"One of the biggest differences I see between Western and Chinese parents is that Chinese parents assume strength rather than fragility."

VOA: special.2011.02.17

And rather than looking it as selfish-- some people may feel this ease way-- and rather than looking it as selfish i.e. -- equal immoral.

不要把它看作自私-,有人可能会这样简单考虑-,不该把自私等同于不道德。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And that's because I've left her to do it and to the school rather than me interfering.

那是因为我让她自己去做，去上学，而不是我干涉的。

学习靠自觉 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A short time later,John Carter, the Princess and their friend, the green Martian woman Sola, attempt to escape rather than face death.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

So to just preface what we're going to do next time, what would happen if I wanted to do sort, and rather than in sorting the entire list at once, I broke it into pieces, and sorted the pieces, and then just figured out a very efficient way to bring those two pieces and merge them back together again?

所以为了引导下一次,我们要讲的内容,如果我想做排序,而且不是一次吧整个列表排完,会发生什么，我把它拆成小的列表,然后把各个小列表排序,接着用高效的方法再把小的列表？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He also said: "We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."

VOA: special.2009.08.30

So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific , and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.

他是首先将美国赋予神话色彩，而不去将它具体化，然后他通过寻找自我认同感的行为进入了自己的神话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It makes sense for people to sing rather than say these words, because the emotions are so huge, the conflicts are so large and so real."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

He claims to be studying and learning rather than producing right now; and there's a problem with just studying and learning, and it's a problem that Milton can't avoid.

他坚持学习而不是创作;,但这种单纯地学习存在一个问题，这是个弥尔顿无法回避的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And the other would accept war, rather than let it die.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Last week, you'll be writing your second paper and I'd rather spend time on that than doing any outside reading.

最后一周，你们会写第二篇论文,我宁愿花时间在那上面,而不愿做一些课外阅读。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

On supporting local leadership and ideas, rather than imposing our own."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

These anachronisms and confused chronologies in the patriarchal stories are the rule rather than the exception in their view, and they are evidence of a very late date of composition.

在他们看来，这些年代错误和混乱的时间线,在族长故事中是普遍现象而不是例外，明显是十分近代的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Rather than try to bring a lot of infrastructure to them and expect them to learn how to use the Internet, the idea was to make a technology that even Grandma could use, figuring that Grandma could probably walk up to a box and push a button."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

No, they come from the polis when its laws are good and therefore when what the government provides is eunomia rather than the opposite.

不是,它们来源于古希腊的城邦,当法律完善之时,也意味着优秀的政府,而非恶政当道

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And the crumbs, rather than being like dense and mushy like white bread, it was this open-celled, almost honey-combed crumb.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

There's a very simple reason why real estate tends to be held in limited partnerships rather than corporations and that reason is the corporate profits tax.

人们之所以,通过有限合伙的形式来持有商业房产,而不是以公司的形式来持有商业房产,其原因非常简单,那就是公司利润税

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Analysts say defense spending is changing along with strategies - with an emphasis on intelligence and deterrence rather than on combat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

He presents himself, in other words, as a human being of unparalleled piety and devotion who will risk life itself rather than quit the post that has been given to him.

他呈现的自我，换句话说，是极度虔诚敬神的人类,甚至压下自己的生命作赌注,也不愿放弃这个天赐的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"We also feel that former child soldiers should be given assistance and be quickly reunited with their families rather than kept in detention."

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

In the coordination game, where the idea is to try and get people to coordinate on a particular equilibria rather than on another equilibria, or worse still, to be uncoordinated entirely.

在协调博弈中,领导力的作用就是促成人们达成,某个特定均衡而不是其他均衡,甚至是完全缺乏协调的混乱状态

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That is the way that fault operates as well." In other cases, the plates may move up and down, rather than from side to side.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Rather than by forming an image or a picture you put electrodes on the surface of the body and measure the electrical potential as a function of position on the body.

它并不对人进行直接的造影,而是将电极放到身体表面,通过测量该位置电势能,表征该部位的生理状态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He adds that,unfortunately, post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have also preserved the Soviet system in which historians are funded by the state, rather than private foundations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So in simply the interests of reflecting the plurality of our own departments, CE we tend to use these terms, rather than BC and AD.

所以为了表现宗教多样性，我们不用BC和AD，而用BCE和。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

For example, Hooks' parents always insisted that whites address them as Mr.and Mrs.Hooks, rather than by their first names, as was the custom when whites spoke to blacks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The way God speaks to us in that place, and the way God care for us and provides for us is really the source of control rather than being ourselves.

上帝在那里和我们对话，上帝关爱我们，满足我们所需,这一切证明，上帝才是最初的控制者，而不是我们自己。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That Obama will listen to his allies and act in cooperation with them, rather than listen to them and go ahead and do what he wants to do anyway."

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Passion seems to lie in coldness rather than heat, lies exactly in the restraining and disciplining of passion.

激情似乎存在于寒冷而不是酷热里，恰恰存在于,对激情的抑制。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In other words, doesn't historicism open the canon and indeed make the process of reading, the experience of reading, archival and omnivorous rather than canonical?

换言之，难道不是历史相对论破坏了标准,甚至让阅读的过程，阅读的经历，变得如档案般无所不包，而不是遵守规范？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选