He said terrorists are focusing on smaller attacks, rather than the massive kind of strike seen on September 11,2001.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

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

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

He recently told the Bangkok Foreign Correspondents Club that reform should come from the news media rather than the government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

These anachronisms and confused chronologies in the patriarchal stories are the rule rather than the exception in their view, and they are evidence of a very late date of composition.

在他们看来，这些年代错误和混乱的时间线,在族长故事中是普遍现象而不是例外，明显是十分近代的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

It hurts in the long term and therefore, we need to change it rather than the constrained vision-- people who said, "We may not like it, but it is what it is.

长远来说是有害的，所以，我们需要改变它，而认为本性受约束的人-,他们会说，“我们也许不是那样，但本性难移。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Some have asked why companies like AIG were not allowed to go bankrupt, rather than the government investing massive sums of taxpayer money to prop them up.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

But for all that, the key to the same person could have to do with the personality rather than the sameness of bodies.

但这个观点认为，成为同一个人的,关键是同样的人格,而不是同样的肉体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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 the military's power that does nothing but focuses on where is the next war.

军事力量则不同,除了带给我们下一场战争，什么也办不到。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

There are only six syllables here rather than the conventional ten.

这句只有6个音节，正规的应该是10个。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

More than seventy-five percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

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

"One of the biggest differences I see between Western and Chinese parents is that Chinese parents assume strength rather than fragility."

VOA: special.2011.02.17

And it treats it as a string, it's simply getting me back 52*7 the value of that string, 52 times 7, rather than the value of it.

这让Python把它当做字符串来对待，他返回给我了,一个字符串的值，而不是这个数的和。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Experts at the Census Bureau estimate that more than sixty percent of Hispanic growth was from "natural increase" rather than migration.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

Into My Own" . "Legend": "the youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having foresworn the world."

进入自我“，“传奇“,“这个少年被劝诱，如果他放弃世界,他将不再是他自己“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A short time later,John Carter, the Princess and their friend, the green Martian woman Sola, attempt to escape rather than face death.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

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

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

VOA: special.2011.03.24

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

The idea is for NASA to buy services for space transportation, rather than spacecraft with existing designs.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

I will use it in moderation and use it to the best effect possible rather than use it because it is there.

我会适量的运用数学以达到最佳的效果,而不是为了数学而用数学

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Notice that then the "I" disappears, not completely but wherever it reappears it's embedded rather than initial.

注意，现在，“我“不见了，不是完全而是,藏起来不出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He also said: "We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Could be done, but easier is to just do the whole thing at constant volume, right, and just run the reaction that way and redo the calculation to be a constant volume rather than constant pressure calorimeter, right.

可以进行测量,但是如果在体积恒定的条件下,做这些会容易得多,还是这样进行反应,但是在等体而不是恒压条件下重新计算。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That would be putting it in a real frame and-- wouldn't that be more sensible, because you would be specifying the contract in real terms rather than money terms?

那样的话就是一种实物框架理念-,那样不是更合理吗，因为在你拟定合约时,会更倾向于用实物而非货币来计算？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选