Your cooking is better than mine, and I certainly prefer not having to bother to cook at all.
你的菜煮得比我好,我当然就不想班门弄斧了。
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
良药苦口利于病。
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.