Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell - a cell produced by people instead of by nature.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

In Genesis 6 through 9 we seem to have two flood stories with distinctive styles, and themes, and vocabularies, and substantive details, but they're interwoven instead of being placed side by side.

创世纪》6到9章中，似乎又有各个版本的洪水故事,风格，主题，语言，重要的细节都不同,但他们联系紧密，而不能相互取代。

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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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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

Humans banded together instead of working more as individuals and started hunting animals in groups, groups of animals hunted by groups of humans.

人类开始聚集在一起,而非单独行动,人类开始集体狩猎,集体狩猎帮助人类捕获大量的动物

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Congress,instead,let the people of Kansas vote on the statehood constitution written by pro-slavery men.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Instead,it was created by the action of sulfuric acid.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Instead,one of them gets kidnapped or has to go off to war or captured by pirates, and she's taken off by pirates and sold into slavery, and she goes all the way around the Mediterranean, and the young man follows her around the Mediterranean in chapter after chapter after chapter.

相反，其中一人会被绑架,或者参军打仗，或者被海盗俘虏，女方被海盗掳走，卖作奴隶，她会一路在地中海四处转辗，男方会追随她走遍地中海,就这样一章又一章。

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"Some of our projects have looked at what we call situational impairments, which are challenges to accessibility that are caused more by the situation or context that the computer user is in instead of maybe as we usually think of accessibility as having to do with someone's own physical or cognitive state."

VOA: special.2011.04.18

As you can see, part of the reason why the dividend-earnings ratio-- especially in more recent years, since 1990-- has been declining is that corporations were trying to somewhat ease the tax burden on their shareholders by doing repurchase instead of dividend.

可以看出,股利收益比降低的部分原因,尤其是在近些年,从1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通过将分红,改为股票回购的方法,多少减轻股东的税负

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Instead of this organic farm, the land here had been claimed by the desert.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Now you could do a similar sort of thing, but instead of having a candle, you have a paddle wheel, and the paddle wheel is spun by a weight that's dropping from here to here.

那接下来可以做一件类似的事，但不再是蜡烛，我们将它换成一个桨轮，桨轮末端拴一个重物,它可以从这掉落到这。

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The NLD won elections in 1990 by a landslide, but the military refused to recognize the result, instead undertook a campaign of harassment and arrest of opposition politicians.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

You have the young storm god, Marduk, who defeats Tiamat, the watery ferocious deep monster, and does so by blasting a wind into her and so establishes his claim to rule, instead of the old sky god, Anu.

年轻的暴风之神Marduk，凭借一阵狂风，打败了Tiamat-在深水凶猛的怪物,他取代了天空之神Anu，建立了自己的统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Instead of summing them and dividing by M, I multiply them all together and take the nth root of them.

我把所有的乘在一起然后开n次方,而不是把他们加总再除以个数

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