I would rather he hadn't stayed there too long.
我倒希望他没有在那儿呆太久。
I’d rather he didn’t do it, but I wouldn’t tell him not to.
我宁愿他别那么做，但是我不会阻止他。
They would rather he concentrated on what he was elected to do, passing a balanced budget and lowering taxes.
他们更希望他将注意力集中到他当选后应该做的事情上去，即批准平衡预算和降低税收。
He doesn't really care about impressing the likes of Salvador Dali, but rather he makes amazing art because he has to.
他并不取悦像萨尔瓦多·达利(Salvador Dali)这样的人，但他能创造出神奇的艺术，因为他别无选择。
I'd rather he hadn't come yesterday.
我宁愿他昨天没来。
He agreed, or rather he didn't oppose.
他同意了，更确切地说，他是没有反对。
Ann said that Bill wanted to go alone but that she'd rather he went with a group.
安说比尔想一个人去，但她宁愿他跟一大群人一起去。
Kim: no, sweetheart. I'm an old woman now. I would rather he remember me the way I was.
金：不！亲爱的。我现在已经是个老妇人了。我只愿他记得我当初的样子。
For example he does not want to deal with a mouse and a keyboard, rather he prefers a touch screen.
例如，他不想和鼠标键盘打交道，而更喜欢用触摸屏。
When asked in an interview about his passion for the craft, he stated that he doesn't actually like writing, rather he "enjoys having written".
在某次采访中被问到工作热情，他说他实际上并不喜欢写作，他更喜欢“享受已经写完了”的感觉。
I'd rather he hadn't told me the bad news.
我宁愿他当时不告诉我这个坏消息。
It is not the particular job that pleases Mr. Hayworth. Rather he is hoping his daughter will make the connection between how much she earns each day and what that will buy.
令海沃思先生感到满意的并不是这份特殊工作，而是希望女儿能把自己每天挣多少钱与这些钱的价值联系起来。
It was not Matthew's intention simply to record the bloodline of Abraham and the house of David. Rather he wished to sum up the spiritual rise and fall of God's chosen people in Old Testament time.
马太无意从血统上为亚伯拉罕、大卫续谱，而是从属灵方面总结了旧约时代神选民的兴衰。
Mr Ferris is wise enough not to teach a lesson. Rather, he has teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do.
费里斯先生很明智，他没有在小说里进行说教，而是通过戏谑的方式将人生中的寻常境况变得不同寻常，而这正是我们希望小说家们都去做的。
Rather, he said, the United States wants “a clear set of principles that all of us can abide by so all of us can succeed.”
恰恰相反，他说，美国希望“有一套明确的原则，我们大家都能够遵守，我们大家都可以取得成功。”
Rather, he said, the Obama campaign worked to foster a two-way connection.
他还说道，奥巴马的竞选团队力图培养一条双向沟通的渠道。
Rather, he likens Tsinghua to a respected American state university.
他把清华比作一所受尊敬的美国国立大学。
Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger.
他认为在美利坚合众国没有强大之前，应当采取中立的政策。
Rather, he said, a better policy is to simplify the process of naturalization so these people can become Japanese citizens and vote.
他说，更好的政策应当是简化入籍流程，让这些人能够成为日本公民并参与投票。
Rather, he thinks there should be a recognition that different ways of delivering nicotine also come with different risks.
他的看法是我们应该认识到，不同的尼古丁递送方法，带来的风险也是不同的。
Rather, he insists, firms once derided as copycats and scofflaws should be seen as essential Allies in entering new markets.
相反，他坚持认为，应当把那些曾经被嘲笑为盲目模仿和屡屡违规的公司看作进入新市场的主要同盟。
Rather, he offered his engineers a difficult and interesting problem to solve, confident that someone would want to accept the challenge.
相反，他向他的工程师们提出了一个艰巨但颇为有趣的难题，并且坚信总会有人乐于接受这个挑战。
Rather, he points to research showing that people who use a pedometer or FitBit to measure how much they walk each day take 30% more steps than people who don't.
相反，他指出，有研究表明，使用计步器或FitBit腕带来测量每日步行距离的人，比不使用这些装备的人，每天行走的步数多出30%。
Rather, he probably got wind of the idea of printing through some unknown and lost source.
应该说，他很可能从某些我们不知道的渠道听说了这个技术。
Rather, he probably got wind of the idea of printing through some unknown and lost source.
应该说，他很可能从某些我们不知道的渠道听说了这个技术。
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