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Change log entry 76429
Processed by: richwarm (2022-11-30 03:48:57 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 72339 - submitted by 'ch_learner21' >>
有利于健康
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Editor: "beneficial" is not wrong, but we are *not* trying to provide the best word for every possible context.
Rather, we are trying to be concise.

Other potential glosses include "helpful", "conducive" and "opportune" etc., but from our point of view, they are superfluous because they make the definition longer without changing the basic meaning.

Note, however, that we do have the following entry
有利于 /to be advantageous to; to be beneficial for/
... which supplements the glosses in the entry for 有利, and matches the phrase in your example (有利于健康).
Diff:
- 有利 有利 [you3 li4] /advantageous/to have advantages/favorable/
# + 有利 有利 [you3 li4] /advantageous/to have advantages/beneficial/favorable/
+ 有利 有利 [you3 li4] /advantageous; favorable/
By MDBG 2024
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