It was a jest rather than a reproach.
这是个玩笑而非指责。
You end up with a mishmash of policies rather than a consistent national approach.
你最后得到的是一些杂会七杂八的政策，而不是统一的全国性措施。
The last two clauses were an exact quote rather than a paraphrase of Mr. Forth's remarks.
最后两个分句是对福思先生言论的准确引用而不是改述。
They opted to put an executive committee in charge of the project rather than a single person.
他们选择由一个执行委员会而非个人来负责这个项目。
Heat the liquid in a large, wide container rather than a high narrow one, or it can boil over.
液体加热时要放进宽大的容器里，不要放进细长的容器里，否则它会溢出来。
It's his parents' choice to send him to a boarding school, rather than a convenient day school.
把他送到寄宿学校而不是去附近的走读学校，是他父母的决定。
Goldberg calls the problem a disorder rather than a true addiction.
戈德堡称这个问题是一种障碍，而不是真正的上瘾。
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。
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。
Let us make Sunday a day of rest and renewal rather than a day of travel and toil.
就让我们把星期天定为休息和恢复精力日，不要把它作为旅行和劳累日吧。
I guess the true magic at work involved her computer rather than a wand and a broom.
我猜她的电脑才是真正的魔法，而不是魔杖和扫帚。
Earthquake sites should be regarded as a sad memory rather than a tool to bring in money.
地震遗址应被当作悲伤的回忆，而不应沦为赚钱的工具。
"Rather than a case of abject failure, Rapu Nui is an unlikely story of success," they claim.
他们声称：“拉普努伊不是一个悲惨的失败案例，而是一个不太可能成功的故事。”
You'll have to make social media an occasional activity rather than a daily, time-consuming habit.
你将不得不让使用社交媒体成为一项偶尔为之的活动，而不是每天都要做的、耗费时间的习惯。
The scientists working on the project opted to build a 4G rather than a fifth generation or 5G network.
参与该项目的科学家选择了建设4G网络，而不是第五代或5G网络。
Propulsion is provided by a rocket engine, rather than a propeller and rudder, which makes steering difficult.
推进器是由火箭发动机提供的，而不是螺旋桨和方向舵，这使得转向变得困难。
When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.
当我们让青少年选择一位英雄时，他们通常会选择家里的一位长辈，而不是一个关系疏远的公众人物。
One characteristic of Earth's orbit is its eccentricity, the degree to which the orbit is an ellipse rather than a circle.
地球轨道的一个特点是它的离心率，也就是轨道是椭圆而不是圆形的程度。
When a dark-colored cake was served on a black plate rather than a white one, customers recognized it as sweeter and more tasty.
当黑色的蛋糕放在黑色盘子里而不是白色盘子里时，顾客认为它更甜更好吃。
The exoplanet is a few times the mass of Earth, but it should still be small enough to be rocky rather than a gas giant like Jupiter.
这个系外行星的质量是地球的几倍，但是它足够小，能够由岩石构成，而不是像木星是一团巨大的气体。
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。
Traditionally, legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers, rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person.
按照传统的观点，在这些大学里学习法律一直被看作是律师的专门工作，而不是一个受过良好教育的人所必须具备的知识素养。
However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organizations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.
然而，正如哈佛大学的艾米·埃德蒙森所指出的那样，越来越多的组织将“团队”用作动词而非名词，原因是他们往往为了一些特殊目的组建团队，之后迅速地又解散团队。
We often think of drawing as something that takes inborn talent, but this kind of thinking stems from our misclassification of drawing as, primarily, an art form rather than a tool for learning.
我们经常认为绘画需要天赋，但这种想法源于我们的错误分类——绘画主要是一种艺术形式，而不是一种学习工具。
These variations are normal, and it's more useful to think of life as something that is ever evolving and changing, rather than a high risk enterprise where things could go wrong with one misstep.
这些变化很正常，我们不应把生活看作是运营一家高风险公司，一步错就步步错，而应把生活视为一个持续发展和变化的过程，这将会大有裨益。
Recognising obesity as a chronic disease with severe complications rather than a lifestyle choice "should help reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by many people with obesity," he adds.
认识到肥胖是一种伴有严重并发症的慢性疾病，而不是一种生活方式的选择，“应该有助于减少许多肥胖人士所经历的耻辱和歧视。”他补充道。
The output is a phenogram rather than a phylogram.
输出是一个表征图而不是系统发生图。
Some passages include mistakes that may be explained on the basis of an English rather than a Greek Vorlage.
有些段落包含一些错误，这些错误可能是基于英语而不是希腊语来解释的。
Shouldn't deferral be a conscious decision rather than a rule?
我们难道不应该把推迟作为一种有意识的决定，而不是一种规则吗？
XSLT is a functional language rather than a procedural one.
XSLT是一种函数式语言而不是过程性语言。
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