She had started to devote her energies to teaching rather than performing.
她已经开始将精力投入到教学而不是表演中。
Rather than put him in the hospital, she had been caring for him at home.
她没有把他送进医院，而是一直在家里照料他。
Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to proximity rather than to any community of taste.
麦克菲尔一家和身为传教士的戴维森一家在船上早已亲密无间，这是由于他们走进彼此，而不是因为任何志趣的共享。
The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.
岩石滑得像个球，他们无法爬行，只能匍匐前进。
He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
他向上游游去，但还是被水冲了下去，流速比他预料的要快得多。
I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must meet within your journey.
我宁死，也不愿让你在旅途中冒这样大的危险。
Rather than resenting the newcomers, many Irish were proud that their country had become a place people wanted to enter rather than leave.
比起憎恨新来者，许多爱尔兰人更多的是为此感到自豪，因为他们的国家已经成为人们巴望着想进入而不是离开的地方。
The results showed memory performance dipped markedly once they had passed through a doorway, rather than when they covered the same distance but remained in the same room.
研究结果显示，一旦参与者通过一扇门后，他们的记忆力表现会明显下降。而只要他们还保持在同一个房间内，就算是同样的行走距离，他们的记忆力表现都会更好。
The man eventually stepped forward: he turned out to be 51, rather than 40, and had served for six years rather than 30-but he is worried about immigration.
该名男子最终站出来说：他实际年龄51岁，而非40岁，并且曾服役6年而不是30年，但是他对移民表示担心。
National output had grown by a heady 1.2% rather than the 0.6% it had forecast for the second quarter of 2010, and by 0.8% rather than 0.6% in the three months to September.
全国产出量已令人兴奋地增长了1.2%，而不是2010年二季度曾预测的0.6%，三季度全国产出量增长了0.8%，而不是0.6%。
So we had to make the decision very early on to crowdsource rather than automate the process.
所以我们必须很早就做出明确的决定用众包而不用自动化处理工序。
Although he had been trapped by an aftershock rather than the initial earthquake, the man is the longest survivor so far under the rubble.
虽然困住这名男子的不是最初的大地震，而是一次余震，但他已经成为被埋得最久的幸存者。
From her grandmother, she had learned that emeralds looked better with pink saris rather than green.
她在她祖母身上就曾学到，绿宝石和粉红色而不是绿色的莎莉服更搭配。
Had I said "highlighted in some way" rather than "displayed in gray," I would be running the risk of writing a worthless specification.
如果我说的是“以某种方式突出显示”而不是“以灰色显示”，那我将冒险写下无意义的规范。
At the station in Seattle I had inexplicably opted to sit in ordinary plastic seats rather than sets of regal, oak-carved benches.
在西雅图火车站我不可思议地选择坐在普通的塑料座椅上，而没有去坐更气派的橡木长椅。
Then someone had the bright idea of testing chimps on other chimps' faces, rather than our own.
然后有人就想了个好点子，让黑猩猩辨认另一个黑猩猩的脸，而不是辨认我们的人脸。
We had the Peking duck, which was expertly carved rather than hacked and was served with little pancakes.
我们点了北京烤鸭，这回不是劈的，是专业切割的，就着小小的薄饼。
To accomplish this I have had other people suggest agenda items for meetings rather than selecting all the items myself.
为了做到这一点我让其他人对议程提出建议，而不是我一个人说了算。
Gates soon seemed like someone a friend of mine, rather than I myself, had once been preoccupied by.
盖茨很快就变得像一个朋友，而不再是先前我全身心关注的对象了。
Mr. Buffet was also asked whether he wishes he had been born rich, rather than have to work his way up.
还有人问巴菲特说，他是否希望自己生来就很富有，因而不必通过努力就能过上好日子。
The approval follows an expedited procedure which was based mainly on mock-ups of how the vaccines were expected to behave if bird flu rather than swine flu had sparked a pandemic.
批准程序得到加速，该程序主要是基于如果是禽流感而不是猪流感引发了传染病，疫苗会产生何种反应的模型之上。
It acknowledges that BP had begun to tackle safety problems at the refinery before disaster struck, but suggests the firm had concentrated on the form, rather than the substance, of regulations.
委员会认为BP在灾难发生前就业已着手处理炼油厂的安全问题，但暗示该公司只注重规章条例的形式而非内容。
As the scale of their exposure was revealed they switched tack to argue that they had a liquidity, rather than a solvency, problem.
当他们的风险敞口程度被披露之后他们又转头辩解说自己遇到的是流动性问题而不是偿付能力问题。
Given his limited time with the squad, however, it is Capello, rather than his players, who has had to adapt most.
当然鉴于卡佩罗带队的时间有限，相与其说是球员，还不如说是卡佩罗更适应了球队。
Nevertheless, both sets of rocks were angular, indicating that they had been carried atop the ice, rather than bulldozed in front of it.
然而，两个岩石群都棱角分明，这表明它们被携带时位于冰块顶部而不是前方。
I asked him why his family had chosen to travel rather than visit relatives over the holiday.
我问他为什么他家春节选择外出旅游而不是去亲戚家拜年。
I asked him why his family had chosen to travel rather than visit relatives over the holiday.
我问他为什么他家春节选择外出旅游而不是去亲戚家拜年。
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