Businessmen prefer to write e-mails to communicate with each other rather than make phone calls.

商人们更喜欢写电子邮件来相互沟通，而不是打电话。

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Ask questions rather than make statements.

提出问题而不是作出陈述。

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And rather than make the wrong choice, we end up doing nothing.

而为了避免出错，我们最终一事无成。

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But one of them would make war rather than let the nation live.

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In other words, doesn't historicism open the canon and indeed make the process of reading, the experience of reading, archival and omnivorous rather than canonical?

换言之，难道不是历史相对论破坏了标准,甚至让阅读的过程，阅读的经历，变得如档案般无所不包，而不是遵守规范？

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It's rather than working on isolating the parts and trying make one part of your body big,

这不是单独练习各个部分，试图把某一部分的肌肉练得很大，

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Rather than make one piece of a wireless system, Pera decided to make the whole thing.

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Rather than make one machine that was bad at everything Apple made two machines.

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Rather than make a futile appeal to the Supreme Court, McVeigh again accepted the sentence.

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