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

They can now spend their energy on creating new ideas instead of reinventing ideas that other people have already done quite well.

创造自己的观点,而不用重新整理,别人已经阐述很好的观点。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

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。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

Now, instead of talking about individual particles, we talk about ensembles of particles.

现在，我们不讨论单个的粒子，我们讨论粒子群。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The leaders agreed to make the G20 the main group for their international economic cooperation, instead of the G8.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

There's absolutely no reason I couldn't have switched it around and said that instead the pi orbitals form between these atoms instead of those first atoms I showed.

我完全没有理由,不能把它转过来,现在π键在这些原子间,而不是我开始展示的那些原子间。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

If you can figure out why fails on three letters instead of 12, you'll be more than half way to solving the problem.

如果你能明白为什么程序,在输入三个字母的单词的时候没法运行,你就已经解决了问题的一半了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

Let me go ahead and open up instead a more interesting graphical carnation--incarnation of this.

让我们继续来看看关于这个的,更有趣的图形化的演示---一个具体化的例子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

And it's not just the accent of "Ain," "Quatre-vain" Or "Enfain" Instead of enfin-- it's a whole language.

而且不光是那种"俺"的口音,"把十"或者"嗨子"而不是孩子,完全是另一种语言

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Now,airlines will have to check the no-fly list within two hours of being told of additions, instead of twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

We were basing everything on intuition instead of having a good balance between intuition and data.

我们在所有事情都建立在直觉的基础上,而并没有很好地数据依据。

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 he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

It's instead a process of organizing pre-existing materials And imposing order on those chaotic materials.

相反，它是一个组织原来存在物质的过程,并且给这些混乱的物质赋予秩序。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

And use a whole array of means: diplomacy, alliances letting other countries do things instead of us.

我们可以通过很多方式解决问题：,建立外交关系，建立联盟,让别的国家也参与,而并非事事亲力亲为。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The government wants forty-six creditors to accept two billion dollars instead of the seven billion dollars the company owes.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Machiavelli rejected this idea of the empire and harked back, instead, to the model of republican Rome.

马奇亚维利拒绝这种,帝国的想法并回到先前论点，相对地，他回提罗马共和的模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The study is said to be the first to examine in detail measurements of bone strength instead of bone density.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

If only I had chosen to become a doctor, instead of having chosen to become a lawyer.

要是我选择成为一名医生，而不是选择成为一名律师。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

Sometimes we're holding onto misery or anger or whatever it is You really have to be prepared to be courageous and return to your breath instead of letting feelings like that overcome you.

好像不情愿放开,我们的痛苦和愤怒,你确实要准备好,要勇敢，并回归到呼吸上,而不被恶劣的情绪压倒。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Some of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance criticized her for writing about black culture instead of relations between the races.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

What he says you should do instead is to take the geometric average of gross returns.

他认为应该,对每年的收益求几何平均

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Gemini's flight director decided to reduce the use of power on the spacecraft, instead of ending the flight early.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Instead, things in Frost are "made" in the sense of "constructed."

相反，弗罗斯特是以一种建造观来创作诗歌的“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So that a half circle, instead of calling it 180 degrees, And a quarter circle, instead of 90, It's good to know certain famous angles.

半圆,不说它是180°,四分之一圆,不叫90°,知道一些常用的角度很有必要

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选