But,in his words, "A smart entrepreneur should spend his time developing the business rather than the business plan."

VOA: special.2009.06.26

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

It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.

一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。

Do you mind 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Reports say Americans are buying more wines in stores rather than ordering them in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.10.20

So a couple of FAQ's that have come up in section or rather in office hours.

两三个FAQ被提出了，在章节中或,在办公时间中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"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

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

"For people who were looking for a dramatic break in American foreign policy it is rather hard to identify it,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

They're associated now with events in the life of the new nation rather than being grounded in the cycles of nature.

他们现在同一个国家的新生联系起来,而不再是简单的自然循环。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What are the consequence in countries, or for countries rather, when we do not have enough to go round,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The Russian empire was rather like Charlemagne's empire in 800 in the coronation at Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle and all of that.

沙皇俄国倒是非常像查理曼帝国,即公元800年在亚琛加冕称王的查理曼帝国

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

understands that a Turkey inside the European Union, is in Greek interests, rather than Turkey outside the Union."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

It's rather the people who don't see the potential in other people as well as in themselves as we'll discuss.

是人们看不到他人身上的潜力,也看不到自己身上的潜力，我们会讨论到。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Baby turtles hatching at night head to buildings' bright lights rather than the ocean, dying in the process.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Nobody can possibly miss in reading Eikhenbaum's rhetorically rather bizarre essay his obsession with struggle, with the fight, and with doing battle.

读完艾肯鲍姆,那篇修辞古怪的文章后，没有人会注意不到他对斗争和挣扎的热衷。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"We also feel that former child soldiers should be given assistance and be quickly reunited with their families rather than kept in detention."

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

All right. So it's 7 that are in chlorine, it's the same as fluorine or any of the others in that row or in that group rather.

好，氯有七个，跟氟或者在那一列,的其它元素一样。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Many energy experts favor the development of electric vehicles rather than a heavy investment in biofuels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The reason that we hear these as distinctly different, I think, happens rather early on in the scale.

我们觉得它们如此截然不同的原因,我看早在音阶中就出现了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Are you sure you didn't want to do for i in range of list, rather than for i in list?

你真的打算这么做吗？你确定你不是,想在链表范围内定义i而不是定义链表i？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That is the way that fault operates as well." In other cases, the plates may move up and down, rather than from side to side.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Again,I want to just notice that it's a rather odd thing to try to express that point in the language everyone dies alone.

我还是觉得“人都是孤独而亡“这观点,这个诠释是很奇怪的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"When she was much younger, she actually made rather hateful comments about Irish immigrants that were pouring into the country, escaping famine conditions in Ireland."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

I'm going to give a kind of a history of financial regulations in the United States that makes it rather a simple story.

我要讲讲美国金融监管史上的一些要点,我们长话短说

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And he accused some members of offering forces for peacekeeping in Bosnia or for the never-used NATO Response Force, rather than for more dangerous missions in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

It shows in these parts of the pyramid that run vertically rather than horizontally, how much people should be eating of various foods.

这个金字塔的组成部分,是垂直排列的,而非以往的水平排列,它们代表了人体对每种食物的需求量

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The comments came in a rather philosophical address to the Clinton Global Initiative.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

They would rather be in a line than dance two-by-two.

他们宁可在一列中而不是一对一对地运动。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Rather, they stand there with their faces in a normal expression.

相反，他们表情平淡。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选