Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

But I realize that a lot of people just want to take the easy route and do that instead.

但我后来发现，很多人只想走捷径，以手术代替其他方式。

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So you feel like you are a guest in a home instead of a visitor in a huge, impersonal museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

And you would expect that that would be a much stabler compound because, instead of plus one attracting plus one, now you have plus two attracting minus two.

可以预见,这将会是更稳定的化合物，因为不再是一价正离子吸引一价负离子，而是二价正离子吸引二价负离子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

A teacher may use it when she walks into a room where the students are playing and talking, instead of studying.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

To change a reference point from this point here being zero instead of this point here being zero.

这样就得到了,开尔文温标。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"Cupcakes are cool because they're having your own personal cake instead of having to share with a lot of people.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Mothers learn to carry preterm babies in front instead the traditional African way of carrying a baby, on the mother's back.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

So, let's try another example here, and let's try a case now where instead of dealing with a neutral molecule we have an ion, so we have c n minus.

那么，让我们来试一下另外一个例子，这次不是一个中性原子,而是一个离子，氰离子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, when the people of the North expected a speech of victory, he gave them a speech of reconstruction, instead.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

And then linked to the glycerol instead of a third fatty acid chain is a water soluble molecule, like a salt.

但连到甘油上的第三个基团不是脂肪酸链,而是一种水溶性的分子,像盐一样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

At the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, instead of chairs, they can sit on saddles as if riding a horse.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Instead of having a central bank we decided that there would be a list of banks called the National Banks.

与拥有一个中央银行不同的是,我们决定将很多银行归到,国家银行的行列中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In some cases,instead of a cast, a splint made of plastic or metal will be secured over the area to restrict movement.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

In 1717 in Paris, Lindsey Hughes reports, he went to a private house instead of the Louvre palace.

林赛·休斯曾写道,彼得大帝1717年去巴黎时,他没有住在卢浮宫而是住在一所私宅里

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He says the display was designed to look like a map of the local Washington Metro train system instead of a tree.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The new guidelines say women age twenty-one to twenty-nine only need to get a Pap test every two years instead of yearly.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

I'm just doing it with a series of switches instead of a fingerboard, which we obviously don't have-- Okay. That's fine. That's great.

只是我用的是阀键,代替圆号上很明显没有的指板,好的,很棒

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

A person with less than twenty-eight grams will now be charged with an infraction instead of a misdemeanor.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

instead of a stone dropping, nowadays there's a monkey that's falling down.

现在就不是丢石头了,而是有只猴子掉下来了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Instead of a young man full of life, they saw an old man who could not speak clearly or control his shaking.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

- She's come there hoping to escape the network of symbols that she has seen and instead she's immersed with a new network of them.

她为了逃避，所见到的符号网络,各种驿车号而来，不过她又被一种，all，those，post，horns—,取而代之的网络所沉浸。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Studies support the theory that there are several causes, instead of a single environmental cause or genetic problem.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

If I told you that I decided to buy a greyhound instead of a pit bull because I wanted a dog of a gentle temperament, nobody would scream that I'm a dog racist involving--and--but honestly, it's a stereotype.

如果我告诉你我决定,买一条灵缇犬，而不是斗牛犬,因为我想要一条温驯的狗，没有人会说我是狗品种主义者,但说实话，这就是刻板印象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They were wrong. Instead,they sailed onto rocks near a small group of islands southwest of England's Atlantic coast.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

This thing's nice because rather than do "if" and "and and" or "or or" and all of this, you can instead enumerate things a little more cleanly, albeit apparently at the expense of more white space.

这个东西是不错的，因为它不用“if“和“and，and“,或者“or，or“所有的这些，你可以用枚举来更清楚地表达它，虽然表面上它用了更多的空格。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

instead of just picking up a book and trying to learn English vocabulary and English grammar structures.

而不只是拿起书，努力学习英语单词和语法结构。

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