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

But then you just go to university during the day instead of to school.

只不过你白天去大学上课，而不是去高中的学校。

来自西班牙 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And instead of this continual anticipation of writing something great, Milton's able to look back and find closure in something already written.

他并没有继续着写一些伟大的作品，而是追溯了过去，并在已完成的作品中寻找着终结。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Instead of shopping in just the regular shopping mall we were kind of forced to go to these bargain type shops."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

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

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

Now, instead of being the cost of traveling that distance to go and buy the product, what's it going to be?

不是走一定距离,去买产品的成本,它是什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Often the company would use mules instead of horses to pull its stagecoaches because the Indians had no interest in mules.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

So you will sometimes see as you are reading the text, they will sometimes refer to Horeb instead of Mount Sinai, or you'll see the two names used interchangeably. And it's been the theory of scholars that that's because it comes from a different source.

所以，有时在你阅读的文本中，它会提到和烈山,而不是西奈山，或者你会看到这两个名字,互换着用，根据学者的理论解释，这是因为,这两个名字来源于不同的资料。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Cupcakes are cool because they're having your own personal cake instead of having to share with a lot of people.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

To change a reference point from this point here being zero instead of this point here being zero.

这样就得到了,开尔文温标。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

There, researchers are developing a test that uses human saliva instead of blood to find those infected with malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Instead of hard labor to go get food all it requiresis a little drive-in to the window.

和先前辛苦劳作以获取食物不一样,取而代之的是,免下车餐厅

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They had many complaints. One said Paul talked to the other students instead of paying attention to the lessons.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

It's much larger than a bacterium, it's ten to 30 microns let's say instead of one to two microns, so almost ten times bigger.

人类细胞比细菌大得多,有十到三十微米那么大而不是一两微米,几乎大了十倍

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Instead,he went to see the heads of some of the largest American companies to get their financial support for his network.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

So instead of carrying oxygen to your cells, you're carrying cyanide to your cells.

因此，运到你的细胞的不是氧，而是氰化物。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Because he used head-craft, instead of witchcraft, he rose from the poorest igloo to be the chief in the village.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

We could instead say, the key to personal identity is the sameness of the personality.

我们可以说，人格同一性的关键在于,同样的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The students use the mixture to fertilize the soil instead of buying chemical fertilizers that could harm the environment.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

It allows four bonds to form instead of just two.

我们把四个氢原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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

I used to have up here a page--I used to take- instead of Treasury Direct, which is a website, I used to get a clipping from The Wall Street Journal that showed much the same information that you see on this chart.

我以前有个幻灯片,不同于现在的"国库指南"网站,我过去用的是《华尔街日报》的剪报,上面是和这表上几乎相同的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

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

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

Instead if we want this pointer to represent the address of something in as much as it points at that address let's just draw an arrow.

如果我们想要让这个指针表示,数据的地址，它指向的地址,我用一个箭头表示。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.09.26

In 1717 in Paris, Lindsey Hughes reports, he went to a private house instead of the Louvre palace.

林赛·休斯曾写道,彼得大帝1717年去巴黎时,他没有住在卢浮宫而是住在一所私宅里

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选