He also said: "We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry, in Crane.

基督教信仰和践行的衰败,在克莱恩看来，并不是损失，反而是诗歌新生的机会。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And it requires us to understand history not in moral terms, such as "good" and "evil," but rather in aesthetic terms.

它需要我们,不是以道德层面去理解历史，去判断好坏“,而是要从审美的角度去看。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al- Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

No,according to the personality theory, what personal identity requires isn't item-for-item the same personality, but rather the same evolving personality.

不，根据人格理论，个人认同感并不需要一个完全相同的人格，而是同样在进化的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But one of them would make war rather than let the nation live.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Maybe everything you're now experiencing is not real, but rather is the product of some other, perhaps malevolent, creature.

或许你现在所经历的一切都不是真实的,而是某种邪恶生物制造出的幻觉

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

it says, " but rather more effective regulation."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Second thing we've been doing, I want to highlight for you is, we've along the way, mostly just verbally rather than writing it down, but we've been talking about good style.

我们一直在学的第二件事情是,我想给大家强调下，我们一直在口头上说，而没有把它写下来，但是我们一直在说优秀的风格。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The best antidote to intolerance is not the 'Defamation of Religions' approach of banning and punishing offensive speech, but rather a combination of robust legal protections against discrimination and hate crimes, proactive government outreach to minority religious groups, and a vigorous defense of both freedom of religion and expression."

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The sovereign does not exist by nature but rather, Hobbes tells us again, the sovereignty is the product of art or science.

霍布斯又告诉我们说,国家不是生来就有的，而主权也只是科学和艺术的产物罢了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility Ca recognition on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

VOA: special.2009.01.24

And then, they're proud of it and they insist that I, not inflict, but rather induce you, invite you to do the same thing.

然后，他们引以为豪并且坚持认为，我不是强迫，而是说服，邀请你去做同样一件事。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But the matter is far from settled. President Sarkozy wants parliament to pass a nonbinding resolution, rather than a law.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Notice that then the "I" disappears, not completely but wherever it reappears it's embedded rather than initial.

注意，现在，“我“不见了，不是完全而是,藏起来不出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Fukuda notes a pandemic has nothing to do with the severity of the disease, but rather with its geographic spread.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

The most important thing about parenting-- " it's not how much you tell your child "honesty is important" but rather how honest you are.

为人父母最重要的-,不是告诉子女“诚实很重要“,而是你自身有多诚实。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"This is not a sign of weakness, but rather one more step on a clearly charted path to Chrysler's revival.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

But rather nature has been a sense set it into motion.

自然已经是开始运转了的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told delegates at the conference that this transition is not an ending, but rather,a new beginning.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

But not for the sake of hashing through the history of philosophy not for the sake of analyzing philosophical concepts the way analytical philosopher would, but rather,with that kind of background preparation, seeing things that others might not.

不是为了深入讨论,哲学的历史,不是为了像,一个分析哲学家那样,分析哲学概念，而是在有了那种背景知识的准备后，看到一些别人可能看不到的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

but rather a "global survival pact." Maldives is hosting a two-day conference of 11 nations which are most at risk from global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

So nevertheless, even having given you that historical example, we're going to come back and we'll look later on in the class at a model in which politicians cannot choose their positions, but, rather, you know their positions ahead of time.

尽管如此,尽管我列举了一个历史上的例子,我们还是要回到课堂上来,我们接下来要来探讨一个,政客不能自己选立场的模型,但是当然你们可以提前获知他们的立场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

not the usual enhancement, but rather qualitative enhancement - above all through the strategic nuclear forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

From this perspective, dreams serve no adaptive function at all but rather they're epiphenomena.

从这个角度看，梦境没有自我适应功能,它只是一种副现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Hezbollah is not believed to be responsible for this attack, but rather a small Palestinian faction.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Well, that's a rather dramatic example, but the same sort of thing in principle can happen to all of us.

这是非常戏剧性的例子，但同样的事原则上会发生在所有人身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"But we have a rather poorly developed system of good primary care and prenatal care."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

I say, that's all rather interesting from a metaphysical point of view, but speaking personally, I don't really care.

我会说，那很有趣,从纯哲学的角度而言，但就个人来说，我不在乎。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In other words, Iser is no more an historicist than Gadamer is but insists rather on the mutual exchange of prejudice between the two horizons in question.

换句话说就是，伊瑟尔并不比葛达玛更历史主义,但他相反却坚持在两个有争执的视域中,偏见的互换。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选