Let's finish the job today, rather than leaving it till tomorrow.
不定式，后：分词我们把这项工作今天做完，而不是拖到明天。
Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.
他们等暴风雪小了之后再走。
Those failing to reach this at 16 will keep trying, rather than leaving.
16岁时未能达到这一标准的，将继续参加考试，不能毕业。
I always prefer starting early, rather than leaving everything to the last minute.
我总是愿意早开始而不愿意把所有事情都留到最后才做。
I always prefer starting early, rather than leaving everything to the last minute.
我做事总喜欢赶早而不愿意把事情拖到最后。
I always prefer starting early, rather than leaving everything to the last minute.
任何事情我总是喜欢早点做，不要到最后。
He always prefers starting early, rather than leaving everything to the last minute.
他总是愿意早开始而不愿意把所有事情都留到最后才做。
We choose to deal with challenges now rather than leaving them for future generations.
我们选择现在迎接挑战而非将其留给后代。
Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
当然，那要假设他们在不用电视的时候记着关掉它而不是让电视一直保持待机状态。
As a sports man, I always prefer starting early, rather than leaving everything to the last minute.
作为一个运动员，我总是愿意早开始而不愿意把所有事情都留到最后。
You increase your odds of success by using scientifically proven concepts rather than leaving everything to chance.
运用经过科学验证的观念，不要凡事只想靠运气，成功机率将会大大提升。
Rather than leaving it to guesswork, SyncML allows for each device to indicate the size of the message it can handle.
SyncML 没有任由设备凭空猜测消息的大小，而是允许每一种设备都指明它能够处理多大的消息。
By learning to implement what you design rather than leaving it orphaned in the hands of developers - you increase your value.
通过学习实现你自己的设计，而不是让设计成为开发者手中的孤儿——你提升了自身价值。
Take the pets to a sitter, or board them, rather than leaving them in the house with some neighbor stopping in to check on them.
把宠物交给临时照看人或者给他们提供好食物，不要把它们留在屋子里让你的邻居不时地去照看它们。
Now that the map is functional, you can zoom the map to your area of interest, rather than leaving it zoomed out to the entire United States.
地图已经可以发挥作用后，现在就可以将地图缩放到您感兴趣的区域，而不是让地图保持缩小于整个美国。
Now, rather than leaving a throw-away or otherwise unnecessary comment on a friend's status update, you can show your appreciation by just clicking "like" instead.
现在，如果你欣赏某位好友，你不必在其状态更新里留下一句废话或者没必要的评论，只要点一下“喜欢”按钮就行了。
Iterative development acknowledges this fact and helps you identify significant problems earlier in the project rather than leaving them all to be discovered at the end.
迭代式开发虽然也认同这一事实，并帮助你在项目开发初期识别一些重要的问题，而不是把这些问题留在后期解决。
All you had to do was to press the switch marked 'attention set' rather than leaving the one on that says' Oh, I'll get it on the second or third try '. A matter of habit.
你所要做的就是按下那个“注意设置”的按钮，而不是在那里说：“我还有二次、第三次机会”——一种做事的习惯。
After years working, the owner, which is a local carpenter, has a big stock of scrap wood that he wishes to give another life to them rather than leaving it fall into oblivion.
业主是当地的一个木匠，多年的工作积累了大量的边角料，他希望为这些看似废材的边角料赋予新的生命，以免被白白丢弃遗忘。
Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving "to pursue my goal of running a company".
他没有像往常一样用含糊不清的借口来掩饰自己的离职，而是直截了当地表示，他离开是“为了追求自己经营一家公司的目标”。
Security systems to deal with Web threats have been bolted on rather than incorporated into SCADA systems, leaving holes that hackers can penetrate.
处理网页威胁的安全系统没有切入到SCADA系统，这给黑客攻击留下了漏洞。
Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving "to pursue my goal of running a company."
他没有忸怩的用平常的模糊的理由来遮掩他的离开，他很坦诚的讲他离开就是为了去追求他经营一家公司的目标。
Using the XML data model, the whole hierarchy of data object wrappers can be eliminated, leaving the programmer to focus on the business logic rather than on the business data management.
通过使用XML数据模型，就可以取消整个数据对象包装器层次结构，让开发人员将注意力集中在业务逻辑上，而不会为业务数据管理分心。
Because it is based on chemical rather than purely visual data, it can discover what else people touched before leaving their prints.
因为它是基于化学而不是纯粹的视觉数据，能够检测出留下指纹的人之前碰过的其他物体。
Rather than expanding the scope of a new product, hoping to impress, they pare it back, leaving a solid foundation upon which to build.
不是拓展新产品的范围，希望产品瞩目，他们只是在不断的削减，而最终保留一个版本。
Households often opt to stay put rather than default, leaving them trapped in places with high unemployment and unable to move to where jobs are plentiful.
为了避免违约，家庭通常选择留在原地不动，困在失业率高的地方，而不能搬到就业机会丰富的地方。
But rather than designing his own plan, he is leaving it to Congress to take the lead by crafting a bill which he hopes to sign before year's end.
但他并没有亲自设计计划书，而是让国会带头起草法案，并希望于年底前签署。
Rather than brokering transactions, Alibaba charges suppliers for listing items and for extra promotion, leaving them to seal the transaction off the site.
但阿里巴巴并不是扮演经纪行的角色，该网站向供应商收取发布产品信息和额外推广的费用，让他们在网站之外达成交易。
Design diagrams are crossed off rather than updated. This is better than leaving the design out of date.
设计图被划掉而不是更新，这样好过保留过时的设计。
You can achieve great flexibility and power by keeping APIs highly open and minimally specified, leaving customization at the application level rather than the library level.
保持API 的高度开放性，减少专门化的成分，将定制的工作留到应用程序级上而是留在库这一级别上，这样做可以获得最大的灵活性和强大的功能。
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