That is to say, what we're taking up this week, is as much really the history of criticism as literary theory.

也就是说，我们这周要讲的，与其说是文学理论，不如说是文学评论的历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He is so pinched and straightened in his environment that his leaving is more an avoidance than an embrace.

在如此艰难的处境下他挣扎求生,离开对他而言与其说是寻求解脱,不如说是逃避。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's more like a word processor than it is a simple text editor.

与其说是文本编辑器，还不如说是一个文字处理软件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They are rather images, symbols, artifacts.

不如说是形象和象征或意象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In other words, for Hobbes, authority and relations of authority do not arise naturally among us, but are rather, again, like civil science itself, the product of contrivance or art.

换句话说，对于霍布斯，权力和权力关系,并不自然而然产生于我们之中，不如说是，像平民科学一样，是发明或艺术的产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Rather, science is the highest form of art.

不如说是，科学是艺术的最高形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选