"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

But, you know why not do something a little special, little different, and they decided instead to use lithium.

但是你懂的，为什么不做的更特殊，更与众不同一些呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

So it's going to be favorable for the electrons instead to go to that lower energy state and be within the molecular orbital.

所以对于电子来说,更倾向于能量更低的轨道,呆在分子轨道里。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.04

But by the time Milton begins writing his epic, he abandons his plan for a nationalistic poem, a nationalist poem, and decides instead to use the subject matter that he had been intending for that prospective tragedy, Paradise Lost.

当弥尔顿开始写史诗的时候，他放弃了原来写民族主义诗歌的计划，转而决定用他本来打算写的悲剧,《失乐园》的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

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

"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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.20

My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

And then linked to the glycerol instead of a third fatty acid chain is a water soluble molecule, like a salt.

但连到甘油上的第三个基团不是脂肪酸链,而是一种水溶性的分子,像盐一样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Instead, if you attempt to open a Flash page, you get what has become known as "the blue Lego of death."

VOA: special.2010.06.22

But Moses refuses to accept the offer, and instead he defends the Israelites, and he averts their destruction.

但是摩西拒绝上帝提供的机会,为犹太人进行辩护，努力的避免被毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Mothers learn to carry preterm babies in front instead the traditional African way of carrying a baby, on the mother's back.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

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

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

VOA: special.2009.04.14

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

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

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

So, empathy, caring, sympathy don't kick in, but instead there's the aggression unleashed at somebody and there has to be some level of surprise.

所以移情，关怀，同情没有发挥作用，反而是释放了别人的侵略情绪,还必须在一定程度上出人意料。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

It wouldn't be right to kill five if you could kill one person instead.

当可以只牺牲一人时，牺牲五人不是正确之举。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But instead of going to prison, she was permitted to seek treatment to end her dependence on drugs.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Instead, you come to class.

而是，你们来上课。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

One is building new houses, another one is building new apartment buildings that's commercial instead of-- but it's still adding to the housing stock and the third one is improvements of existing houses.

一种是新建家庭住宅,另一种是新建公寓,用于商业用途而非...,也是存量住房的一部分,第三种是现房改造

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选