If you do not see any big animals near the river, Mist can tell you about birds instead.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

We are honoring instead the integrity of what they're saying without thinking about whether or not it might be true.

我们事实上反而在,尊重他们所说内容的真实性,却从未想过这到底是不是真的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When to use "the" in a sentence, when not to use "the", when to use "an" instead of "a" or "a" instead of "the".

在一个句子中，什么时候用“the”，什么时候不用“the”，什么时候用“an”代替“a”，什么时候用“a”代替“the”。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

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

Instead of a young man full of life, they saw an old man who could not speak clearly or control his shaking.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

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

It says there is not enough evidence to decide about either digital mammography or magnetic resonance imaging instead of traditional film mammography.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Socrates instead spends some time worrying about the question: is the soul really like harmony or not?

取而代之的是花时间,研究一个问题：,即灵魂是不是真的像和声一样？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the seventeen-year-old decided not to go to college but instead play for the National Basketball Association.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Which is sort of the question we'd immediately like to ask. Instead, I asked why did it produce the result it did. So I'm not asking myself what's wrong? Or how could I make it right?

其实这个问题我们马上就要问,我问了为什么它会返回这样的结果,因此我并没有去在意哪儿错了,或者我该怎么改正它，我在意的是它？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The doctor came to believe that the disease was not infectious, but instead related to diet.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

"Not if we won't listen," Polemarchus Instead, they reach a compromise.

如果我们不想听当然就不能“,回说，Polemarchus，says。,相反地，他们达成一项妥协。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She says incidents involving nationals instead of foreigners do not get the same level of attention.

VOA: special.2010.08.16

The adult learner has enormous pressures on them to not take time out to learn, but instead to continue working in their working environment and in the context that they are in the day-to-day environment.

成年学者压力很大,他们不能抽出时间学习，只能在工作场所,不停地工作,在这种情况下,他们每天处于一个环境。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They surrendered instead. Those who would not immediately surrender faced Sheriff Slaughters guns.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

And a twenty-four-year-old Milton, after seven years of education, simply decides not to go. Instead of joining the ministry, Milton instead returns home and he stays at home without any means of supporting himself for six years.

而24岁的弥尔顿，在结束了7年的学业之后，却决定不那么做,他反而是回到了家中,在家里呆了6年。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Officials say protesters will not be allowed to rally outside parliament, and should instead gather at a field on the outskirts of the city.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And in this quest for what is best, positive psychology does not rely on wishful thinking, self-deception,or hand waving; instead,it tries to adapt what is best in the scientific method to the unique problems that human behavior presents " in all its complexity."

在追求理想状态时，积极心理学不会盲目主观，或自欺欺人;,相反，它尝试用最科学的方法来探究,极其复杂的人类行为所表现出来的,特殊问题“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"But,the point of the international community is that those are not to be dealt with at the end of the barrel of a gun, but,instead,through legal proceedings."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

But interestingly,things look rather different if we accept not the personality theory, but instead,the body theory.

但有趣的是，如果我们接受的不是人格理论，而是肉体理论，事情会有所不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Prime Minister Fischer has already said he does not want to stay in politics, but instead return to his old job as head of the Czech Statistical Office.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

And this is what they had expected that there would be no relationship, but instead here they saw that there was a linear relationship not to the intensity and the kinetic energy of the electrons, but to the intensity and the number of electrons.

另外一个实验,他们预期这两者没有关系,但他们看到的不是,光强和电子动能的,线性关系，而是光强,和电子数的线性关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"They want a state instead of Israel, not a state alongside Israel."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

And resonance is the idea that sometimes one single Lewis structure does not adequately describe the electron configuration around a given molecule, so instead you need to draw two different Lewis structures to describe that more appropriately.

而所谓共振态,就是有时候一个路易斯结构不足以,完整描述一个给定分子的电子排布，因此这时你需要同时画出两个,不同的路易斯结构来描述它,这样会更恰当。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"They just have too much impact." The White House has not taken a stand on the proposed legislation, focusing instead on President Obama's one-on-one discussions with Chinese leaders.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

On the other hand, if the balance from here on out would've been negative, then it's good for me that I died now instead of being kept alive with a life not worth living.

另一方面，如果从现在开始计算其结果是负数，那么我现在死去就是好事,因为我不用不值地活着。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"If you do not have independent experts sitting in the commission and instead you have government officials sitting in the commission how is the commission going to hold ASEAN member states accountable to human rights?

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Whereas in molecular orbital theory, what I'm telling you is instead we understand that the electrons are spread all over the molecule, they're not just associated with a single atom or a single bond.

而在分子轨道理论里，我要告诉你们的时,我们任为电子分布在整个分子中,它们不仅仅是和,一个原子或者一个键有关。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But rather than celebrating Nigeria's status as not only host nation but also defending champion of this event, local organizers and FIFA officials alike will instead be holding their collective breath, hoping that the country pulls through the three-week long tournament without any major problems.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22