Instead of despairing at the discomfort of rain and mud, the crowd rejoiced in its power to resist the weather."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

And instead of this continual anticipation of writing something great, Milton's able to look back and find closure in something already written.

他并没有继续着写一些伟大的作品，而是追溯了过去，并在已完成的作品中寻找着终结。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

and instead of looking down on them and seeing them as a burden,

而不是瞧不起我们，或者把我们当成是一种负担，

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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

That's a good thing. And instead of 17 million calls, I have 1800 calls.

真好，我们只调用了1800次函数,而不是一开始的1百70万次。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If you use an alcohol-based product instead of soap and water, make sure it contains at least sixty percent alcohol.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

So, using the terminology of chemists, which is a good thing to do, because in this course we are all chemists, we want to make sure that we're not using just the physical description of the numbers, but that we can correlate it to 1 0 0 what we understand as orbitals, and instead of 1, 0, 0, 1s we call this the 1 s orbital.

我们最好学会，利用这些化学术语，因为我们这课,就是关于化学的，我们,不仅要知道，这些数字,的物理描述，还要能把它,和我们知道的轨道联系起来，我们叫它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And,it means that transgenic marmosets can be produced from breeding instead of by the lengthy process of injecting fertilized eggs.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

And instead of feeling uncomfortable, you can express your discomfort by saying,

要是这个玩笑让你感觉不自在，你可以这样表达你的不满：

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And President Lincoln sent thousands of troops to chase Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, instead of helping McClellan at Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

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

Instead of remaining in Paris, as many American writers did, Faulkner returned to Mississippi and began his serious writing.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

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

Instead,northern pines and hardwood trees will rise on the higher half of the land, which is called Upland.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

And so instead of defining efficiency the way you've got it written there, I'm going to define what's called something different for a refrigerator which is called the coefficient of performance.

现在我们不用,效率的那个定义，我给出一个,有关制冷机的,新的定义,叫做制冷系数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Harvard's Nicholas Lange says the team looked instead at the chemical and electrical pathways that link the different parts of the brain.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

And, you can see that fluorine, instead of four, it's about 4.19. But, it's as you would expect.

看到课本，不是，而是4。19，但是，如你们所想。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Instead of fine print that hides the truth, we need credit card forms and statements that have plain language in plain sight."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Even more dangerously, from the standpoint of anybody who likes poetry, he talks instead of "statement," meaning science, and "pseudo-statement," meaning poetry.

更危险的是，在任何一个热爱诗歌的人看来，他转用“陈述“指代科学，用“伪陈述“指代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Instead,I spent all my time, and a lot of my money, trying to build the perfect microscope.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

- 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

Another story goes that when he was a boy playing cowboys and Indians, he shouted "bing" instead of "bang" after a make-believe gunshot.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

So for an example, he argued that the prison system needs to be reformed because instead of focusing on notions of justice and retribution what we should do is focus instead on questions of reinforcing good behaviors and punishing bad ones.

举个例子，他认为监狱体系需要改革,因为人们不应关注公正与赎罪,而应当去关注对良好行为的强化,以及对不良行为的惩罚。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So the troops and supplies were put on a fast civilian ship, instead of a slower warship.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And those who would have been driving can look at the scenery instead of the road.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

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。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

These include natural and organic methods to control harmful insects and weeds instead of using chemicals.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

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。

如果想提高英语水平 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人