portuguese: para o melhor ou para o pior, para o bem ou para o mal
- Russian: к лу́чшему и́ли ху́дшему (k lúčšemu íli xúdšemu), (what the hell) была́ не была́ (ru) (bylá ne bylá), как бы то ни́ было (ru) (kak by to ní bylo)
- Spanish: a las duras y a las maduras (colloquial), en las buenas y en las malas (colloquial), en la fortuna y en la adversidad (formal, religious)
- Vietnamese: dù tốt hoặc xấu
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