"We think that,in the long run, more legitimacy is good for that cooperation rather than less, and that more representation and more good governance and more democracy will give regimes the legitimacy they need to pursue a strategic relationship with the U.S."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

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

But I think it's better to come study here rather than stay in Spain just because of the system again.

但我觉得来到这里学习比留在西班牙好，因为这里的体制比较好。

来自西班牙 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's nothingness that is the mystical state rather than everythingness. And it's interesting to think about whether those two are really opposites.

虚无比万事万物更为是神秘,很有趣的是，想一下,这两个是否真的相反。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

We talked about the sense that, I think, young people have a sort of prejudice against the field and they think that finance is a field that you go into if you really value money rather than people.

我们谈论了，年轻人对这一行业的偏见,他们认为进入金融业的人,金钱至上,而不尊重他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If we think about the drinks industry more generally here, rather than just beer, this would be Guinness, this would be Poland Spring, This is water and everything else would be in between here.

如果我们把啤酒业想得更普遍点,不仅仅只有啤酒,这可能是吉尼斯,这可能是波兰泉水,这是水而其他的产品分布在中间

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But over a lifetime, I think I would think almost a complete majority here would agree that they would rather be a human with higher pleasure than be that rat with intense pleasure for a momentary period of time.

但是就一生而言,我觉得，在场绝大部分人都会同意,他们更愿意做拥有更高级快乐的人,而不是只图一时快乐，做那只享受一时快感的鼠。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I think rather than forcing votes, we should focus on education.

我想，与其采取强制投票的方法相比，不如我们更加关注教育。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I was going to start showing you some examples, but I think, rather than doing that, I'm going to stop here, I'm going to give you two minutes back of time, but I want to just point out to you that we are going to have fun next week, because I'm going to show you what in the world that has to do with efficiency.

我想再给你们讲解一些例子，但是我想想还是算了吧，给你们两分钟休息时间,但是我想告诉你们,我们下周的课,会很有意思,我会告诉你们,到底是什么决定了效率。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选