Often the company would use mules instead of horses to pull its stagecoaches because the Indians had no interest in mules.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

But, you know why not do something a little special, little different, and they decided instead to use lithium.

但是你懂的，为什么不做的更特殊，更与众不同一些呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But that is too long. So instead we just say, "How about". You can use "How about" in any situation.

但是这样的说法太长了， 所以我们一般就说“How about”来代替。它适用于各种语境。

How about 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The council presents reasons why business schools should use the GMAT instead of the Graduate Record Examinations, or GRE.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

And so now, instead of using these reference points for the Kelvin scale, we use the absolute zero, which isn't going to care what the pressure is.

就像理想气体温标,与气体的种类无关一样，具有普适性，在开尔文温标中。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Gemini's flight director decided to reduce the use of power on the spacecraft, instead of ending the flight early.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Instead he develops a highly intricate theory of how he's going to use slavery to save black people.

但他发明了一套非常复杂的理论,是关于如果通过奴隶制解放黑奴的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If you use an alcohol-based product instead of soap and water, make sure it contains at least sixty percent alcohol.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

And use a whole array of means: diplomacy, alliances letting other countries do things instead of us.

我们可以通过很多方式解决问题：,建立外交关系，建立联盟,让别的国家也参与,而并非事事亲力亲为。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The students use the mixture to fertilize the soil instead of buying chemical fertilizers that could harm the environment.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Instead of people you could use terms like "cargo," instead of murder, extermination.

我不把你称为人，而称为“货物”,我不说谋杀，而说“根除”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In Scratch you may have realized that, "I could implement my program this way with these puzzle pieces, but it kind of feels -- like I could use these puzzle pieces instead" -- that's absolutely the case in programming.

在Scratch中你可能已经意识到，“我可以用这一段代码来,执行我的程序，不过这有点感觉到,我可以用这些代码段来代替“,那绝对是编程中的一个情况。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Some gardeners use leaf mulch fine particles of leaves instead of wood mulch around trees, especially young trees.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

But by the time Milton begins writing his epic, he abandons his plan for a nationalistic poem, a nationalist poem, and decides instead to use the subject matter that he had been intending for that prospective tragedy, Paradise Lost.

当弥尔顿开始写史诗的时候，他放弃了原来写民族主义诗歌的计划，转而决定用他本来打算写的悲剧,《失乐园》的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Millions of Americans now use a debit card or credit card, instead of paper money or checks, to make most of their purchases.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

When to use "the" in a sentence, when not to use "the", when to use "an" instead of "a" or "a" instead of "the".

在一个句子中，什么时候用“the”，什么时候不用“the”，什么时候用“an”代替“a”，什么时候用“a”代替“the”。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example,Mayo Clinic experts said people could reduce salt use by using herbs and spices instead.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

For example, suppose you use vertical motion and you use y instead of x; and a would be g or -g; that's a particle falling down under the affect of gravity.

例如,假设在竖直运动中,你用 y 来代替 x,那么 a 就是 g 或者 -g,这就是一个受重力作用下落的质点

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He chose to use pencils instead of guns to show how wars are really won.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Instead of being very direct, you can use "I don't know" to soften your response slightly.

但你不想说得那么直接，你可以用“I don't know”来让你的回答更为委婉。

I don't know 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mayo Clinic experts said people could reduce salt use by using herbs and spices instead.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Also you will often use a contraction. Instead of saying "you have" you'll say "you've."

你也会经常用到缩写的形式，一般我们会说“you've”而不是“you have”。

have to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Instead,doctors use a patient's medical history and testing to dismiss other treatable conditions.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

And so, the behaviorist manifesto would then be to develop a science without anything that's unobservable and instead use notions like stimulus and response and reinforcement and punishment and environment that refer to real world and tangible events.

因此，行为主义者的目标,是建立一门科学,将一切不可观测的事情都排除在外,取而代之的是应用,诸如刺激，反应，强化，惩罚,以及表示现实世界和客观事件的环境,之类的概念来进行研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They use their natural sense to do something instead of their learned knowledge.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

If you instead use GetString, same thing: blinking cursor, the function is just going to wait for the user to type a word, a sentence or whatever, and then hit Enter.

如果你用GetSring来代替它，同样的：闪烁光标，那个函数只是等待用户来,输入一个单词，一个句子什么的，然后敲回车。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So tests often use human blood instead.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

I'm going to use the CS50 Library instead for user input I'm saying say something then I'd get a string from the user and I call time s1 and then I say, say something, s2 and then I get another string from the user and call it s2 and apparently this program's purpose in life is to tell me yes or no the user said the same thing both times.

然而我使用的是CS50库来获得用户输入,我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串,并把它叫做s1，然后我说点什么，然后从用户那里获得一个字符串，并把它叫做2,这个程序的最终目的是,告诉我两次用户输入的是不是同样的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Instead,it would use only gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17