And ended up asking the postal clerk if he was deaf, rather than if he was sure.
最终他问邮政办事员[是否是聋子]，而不是他[是否肯定]。
But it now seems to be a matter of when, rather than if, wireless charging enters the mainstream.
但现在看来，无线充电走入大众视线已成必然，只剩下时间问题了。
IT TOOK some time, but Germany finally seems to be addressing how, rather than if, a Greek restructuring will occur.
虽然这花了一些时间，但德国貌似终将解决的问题是希腊将如何重组债务，而非希腊会否进行债务重组。
I'd rather email than phone, if that's OK by you.
如果你认为可以的话，我想发电邮而不打电话。
I probably look as if I'm in my fifties rather than my seventies.
我可能看起来像五十多岁，而不像七十多岁。
However, if Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few people would bother to go to a museum to read the writer's actual manuscript rather than a printed reproduction.
然而，如果《蒙娜丽莎》是一部著名的小说，可能几乎没有人会放着印刷好的副本不看，而去博物馆参观作者本人当年的手稿了。
Try asking yourself what you'd do if your goal were to be helpful rather than efficient.
试着问问自己，如果你的目标是帮助别人而不是提高效率，你会怎么做。
She explained how proud she and his father would be if he managed to fill the toilet rather than his diaper.
她解释说，如果他能在厕所而不是尿布大小便，她和他的父亲会感到多么自豪。
Computer manufacturers in Japan or Texas will not face hugely bigger freight bills if they import drives from Singapore rather than purchasing them on the domestic market.
如果日本或得克萨斯州的电脑制造商从新加坡进口驱动器，而不是在国内市场购买，它们将不会面临巨额运费的难题。
Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, according to a new study on population published recently.
根据最近发表的一项关于人口的研究，如果老年人要对社会作出贡献而不是成为经济负担，就必须给他们更多学习机会。
If they fail, children should be encouraged to keep trying rather than to give up if they really want the desired result.
如果孩子们失败了，如果他们真的想要达成预期的成果，我们就应该鼓励他们继续努力，而不是让他们放弃。
At the ubiquitous convenience stores throughout Japan, cashiers now ask if customers need chopsticks rather than sticking them into checkout bags by default.
在遍布日本的便利店中，收银员现在会询问顾客是否需要筷子，而不是默认情况下把它们塞进结账袋里。
If you want to make it even harder, use a bag with handles rather than a strap.
如果你想让（偷窃）变得更困难，使用有提手的包而不是有带子的包。
If you rap it with your knuckle, you hear the thwack of gypsum rather than the ring of cold metal.
如果用指关节击之，你能听见石膏的闷响，而非冷冰冰的金属发出的鸣响。
If there's a microphone in front of you, adjust it to the right height, rather than forcing yourself to stoop during the speech.
如果你面前有一个麦克风，把它调到合适的高度，而不是强迫自己在演讲时弯腰。
If people have the opportunity to get a secure job, they should take it right away rather than wait for a job that would be more satisfying.
如果人们有机会获得一份稳定的工作，那么他们应该立即抓住机会，而不是等待一份更令人满意的工作。
If the suspect has no previous criminal record and the judge feels that he will return to court rather than run away, he can go free.
如果犯罪嫌疑人没有前科，并且法官认为他会回到法庭而不是逃跑，那么他可以获得自由。
Some questions to discuss sooner rather than later: If we have kids, will one of us stay home?
早讨论比晚讨论要好：如果我们要孩子，我们中的一个能待在家里吗？
Rather than spend their time checking if you have any new information, you can alert them with right-on-time updates.
您能够及时将更新通知到用户，而无需用户花费时间来检查您是否添加了新信息。
Rather than a financial penalty, if you fail, you have to broadcast that failure to everybody. The shame itself should help keep you on track.
如果你失败了，那么所有人都会知道，比起金钱上的惩罚来，单单为了避免失败引起的羞耻感，都会激励你坚持下去。
Unlike some colleagues, he saw these callers as an opportunity rather than problem-if only they could get beyond their "presenting problem" and talk of their real troubles.
瓦拉先生与他的一些同事不同，他把这些人视为一种机会，而不是难题——只要这些人能够超越自己“提出的问题”并谈谈他们自己真正的困扰。
He was one of the first to appreciate that workers can be more productive if they are managed rather than governed; if they are left to their own devices rather than being continually given orders.
管理工人比同志工人更能让其生产力增加，欧文是第一个提倡这种观点的人，他认为让工人自己支配自己的生产器具要优于不断地派给他们订单。
Don't go overboard creating volumes, though, especially if you use partitions rather than logical volumes.
但是，不要创建过多的卷，尤其是在使用分区而不是逻辑卷的情况下。
That means regulating by function rather than by institution: if something looks like a bank, it should be treated like one.
这意味着实行功能监管而非机构监管：如果有机构在经营银行做的业务，那么就应当比照银行监管它。
My sole reason for keeping it around was based on a hypothetical ‘what if’ rather than a practical, qualitative reason.
我保持它的唯一原因是基于一种假设，而不是一个实际的，定性的原因。
If I really felt like creating, rather than connecting, I should honor that feeling.
假如我真的感觉我是在创造的话，那我应该为此感到自豪。
You can learn a great deal more if you listen rather than rant and rave.
若能试着聆听而不是大叫大嚷的话，你就能学到更多。
But what if, rather than thinking in terms of writing tests and how to test things, you thought about behavior, instead?
但是，如果不考虑编写测试和如何测试，而是考虑行为，结果会如何呢？
But what if, rather than thinking in terms of writing tests and how to test things, you thought about behavior, instead?
但是，如果不考虑编写测试和如何测试，而是考虑行为，结果会如何呢？
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