| 单词 | rather than |
| 释义 | rather thanrather than instead of 而不是 I think you’d call it a lecture rather than a talk. 我说啊，这是训斥，不是谈话。 Rather than go straight on to university why not get some work experience first? 与其直接上大学，为什么不先取得一点工作经验呢？ Bryson decided to quit rather than accept the new rules. 布赖森决定辞职而不接受新规定。 Examples from the Corpus rather than• Bryson decided to quit rather than accept the new rules.• I prefer cooking with olive oil rather than butter.• Lovers, for example, are generally kept apart by wars or political circumstances rather than by simple misunderstandings.• And two who tip the scales to the angelic side are proposing to use bombing to plant forests rather than destroy them.• Rather than driving around all day looking for somewhere to park, why don't you take a bus into town?• Rather than fly directly to LA, why not stop in San Francisco first?• We merely suggest or advise rather than give orders.• There is no important theory-based reason why these countries rather than others were selected.• Mr O'Connor, however, stressed the need for more effective policing rather than police numbers.• It presumes that reality is dynamic rather than static, and therefore seeks relationships between ideas, to aim at synthesis.• It points us to the theistic hypothesis rather than to the necessity hypothesis.• Birds excrete uric acid rather than urea because it is an insoluble solid.• She uses lemon rather than vinegar in her salad dressings. → rather than at rather(2) |
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