a shade better
He is, if anything, a shade better today.
如果说他有什么不同，她今天只是好了一点点。
She feels a shade better than yesterday.
她感觉比昨天好点。
He says that the government narrowly beat its 2010 deficit target of 9.3% of GDP. A contraction of GDP of 0.2% was also a shade better than forecast.
他说，政府强差人意地将2010赤字目标固定在相当于GDP的9.3%，相当于GDP的0.2%的收缩也比预报的要好那么一点点。