Analysts say defense spending is changing along with strategies - with an emphasis on intelligence and deterrence rather than on combat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

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

rather than buying them purely as an investment. But again, that would be...

而不是纯粹为了投资。但是，那样的话……

关于购买艺术品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

that rather than helping build a stable Afghanistan capable of governing itself, what they describe as an escalation of the U.S.presence may actually harm U.S.security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Is that speech for the law, with the laws, really intended for the benefit of Crito, rather than an expression ? of Socrates' deepest opinions about the questions of obligation and obedience?

那场为法律所讲，有关法律的对话，真的是要为克里托排解，而不是苏格拉底,最深层意见的表述,尤其是那些问题攸关义务与服从？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

To help accomplish that, General McChrystal noted that the training unit for Afghan forces is now a NATO command, rather than being just an American responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Rather than have the government regulate, we have an industry organization that does it so that the government doesn't have to.

与其由政府出面监督,不如由行业监督组织去进行监管,因此不需政府出头

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Many Senate Republicans say they are troubled by the remark, as it suggests the federal appeals court judge is inclined to consider race and gender in judicial decisions rather than adhering to an impartial application of the law.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

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

By linking the goal to its gross national product rather than setting an absolute emissions target, China - the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases may actually see its total emissions increase over the next decade, even if it meets the voluntary target.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

So rather than calling this an electron beam, this was called a cathode ray.

因此我们最好别叫它电子束，而是阴极射线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The economy needs help. But rather than stimulating the economy by providing an improved incentives to work and invest, we have been devoting trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent long-term government spending programs and income-redistribution mechanisms,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Rather than thinking of a teacher necessarily, one can think of an individual acts more like a mentor or coach in certain settings.

不必要一定要有个老师，你可以想成一个人在某个领域,作为指导者或是教练。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"Our effort here in writing this letter is just urging caution because we're hoping that with the new administration, we will have an administration that will lend itself more to diplomacy and working through other means rather than always military confrontation,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

I'm much better having an exception get handled at the time of input than to let that prop -- that value rather propagate through a whole bunch of code until eventually it hits an error 17 calls later, and you have no clue where it came from.

不是我期望的格式,这时我最好有一个异常处理,而不是让其传下去,这个值传到代码的整个分支,最终会导致一个错误17调用的发生，并且你不知道这个错误是哪里来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Rather than by forming an image or a picture you put electrodes on the surface of the body and measure the electrical potential as a function of position on the body.

它并不对人进行直接的造影,而是将电极放到身体表面,通过测量该位置电势能,表征该部位的生理状态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Final point then is...and we're not going to talk about salvation right now...but we're going to talk about the fact that the only supreme law is the will of God, because God is a creator God rather than a created God. He's imposed order, an order upon the cosmos.

最后一点，我们并不准备马上讲救赎,我们准备讲的事实是唯一的,至高无上的法律就是上帝的意愿，因为上帝是一个创造者,而不是被造出来的上帝，他对宇宙发号施令。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

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So I've removed the comments, the things that start with slash slash from the slides just so you have an opportunity engage more intellectually rather than just reading the answers off the screen.

我把注释去掉了，那些双斜杠,右边的文字,所以这样你你们可以做一些思考,而不是阅读屏幕上的答案。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Then also, of course, if hunger is an issue and people are eating more than they want then you'd rather have the red line than the yellow line.

那么,当然,如果饥饿问题没解决,人们会比想像的吃得多,这么看来你自然宁愿达到红线而不是黄线

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Both people would rather be at an equilibrium than to be mal-coordinated or uncoordinated, but Player 1 wants to go to Bourne ultimatum and Player 2 wants to go to Good Shepherd, and actually I thought Nina's strategy there was pretty good.

每个参与人都觉得达成均衡,总比协调失败要好得多,但是参与人1想看《谍影重重》,而参与人2想看《特工风云》,我觉得妮娜的策略很好

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

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

The perspective is an evening perspective rather than a perspective of total illumination.

这是一个从夜晚出发的观点,而非完全可启发的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选