Some water experts are now demanding that existing infrastructure be used in smarter ways rather than building new facilities, which is increasingly considered the option of last, not first, resort.

一些水资源专家现在在要求要更明智地使用现有的基础设施，而不是建造新的设施，它逐渐被认为是最后而不是第一选择。

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It now seems a probability rather than just a possibility.

这件事似乎十拿九稳，而不是仅有可能。

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The emphasis of university programs today is now on the practical and the utilitarian, rather than on a general education or on personal development.

现在大学课程的重点是实用和功利，而不是通识教育或个人发展。

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People could now see battlefield deaths as captured by a camera rather than an artist's pen or paintbrush.

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They're associated now with events in the life of the new nation rather than being grounded in the cycles of nature.

他们现在同一个国家的新生联系起来,而不再是简单的自然循环。

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He claims to be studying and learning rather than producing right now; and there's a problem with just studying and learning, and it's a problem that Milton can't avoid.

他坚持学习而不是创作;,但这种单纯地学习存在一个问题，这是个弥尔顿无法回避的问题。

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Increased stimulus starting next year rather than now was not what investors were anticipating, after the recent rhetoric of the Prime Minister.

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Mr Obama should use it as a threat, rather than implement it now.

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It is a country where the black economy is the real economy, where bribery rather than obedience is now the means of survival.

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