"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

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

He would also regard the peculiar American practice of elections rather than the Greek practice of appointing political offices by lot.

他也将关注,奇怪的美式选举方式,那有别于透过抽签决定的,希腊式指派政治官位模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

People could now see battlefield deaths as captured by a camera rather than an artist's pen or paintbrush.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Maybe they emerged from within, rather than being established by peoples immigrating from without.

也许他们是从内部崛起的，而不是由从外部迁徙而至的人建立。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He adds that,unfortunately, post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have also preserved the Soviet system in which historians are funded by the state, rather than private foundations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

See if we can find it here. And notice, by the way, that I commented out the previous debugging line, rather than got rid of it.

我们再去从它们的中间开始尝试，看看我们能不能发现问题源,顺便说一下，请注意。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But the Uruguayan leader, a doctor by training,lamented that Latin American governments are devoting growing resources to armaments rather than dealing with pressing social needs including health and education.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

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

Addressing opposition, President Obama referred to what he called scare tactics rather than honest debate, and wild claims by Republicans that reform plans would lead to a government takeover of health care.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Last time I was talking to you about the world of Homer from the side of, you might say,the life of the mind rather than the practical matters of society by talking about values and ethics in the world of Homer.

上节课我谈到了,荷马时期,可以说,是从精神生活的角度,而不是社会实践的角度来论述的,我们讲了荷马时期的价值观和伦理观

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

So a number of you, even if the price was just a tiny bit different might have a preference for one rather than the other, so without getting in trouble by putting the camera on you, how many of you would have a preference, if the prices were essentially the same how many of you would have a strict preference for Pepsi?

那么你们中的很多人,尽管价格只有一点点不同,也许还是倾向于其中一个产品,不让你们上镜头而招来麻烦,你们谁会有倾向,如果价格差不多,谁会倾向选择百事可乐

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But I think he should have seen it coming,". In congressional testimony, Bernanke has placed much of the blame for the 2008 financial meltdown on lax governmental regulation of banks and other entities as authorized by Congress, rather than the monetary policy he oversaw.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Also, it's only after their defiance of God's command that Adam and Eve first become aware of, and ashamed by, their nakedness, putting the sort of sexual awakening after the act of disobedience rather than at the same time or prior to.

同时，在亚当夏娃，违背了上帝的命令后,第一次为他们的赤身裸体，感到羞愧，他们的性觉醒，产生于违背上帝的意愿之后,而不是在他们被创造之初。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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