Had the UK concentrated on building up infrastructure and jobs rather than wasting money on the VAT cut, then we would be in a much stronger position.
要是英国集中精力搞基础设施建设和增加工作岗位而不是把钱浪费在削减增值税上，那么我们就会处于一个强得多的位置。
After all, Japan had none of the credit excesses of America and much of Europe: rather than borrow in recent years, Japan's companies have paid off debts, while households sit on a pile of savings.
毕竟日本不存在像美国或欧洲大部分地区那样的超额信贷：近年来，日本公司并没有举借外债反而已经清偿了债务，而住户们坐拥大量储蓄。
Many of them had made themselves easy targets by concentrating too much on the financial minutiae of future plans rather than looking at the broader picture.
很多商业计划部门太注重未来计划的财务细目而非着眼于更广泛的前景，结果使自己成了裁减的对象。
Moderate drinkers had the lowest prevalence of fatty liver but further checks found it was related more to how often they drank rather than how much.
研究人员发现，在适度饮酒者中罹患脂肪肝的人数最少，在进一步的研究中，他们又发现这和这些人的饮酒量无关，而是和饮酒的频率有关。
Rather than try to understand how I was developing my psychic abilities, they found it much more believable that I had simply decided to rip people off.
相对于努力了解我怎样提高心灵感应能力，他们发现相信我只是想骗钱更容易些。
I think about what Benjamin Franklin wrote to his mother, explaining why he had devoted so much of his time to public service: "I would rather have it said, he lived usefully, than, he died rich."
我回想着本杰明·富兰克林(Benjamin Franklin)写给他母亲的信，解释为何他投入如此多时间在公众服务中：“我不怕说出来，做一个积极工作的有用的人比做一个行尸走肉般的有钱人强。”
Much as I love this Indian summer, I wish we had this warm weather in the summer rather than in October.
尽管我很喜欢秋末温暖的天气，我更希望夏天也能有这个温度而不是十月份。
Rather than adopt a defensive pose and play for penalties, Charlton showed they believed they had just as much chance of winning the game.
查尔顿队显示了他们在这场比赛中赢得胜利的决心，这样比摆出一个防守阵型一直拖到罚点球要好得多。
Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, thing of how much fun you have had close to home.
与其希望你能够去夏威夷度假，不妨想想你在家门口已经找到了多少乐趣。
If you had included how you would write the synchronous code, rather than just some slightly broken asynchronous code, it would've been much easier for me to work out what you intended the code to do.
如果你有你会怎么写同步代码，而不仅仅是一些破碎的异步代码，它就会为我解决你所做的代码更容易。
If you had included how you would write the synchronous code, rather than just some slightly broken asynchronous code, it would've been much easier for me to work out what you intended the code to do.
如果你有你会怎么写同步代码，而不仅仅是一些破碎的异步代码，它就会为我解决你所做的代码更容易。
应用推荐