So far, ALADDIN's researchers have limited themselves to tests that simulate disasters such as earthquakes rather than warfare; saving life, then, rather than taking it.

到目前为止，“阿拉丁”项目的研究者已经做了一些有限的灾难模仿测试，比如地震，而不是战争。都是在挽救生命，而非夺取生命。

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The tax- deductibility of mortgage interest encourages people to buy houses rather than rent flats, buy bigger properties rather than smaller ones and therefore to spread out.

按揭利息的减税政策鼓励人们买房而非租房，而且鼓励买大房产而非小房产，所以人们越来越往郊区搬。

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But GDP will rise next year by 2.1% rather than 2.3%; and in 2012 by 2.6% rather than 2.8%.

但是明年GDP将仅上升2.1%而不是2.3%，2012年GDP将增长2.6%，而非2.8%。

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Experts at the Census Bureau estimate that more than sixty percent of Hispanic growth was from "natural increase" rather than migration.

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In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

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It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.

一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。

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It's like a child, raised with hope rather than expectation, love rather than fiscal projection.

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And so, today, we have mail carriers rather than mail men and flight attendants rather than stewardesses, etc.

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Conservatives blame sin, rather than syndromes, and cultural decline, rather than economic dislocation.

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