It would be better to transport the goods by rail rather than by road.

用铁路运送这批货物会比用公路好。

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Music shops should arrange their recordings in simple alphabetical order, rather than by category.

音像店应按照简单的字母顺序摆放其唱片，而不是按类别。

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They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instinct and assumption rather than by explicit decision, which means that they've created a culture.

他们通过直觉和假设而非明确的决定，接受优先级并遵循程序，这意味着他们创造了一种文化。

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For example, Hooks' parents always insisted that whites address them as Mr.and Mrs.Hooks, rather than by their first names, as was the custom when whites spoke to blacks.

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Rather than by forming an image or a picture you put electrodes on the surface of the body and measure the electrical potential as a function of position on the body.

它并不对人进行直接的造影,而是将电极放到身体表面,通过测量该位置电势能,表征该部位的生理状态

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He would also regard the peculiar American practice of elections rather than the Greek practice of appointing political offices by lot.

他也将关注,奇怪的美式选举方式,那有别于透过抽签决定的,希腊式指派政治官位模式。

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In fact, businesses can guide consumers to sustainability by stealth, rather than by doctrine.

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Its governing council will meet in person that day rather than by telephone, its August custom.

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Education's share of GNP is determined by political considerations rather than by any market process.

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