But,in his words, "A smart entrepreneur should spend his time developing the business rather than the business plan."
VOA: special.2009.06.26
The disobedience happens in a rather backhanded way.
有趣的是,这种违背,以一种令人讽刺的方式发生。
It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.
一般来说,回答最好是完整的句子,而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。
"For people who were looking for a dramatic break in American foreign policy it is rather hard to identify it,".
VOA: standard.2009.12.29
In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.
这样,我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。
understands that a Turkey inside the European Union, is in Greek interests, rather than Turkey outside the Union."
VOA: standard.2010.04.15
The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry, in Crane.
基督教信仰和践行的衰败,在克莱恩看来,并不是损失,反而是诗歌新生的机会。
Many energy experts favor the development of electric vehicles rather than a heavy investment in biofuels.
VOA: standard.2009.09.02
Well, that's a rather dramatic example, but the same sort of thing in principle can happen to all of us.
这是非常戏剧性的例子,但同样的事原则上会发生在所有人身上。
He says the launch delay at this late stage appears political rather than technical, since it comes just a day after Presidents Obama and Medvedev discussed the issue in Singapore.
VOA: standard.2009.11.16
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。
"There's some change in the mood." "I wouldn't say this is radical. Actually,automobile drivers have been a rather cohesive force in Russia, and this is not the first time this is happening.
VOA: standard.2010.05.19
Women whose lives are mostly held in the private sphere rather than a public one are never gonna be taken in for state torture because they aren't actors on the political and social theme.
一些妇女,她们的生活处于,隐秘和不公开的状态,“国家酷刑“从来不会把她们算进去,因为在政治和社会层面上,她们并非活跃分子。
What the vaccine would aim to do is achieve that in a much more rapid process rather than losing many people's lives and people experiencing a lot of illness before they develop immunity."
VOA: standard.2010.01.20
Why not write the program in a way where you figure out dynamically when the program is run how much memory you need rather than hard coding in two with or within that constant.
为什么不写一个可以动态的方式写那个程序,程序可以动态分配内存,而不是用常量硬编码两个值。
Clinton said the United States and NATO allies are not in Afghanistan for altruistic reasons, but rather to counter a real security threat from what she termed a "syndicate of terrorism" led, funded and inspired by al-Qaida.
VOA: standard.2009.11.09
I mean one way to describe this in a non-technical, non-Freudian way is, there are certain things about ourselves we'd rather not know.
用并不专业的非精神分析的话语来表述,就是我们并不想知道某些事情的存在。
A green energy incentive that relies not on tax money, but rather on ratepayer funds was pioneered in continental Europe, and is now getting a hard look in many countries around the world, including the United States.
VOA: standard.2010.03.23
I'm going to give a kind of a history of financial regulations in the United States that makes it rather a simple story.
我要讲讲美国金融监管史上的一些要点,我们长话短说
The term "reconciliation" refers to a process President Obama and Democrats are likely to use to win upcoming votes in the Senate with a simple 51 vote majority, rather than a 60 vote margin, to avoid Republican roadblocks.
VOA: standard.2010.03.10
They would rather be in a line than dance two-by-two.
他们宁可在一列中而不是一对一对地运动。
The president described the health care debate as being in its final stages after a century of struggle, saying it's about the character of the United States rather than merely the cost of health care for Americans.
VOA: standard.2010.03.19
Milton rather late in his life has become a monist.
弥尔顿晚年成了个一元论者。
At the spring meetings, many development activists will push for the IMF and World Bank to issue funds to poor countries as grants rather than loans, which they say could lead to a second debt crisis in Africa.
VOA: standard.2009.04.20
But the fact that Peter was a czar and was rather scary in his temperament, because he had a rather bad temper, too, meant that he could be alarming.
而彼得大帝是沙皇,加上发起怒来十分可怕,因为他暴躁易怒,人们畏惧他
All of the men say they never intended to bring down any planes, but rather they wanted to unleash a series of harmless stunt explosions on famous landmarks here to in their words, "expose the failings of Western foreign policy."
VOA: standard.2009.09.07
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。
Rather,the focus has been on a 2001 speech in which Sotomayor said she would hope that "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who has not lived that life."
VOA: standard.2009.05.31
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
And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."
还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调
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