海水不仅不能抽走植物细胞里的水分，海水中的盐分反而会进入细胞内部，这就是所谓的反渗透。这种反渗透能力增加了细胞的强度。
Instead of freshwater moving out of the plant cells, salt from the seawater enters, reverse osmosis, and this actually strengthens the cells.
吸烟不能减轻压力，反而只会损害自己和周围人的健康。
Smoking cannot lower the pressure but only to do harm both to own health and to that of people around you.
因为这样琐碎的细目清单会掩盖一个人的真实成绩；而且，当招聘者据此提问时，万一不能深入地回答，反而会使自己难堪。
You don't want a laundry list that hides your true accomplishments — or to end up embarrassed if the interviewer asks about something and you can't speak about it in-depth.
只是狠狠地自责并不能给你带来任何好处，反而会白白消耗你的精力且打击你的信心。
Criticizing yourself is not going to make any difference. Instead it would drain your energy and dissuade you.
研究发现，送一捧花给你的妻子或是女朋友并不能得到你想要的结果，反而她还会认为这种行为说明你有事骗了她。
Giving your wife or girlfriend a bunch of flowers may not have quite the effect you desired. She may think it's a sign you're cheating, a study has revealed.
它非但不能让你更加快乐，反而“使你觉得空虚，仿佛裂成上百万块碎片，还总觉得不顺畅”。
Instead of making you happier, it can "leave you feeling emptied out, fractured into a million bits and quips, yet somehow obliterated".
当被嘲笑或者被欺负的时候，有时反而觉得是自己自找的，怪自己与别人不一样，不能适应其他人。
And when you're teased or bullied, it can seem like somehow you brought it on yourself-for being different, or for not fitting in with everybody else.
一份调查研究发现，(与疼痛相关的)语言和心理治疗不仅不能帮助人们减轻痛苦，反而会增强身体疼痛的强度。
Far from being soothing, words and counselling can actually increase the intensity of physical pain, a study finds。
我们不能嘲笑他们，反而应该同情他们。因为哈利波特系列电影是电影史上的一页灿烂的篇章（票房总收入高达54亿美元）。
We say this not to mock but to mourn, for the Potter films have been a mostly splendid enterprise (and have earned $5.4 billion at the box office).
我不是专家，这在有些情况下反而更好：因为我会提些问题，鼓动大家发言提问最终认可：为什么不能这样做？
In some ways, it was better that I wasn't an expert, because I would ask questions that helped the team to say, Why not?
延长失业救济期限远远不能起到刺激就业的效果，反而有两个负面作用。
Far from being effective as stimulus, the extension of unemployment benefits will have two negative effects on employment.
一些很聪明的人在这个过程中反而迟迟不能完成毕业论文。
Some of the more intelligent people in the program had trouble finishing their theses.
因为从历史上看，人们不能坚持下去，这样会创造出摇摆不定的效果，反而为肥胖奠定了基础。
Because historically, people don’t stick to them, which creates a yo-yo effect, which paves the way for obesity.
这些专家称：这样一个文化知识方面的“提前教育”不但不能是英国儿童赶上其他国家的同龄儿童，反而会在随后引起情感和行为方面的问题。
Far from helping British children catch up with their peers in other countries, the campaigners say, such a "head start" in literacy may cause emotional and behavioural problems later on.
在他看来，越是深入研究电池的物理化学特性，这些化学特性反而越不能解释电池到底是怎么工作的。
In his view, when you dug deeply enough into the battery's physical chemistry, that chemistry did not explain how it worked.
但一个新的研究表明，这个方法完全不能改善证人的记忆力，反而使情况更加糟糕。
But a new study suggests that far from improving recall, it makes things worse.
“不，那不能使我满意！”我嚷道，其实他那么匆忙而不作解释的回答，不但没有消除我的好奇心，反而更刺激了它。
No; that does not satisfy me! I exclaimed: and indeed there was something in the hasty and unexplanatory reply which, instead of allaying, piqued my curiosity more than ever.
这样的宣传片不仅不能起到宣传作用，反而会起负面影响。
Such promo not only cannot have publicity function, instead will play a negative influence.
真正爱你的男人，反而他会考虑很多，不能做到的，他也绝对不会轻易承诺，因为他觉得承诺出的话，就要兑现！
True love you man, but he would consider a lot of, can't do it, he will not easily commitment, because he felt promise the word, must cash!
与坐在一个空无一人的电影院的感觉不同，这并不能使你感觉自己是一个国王，反而会有一种不舒适的感觉。
Unlike sitting in an empty movie theater, which can make you feel like a king — sitting in an empty restaurant is super uncomfortable.
也不能解释为什么在玩21点时，他放弃了推理而依赖于直觉反而更加成功。
Nor why he was more successful at blackjack when he abandoned method and relied on intuition.
是不是因为武装的太厚重，反而让你再也不能感受到任何事情。
Is that the armer so thick that you can't ever fell anything anymore.
有专家称，这些披著“方便社交外衣”的大大小小的社交网路正是以帮助网民交朋友的名义生存，但是他们的存在的效果与现实大大相反，科技反而隔绝了现实生活，网路社交网站是现实世界的一个“十分蹩脚”的模板，绝对不能代替现实世界的作用。
She argues that, under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, technology is isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world.
说到这里，苏代讲了一个故事：从前有一个人，他的房子起火了，别人劝他快用水去浇灭大火，但他不听，偏抱起一捆柴草去救火，是因为他不懂得柴草不但不能灭火反而能助长火势的道理。
there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen.
许多心理测试已证明告诉别人你的目标反而使目标不能实现。
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
她的耐心使我明白逃避不能解决问题，反而会使问题变得更糟。
Her patience made me realize that escape does nothing but make one's troubles worse.
刷牙的次数不能太多，多了反而会损伤牙齿，刷牙的时间也不宜过长。
The frequency of brushing is not too much more it will damage teeth brush your teeth should not be too long a time.
刷牙的次数不能太多，多了反而会损伤牙齿，刷牙的时间也不宜过长。
The frequency of brushing is not too much more it will damage teeth brush your teeth should not be too long a time.
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