之后，他还让前来采访的媒体记者自己拨通了电话，以此证明这项新奇的发明的确有效，而并非是一个精心设下的唬人的骗局。

He then let reporters make their own calls to verify that the invention actually worked and that they weren't the victims of an elaborate hoax.

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保险公司称，杨燕在购买保险之时就已患上腰痛，而并非购买保险之后。

The insurance company said she had bought the insurance when she was suffering from the backache, not after.

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而四个世纪之后的今天，我们已经知道了地球只是围绕着一颗并非显赫的太阳旋转的小小星球，我们的太阳处在银河系的一隅，而据科学家估算，这样的银河系大约有一千二百五十亿个。

Now, four centuries later, we know that the Earth is a small planet circling a minor sun on the edge of just one of an estimated 125 billion galaxies.

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