Clearly, Japanese carpenters of the day knew a few tricks about allowing a building to sway and settle itself rather than fight nature's forces.
显然，当时日本的木匠知道一些技巧，这些技巧可以使建筑能够摇晃并且稳定下来，而不是与自然的力量进行抗衡。
In fact, they often embrace this change rather than fight it.
事实上，他们通常拥护这个变更而不是与它作对。
But Usmanov would prefer to be a sleeping investor rather than fight Kroenke for the club.
但是奥斯曼·诺夫更喜欢当一个睡着的投资者而不是与克伦克争夺这家俱乐部。
I'd love to stay home in my pajamas rather than fight through traffic so I can sit in a cubicle all day.
我喜欢穿着睡衣裤呆在家里而不是艰辛挤公车后成天憋在办公室的小隔间里。
Many of these people will decide to go into business for themselves rather than fight a tough job market.
许多人将决定自己去创业，而不是在一个艰难的就业市场中战斗。
For me, I would love to stay home in my pajamas rather than fight through traffic so I can sit in a cubicle all day.
就我来说，我宁愿穿着睡衣在家里也不要艰辛地挤公车然后在办公室的小格子里闷一天。
The next time you're feeling bad, rather than fight it, try to relax. See if, instead of panicking, you can be graceful and calm.
下次在你心情很坏的时候，不要进行心理斗争，放松一点而不是惊惶失措，这样你也可以变得从容、平和。
The world is composed of many different cultures, among which there should be respect rather than hostility, integration rather than discrimination, tolerance rather than fight.
世界本来就是多元文化的组合体，各种文化之间应该相互尊重而不是对立，相互吸收而不是排斥，相互包容而不是取代。
They have already declared their intention to fight on rather than settle for half-measures.
他们已经宣布要继续战斗，而不是半途而废。
It is no part of ours to describe what was a massacre rather than a fight.
我们无法描述什么是屠杀，而不是战斗。
These and other studies suggest that most societies have "sacred rules" for which their people would fight and risk serious loss and even die rather than compromise.
这些和其他的研究都表明在大多数社会中都存在着这些'神圣的规则”，人们会为它而战斗，冒险，甚至牺牲生命，却永不妥协。
Too often we prepare to fight the crisis of the past rather than anticipate the crisis of the future.
面对已经发生的危机我们往往可以兵来将挡，而不是预测未来的危机。
Trained to fight rather than persuade, many are still planning responses to future conflicts instead of studying their potential causes so as to stop them before they become a real bother.
他们经受的训练教给他们要用拳头说话，而并非好言相劝。其中很多人对未来的冲突还在严阵以待，并不去研究造成冲突的原因，以及在事态严重之前加以制止。
Rather than slipping off to a gilded retirement of golf or gallivanting, as many other accomplished men of his age do, he is still spoiling for a fight.
像他这把年纪，又功成名就，其他许多人都风光退位，打打高尔夫、四处走走看看，安度晚年去了。他却仍不服老，还时刻准备着大干一场。
Some clinics urge women to fight osteoporosis with lifestyle changes rather than pharmaceuticals.
一些医疗机构敦促女性通过改变生活方式、而不是药物来应对骨质疏松症。
The new tax is meant to reduce fuel consumption and fight pollution. Rather than further raising the tax on fuel, which increased by almost 20% in June, the government is taxing gas-guzzling cars.
该举措不是继续提高已经于6月份上涨了接近20%的燃油税，而是意在减少燃油消费从而对抗污染：准备对高油耗汽车征税。
And we were determined to fight like anything rather than give up the hope of going back to Bism.
我们决定宁可拼命战斗，也决不放弃回比斯姆的希望。
Lots of you urged people to work at their most important friendships, rather than letting them fall apart after a fight or fade away.
许多人鼓励别人尽力维护他们最为看重的友情，而不是在一次冲突后分道扬镳或者让这段友情渐渐消失。
Rather than attacking the cancer directly, as chemo does, immunotherapy tries to rally the patient's own immune system to fight the disease.
这种疗法并不是像化疗那样直接攻击癌细胞，而是试图让患者自身的免疫系统来抗击疾病。
I have learned that it pays to fight for concepts and causes that may appear unpopular at the moment, rather than following the course of quick and easy agreement.
我渐渐学到，为当时不受欢迎的想法或观念而战，永远值得的，千万别屈服仓促而轻率的大众协议。
Rather than die without a fight, she slew him in mid-air and plummeted toward the ground, resigned to her death.
她在半空中反手杀死（挣脱）了他然后听天由命地坠向了地面，这总比坐以待毙来得好些。
It was re-titled "Circle of Iron" and told a philosophical journey rather than being merely a fight film.
起名为《静静的长笛》，讲述了一段哲思旅程而不仅仅是功夫片。
Unicorn fish are generally nonaggressive, but during a rare fight they defend themselves with forward-pointing prongs on either side of their tails rather than the prominent horn on their heads.
独角兽鱼一般是不侵略的，但在一个罕见打架期间它们防卫它们自己用向前的尖头叉子在两个边上的它们的尾部而不是突出的角在它们的头部。
Unicorn fish are generally nonaggressive, but during a rare fight they defend themselves with forward-pointing prongs on either side of their tails rather than the prominent horn on their heads.
独角兽鱼一般是不侵略的，但在一个罕见打架期间它们防卫它们自己用向前的尖头叉子在两个边上的它们的尾部而不是突出的角在它们的头部。
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