Rather than asking questions that have 'yes' or 'no' answers, ask 'how' and 'why' questions.
不要问那些答案是“是”或“不是”的问题，而是问“如何”和“为什么”这样的问题。
Fix your fries Rather than asking for medium fries, get an order of onion rings (8 to 9 rings). Saves 60.
修正你的薯条量：与其要一份中份薯条不如点个洋葱圈(8到9个圈)。
He says the prosecutors spent most of the time arguing against the testimony rather than asking questions.
他说，公诉人的大部分时间是在对证词进行辩论，而不是提问。
Rather than asking the application to launch a dialog, a user tells a dialog to go away and not come back again.
与其让程序发起对话框，不如用户停止对话框，并且让对话框不再出现。
The Confair line of furniture adapts to the people rather than asking people to conform to the furniture, supporting the new workplace.
Confair系列家具是要适应人仧的 需求而丌是要求人仧去适应家具设施，他仧支持这种新的工作场所。
But rather than asking questions, she'd kept on with the dinner dishes, this resigned look on her face, as if she'd expected him to ask such a thing.
但她根本没有问问题，只是继续吃着盘里的菜，脸上那幅顺从的表情好像是早就知道他要这样做似的。
Here's the trick: rather than asking your business experts to measure business value after delivery (difficult!), have them estimate it beforehand.
关键之处在于：不要让你的业务专家在交付之后度量业务价值(这样很难！)，先让他们估算。
This allows the SSH program to request an already decrypted key, rather than asking you for the private key's secret passphrase each time it's required.
它允许ssh程序请求已解密密钥，而不是每次需要时都要求您提供私钥的密码短语。
It can look cool and it can be a visible indicator of what the hunter is doing rather than asking people to pay even more attention to tiny buff ICONS.
它能成为一个猎人正在做什么的可视化指示，而不是让人把更多的注意力放在哪怕一点点buff上。
Take your best guess and act rather than asking first. Too many choices and decisions make people unhappy. Just in case you get it wrong, allow for 'undo'.
做最好的猜测，先做而非先问。太多的选择和决定会令人不愉。只当你可能会犯错时，才提供个‘撤消’，然后仍然先做后问。
Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application consists of several short response questions and essays designed to help us get to know you.
与其要求你写一个长作，麻省理工学院的申请程序由几个短问题和作文组成，旨在帮助我们了解你。
Mr Colander thinks the imperative to publish frequently forces young economists to tackle bite-sized problems, rather than asking big questions with distant, uncertain answers.
科兰德认为，经常发表论文成为必要条件，迫使年轻的经济学者去解决细枝末节的小问题，而不是探究一些深远的没有确定答案的大问题。
On the other hand, a study at the University of California at San Diego measured participants' blood pressure and heart rate rather than asking them to describe their responses.
另一方面，在圣地亚哥加利福尼亚大学的一项研究中，研究者测量了志愿者血压和 心律。
If a task is to be performed on a routine basis or the task requested is complex, requiring data manipulation, rather than asking users always to type the commands, a shell script becomes useful.
如果需要定期执行某项任务，或者任务非常复杂、需要进行数据处理，同时不需要用户反复键入各种命令，则适合使用shell脚本。
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。
So rather than sneer at Europe’s impotence, the world should be asking whether Europecan rediscover its vigour—and if so how.
因此人们应该问问欧洲是否能够重新找到其活力——并且如果能，怎样找到，而不是嘲笑欧洲的无能。
"Think of negotiating as an ongoing conversation, rather than just a big, rare event like asking for a raise, " Allyn suggests.
艾琳建议：“把谈判当作一次常规的谈话，而不是类似要求加薪一样重大而不寻常的事件。
How to practice it: Work on having an opinion or asking for the other person's view of things rather than just throwing a remark out there.
怎样实行：自己要有对事物的看法或者你可以询问别人对某事的看法，而不是自己说完一句话就完了。
And rather than listening to, or asking their customers what they wanted; Apple would solve problems customers didn't know they had with products they didn't even realize they wanted.
不是倾听或者询问消费者需要什么，苹果宁愿解决客户们所不知道关于他们还没有意识到的需要的产品的问题。
This clearly results from a misreading of the question as asking about a state rather than a country.
这明显就是对问题的误读，以为是要你回答州名而不是国家。
You need to grab your audience from the beginning by asking questions, telling stories and relying on your own speaking rather than a bunch of boring slides.
你一开始就要通过提问来抓住听众的注意力，讲故事，并且要靠自己讲，不要靠一堆无聊的幻灯片。
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]。
Rather than chasing the market's tail, the Fed ought to be asking what the markets' fall really signals.
与其被市场牵着鼻子走，美联储倒不如认真解读市场下跌的信号。
Nowadays, you still see people with cardboard signs by the side of the road, and they are still asking for something, but more often money or work rather than a ride somewhere.
如今，你仍会在路边见到举着纸板求助的人，但他们要的是钱或者工作，不再是顺风车了。
They repeat mantras about "breaking all the rules" and "asking for forgiveness rather than permission".
他们高喊：“打破常规”和“宽容多于理解”。
Myfamily cleverly starts new users on a page where they can create a site, rather than first asking for a username and password, as is done by many sites.
Myfamily对待新用户的做法相当高明，他们可以在新登录时就着手创建自己家族的网站，而不是像许多网站那样先要输入用户名和密码。
When designing a new XForm, you usually begin by asking what data you want to collect rather than what it will look like.
设计新的XForm时，通常首先要知道采集什么数据而不是表单是什么样子。
When designing a new XForm, you usually begin by asking what data you want to collect rather than what it will look like.
设计新的XForm时，通常首先要知道采集什么数据而不是表单是什么样子。
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