"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

Women whose lives are mostly held in the private sphere rather than a public one are never gonna be taken in for state torture because they aren't actors on the political and social theme.

一些妇女，她们的生活处于,隐秘和不公开的状态,“国家酷刑“从来不会把她们算进去,因为在政治和社会层面上,她们并非活跃分子。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You could also use the "Is there" pattern when you want to find out about an event rather than a location.

当你想了解一个活动的情况，而不仅仅是一个地点时，还是可以使用“Is there”句型。

Is there 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I believe this war to be a tragic failure that continues to undermine rather than advance our national security interests."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

And that's why, I ended up using a multiplicative factor, rather than an additive factor.

这也是为什么，我最后使用一个倍增因子，而不是用一个加法因子。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

It creates as a distance between two points, rather than a straight line, an arabesque.

它加长了两点之间的距离，使它变得非直而曲。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

And the truth of whether a book should or should not be censored is something that's come about through the diligent effort of a group, rather than a single arbitrary judge like the state licenser.

但一本书是否真正被控制,是一堆人努力的结果，而不是政府出版管理处的人员专横的决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Iranian cleric said the IAEA resolution passed Friday is a "political,rather than a technical" move.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

The most important is that Yahweh's battle is a historic battle, rather than a mythic battle. The sea is not Yahweh's opponent, nor is Yahweh's enemy another god.

最重要的一点是，耶和华的战斗，是一场历史意义上的，而不是神话意义上的，大海并不是耶和华的敌人，也不是其他神的敌人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

If the chance of death would add a kind of zest, then perhaps the ubiquity of death is actually a good thing rather than a bad thing.

如果死亡的可能性增加是一种兴趣，那么也许死亡的无处不在,事实上是一件好事而非坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She says it is better to have a moderate pandemic with a large supply of vaccines, rather than a severe pandemic with inadequate supplies of vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But,she adds, hurling insults at London rather than at Washington is less risky for Tehran, especially if Iran harbors any notions of a rapprochement with the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The distance to food has changed a lot because food has to come in from far greater distances than used to be the case, and that's changed our relationship with food a lot, into a distant rather than a close relationship.

现在人和食物之间的距离发生了很大改变,现在的食物来自比以前远得多的地方,这在很大程度上,我们和食物间的关系,被渐渐地拉远了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Yes,a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict, and the West has often approached Africa as a patron and a source of resources, rather than a partner.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Not this time.Not now." At the same time, the president said that rather than a radical shift that would disrupt health care Americans now have, he favors building on what works and fixing what doesn't.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Also you can use " It seems" as a statement rather than a question.

你也可以将"It seems"作为陈述句使用，而非疑问句。

It seems 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The term "reconciliation" refers to a process President Obama and Democrats are likely to use to win upcoming votes in the Senate with a simple 51 vote majority, rather than a 60 vote margin, to avoid Republican roadblocks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

And we have much love. It was a neighborhood rather than a hood.

我家和邻居们都非常的相爱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"I think in the long run what this does is to contribute to what seems to be occurring right now and that is the retrenchment of the Republican Party, opting for purity of ideological beliefs rather than a broad-based appeal to the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

For all these reasons, "The Fisherman" is really a re-writing and even a kind of continuation, rather than a repudiation, of "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" and the poems from that period.

就这些原因而言，渔夫,实际上是对流浪者安古斯之歌，和其他早期诗歌的一种重写,甚至是继续而不是否定。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.06.26

Why not write the program in a way where you figure out dynamically when the program is run how much memory you need rather than hard coding in two with or within that constant.

为什么不写一个可以动态的方式写那个程序,程序可以动态分配内存,而不是用常量硬编码两个值。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."

无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So central banks around the world began to manage became managers of inflation rather than defenders of a gold standard.

所以，世界各地的中央银行,开始管理，成为了通货膨胀的管理者,而不是金本位制度的守卫者。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选