You'd rather be in the state of nature, at least on April 15th.

所以至少在四月十五日，你宁愿处于自然状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You can be very indirect and just express what you'd rather do instead.

你可以非常间接地表达你宁愿做其他一些事情。

I'd rather 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Last week, you'll be writing your second paper and I'd rather spend time on that than doing any outside reading.

最后一周，你们会写第二篇论文,我宁愿花时间在那上面,而不愿做一些课外阅读。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I'd rather go and if you're going to be stubborn i'd rather go see Bourne Ultimatum with you than not go on a date at all.

如果你固执己见毫不动摇的话,那我就陪你去看《谍影重重》吧,这总比约会失败要好吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So we'd really like to be able to find some sort of equation of state, or some sort of rather function of state that's going to relate the heat going in or out of the system with that function of state, because this isn't going to do it.

所以我们真的想要去,找到一些态方程或者态函数,通过这个态函数可以表示热量,在系统与外界的交换,因为这个不能表示它。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

66 I'm sure it would be very amusing if I fell, but I'd rather not.

但我可不想，我们用13除以。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选