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。

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and your co-worker continues to discuss how to do the work rather than actually doing the work,

但你的同事仍然在滔滔不绝地谈论如何着手工作而不实际地做，

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I then click on the shell, rather than hitting F5, try and run it and say, it's not doing what I thought I should do.

然后我点击了命令解释程序，而不是按F5，我运行了程序而它，并没有按照我认为的那样做。

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so rather than doing shopping online or paying the premium for getting it internationally,

与其在网上购物提前预付买国际化品牌的东西，

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rather than take a computer science person who's already doing a lot of programming,

比起那些正在做项目的计算机达人来说，

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I was going to start showing you some examples, but I think, rather than doing that, I'm going to stop here, I'm going to give you two minutes back of time, but I want to just point out to you that we are going to have fun next week, because I'm going to show you what in the world that has to do with efficiency.

我想再给你们讲解一些例子，但是我想想还是算了吧，给你们两分钟休息时间,但是我想告诉你们,我们下周的课,会很有意思,我会告诉你们,到底是什么决定了效率。

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