The bride may buy a used gown rather than paying thousands of dollars for a new one.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

And what this class will do is talk about how did it become orthodox Christianity, rather than one of the other kinds of Christianity?

这门课程将探讨的话题之一,是如何变成东正教的，而不是其他基督教？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It's rather than working on isolating the parts and trying make one part of your body big,

这不是单独练习各个部分，试图把某一部分的肌肉练得很大，

要拥有好身材 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But one of them would make war rather than let the nation live.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

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

Erik Leaver of the Institute of Policy Studies says one big difference is that the strongest opposition about Afghanistan may form over the financial cost of the war rather than the human one.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

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

"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

The better way to think about this is, suppose, rather than starting at the beginning, I just grabbed some spot at random, like this one.

不从数组的头开始遍历，我随即的从数组中抓一个元素，比如这个，我去看看这个元素的值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So he says, no one would take seriously the proposal that a human organism learns through experience to have arms rather than wings, or that the basic structure of particular organs results from accidental experience.

他认为,没人会相信人体组织通过学习经验,长出了手臂而不是翅膀,或者特定器官的基本结构,是偶然经验的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

that are just the, you know, one or two stores rather than the chains.

他们只有一两家店，而不是连锁店。

做头发是免费的 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that's taken alone, according to one's own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.

好了，这就是一种自发的美学享受的情景,对，这就是独自幻想的乐趣，它出自人自己的想法，而不是一些更宽广的概念，不是一些更社会化的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

More typically,one aspect of the culture dominates rather than the other.

更普遍的,是文化中某一部分,较另一部分更占主导地位

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I'd rather rent a car than buy one.

比起买车，我宁愿租一辆车。

I'd rather 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

bugs And if so, let's fix them all at once rather than one at a time.

让我们一次性全部修复这些,而不是一次修复一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So you say well, rather than rushing off and fixing this one bug, let me pull back and ask, bug is this a systematic mistake that I've made throughout the program?

因此我们应该回头想想,这是不是我在整个程序中都，在犯的一个系统性错误，而不是匆匆忙忙的去修复这一个,如果确实是系统性错误的话？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选