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

Rather he'll say, "It's for the child's own good.

而是说，“这都是为了孩子好。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Rather, his subtlety shows itself in his deliberate concealment of it, in the ways in which he masks himself in obviousness.

他的狡猾表现在他故意地隐藏这种隐约，而且是以很直白的方式表现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Milton seems to have dug around rather carefully in his copy of the Faerie Queene, and he's come up with this illusion.

弥尔顿似乎极其小心地模仿着《仙后》,且他出现了这样一种幻想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says there are some situations where people should get examined sooner rather than later.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Rather, it is another kind of language that he represents that will be that kind of germ of what Sal is looking for.

相反，是代表他自己的另一种语言,倒还有一点大师的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He would rather people describe his music as having repeating structures.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

He takes the carcass; he slices it into two halves, Rather like a clamshell, and out of the top half he creates the firmament, the Heaven.

他提起死尸，将它劈成两半，就像掰开贝壳一样，用死尸的上半部分，他创造了苍穹，也就是天空。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He supports focusing on Mars rather than returning to the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

That is a rather odd thing to think about, especially when Brooks goes so far as to say that he has a particular desire in mind.

这想起来更奇怪，尤其是当布鲁克斯更加进一步说明,他脑子里有一个明确的愿望。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He said terrorists are focusing on smaller attacks, rather than the massive kind of strike seen on September 11,2001.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Rather, he claims that he wants to hear justice defended the way that no one has ever defended it before.

相对地，他声称,他想要听到正义自卫的方式,是没有人曾提出的捍卫方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He recently told the Bangkok Foreign Correspondents Club that reform should come from the news media rather than the government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

And he'd never,rather like Louis-Napoleon, had hardly ever been in Paris before; he really hadn't,I don't think,ever.

他不像路易·拿破仑,以前很少到过巴黎,他是从来没去过

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

However he made clear he prefers holding elections early, rather than in June 2010 as scheduled.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

I've always found that kind of research rather boring, but I think he had a point.

我发现这类研究相当乏味,但我认为他一语中的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He says circumstantial evidence indicates the launch involves a long-range missile rather than a satellite.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Or rather, does he have two or not two socks on his feet?

或者他有没有两只袜子？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Rather,he said, it will be won when the Afghan people are convinced that the coalition and the Afghan government offer the best hope for their future.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

He speaks in a language of math and it is very important for students to be able to have hot copies so that they can take notes on the paper rather than be working very hard to copy down the equations that he used in these lectures.

他以数学语言授课,所以发给学生教学材料,是非常重要的,这样就可在纸上做笔记,而不用拼命,抄下他在课上,用到的等式。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The journalist says he is not a hero, but rather a man of principle.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

He makes this really rather snappy by the use of this kind of stuff.

他通过运用这样的元素,让这首曲子更活泼欢快

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He said Secretary Clinton's acceptance of Israel's offer to restrain - rather than freeze settlement growth has killed any hope of restarting peace talks anytime soon.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

He went, the news account tells us, rather against the advice of his friends.

据报道，他不顾朋友的反对。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He accused Mr.Obama of offering "disingenuous attacks" rather than answers on job growth.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Same thing exactly, except that he would rather meet at the Good Shepherd.

唯一不同就是他更爱看《特工风云》

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That Obama will listen to his allies and act in cooperation with them, rather than listen to them and go ahead and do what he wants to do anyway."

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

But rather that he is enormously clever, that he can use speech to achieve practical ends just as he uses strength and power, and all those other things.

更是指他非常聪明,他可以用演说来达到实际的目的,就像他使用力量,权力,以及所有其他的品质来达到目的一样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the fact that Peter was a czar and was rather scary in his temperament, because he had a rather bad temper, too, meant that he could be alarming.

而彼得大帝是沙皇,加上发起怒来十分可怕,因为他暴躁易怒,人们畏惧他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选