This is because of the following three reasons: Firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief.
这是因为以下三个原因：第一，小偷只偷我的东西，而没有伤害我；其次，小偷偷走了我的一些东西，而不是我所有的东西；第三，对我来说最幸运的是，成为小偷的是那个人，不是我。
She complained in her police statement that during the train ride to her hometown, "he paid more attention to his computer rather than me."
她在她的警方陈述里解释，在去她家乡的火车旅程中，“他更看重他的电脑而不是我。”
But I began to talk with professors, saying if you can give me some time to talk, rather than me speaking up and jumping in, I can answer questions.
但我开始与教授交谈，我说，如果你们能给我一些时间发言，而不是让我在讨论中插话，我便可以回答问题。
Harvay: I missed the plane, I lost my job, and my daughter, who's getting married today, decided that she wanted her stepfather rather than me to give her away, okay?
哈维：我错过了飞机，丢了工作，我那今天出嫁的女儿，决定在婚礼上让她继父把她嫁出去。
The search engine just gave me some brief introduction rather than the whole content of the book.
关于这本书，搜索引擎只是给了我一些简短的介绍，而没有给出全部内容。
Disappointingly, the search engine just gave me some brief introductions rather than the whole content of the book to read.
令人失望的是，搜索引擎只给了大概的介绍而没有给出要读的书的全部内容。
You see, I want to do philosophy rather than English, but my parents took me out of it.
你瞧，我想学哲学而不是英语，但我父母不让我学哲学。
It seems to me that creative writing is a process of recalibration, really, rather than of creativity in the ordinary sense.
在我看来，创造性写作实际上是一个重新校准的过程，而不是一般意义上的创造力。
Rather than rushing off to locate the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me so I could show her where she could find it.
我没有急着去找那个女人的DVD，而是让她和我一起走，这样我就可以告诉她在哪能找到它。
I would rather know this as soon as possible, rather than having it pointed out to me at my performance review, or worse, at my exit interview.
我宁愿尽可能早地知道这些，而不是在我的绩效评审的时候，或者更糟的是在我的辞退面谈时才知道。
They wooed me back. They loved me back to fellowship with God, to finding Him as the answer to my pain rather than the alcohol.
他们恳请我回到教会，他们爱我，希望我能恢复与神的关系，向神寻找痛苦的解决办法而不是沉迷酒精。
Some people I socialise with may think of me as @MartinSFP rather than as ‘Martin Bryant’ but so what?
我交往的许多人，认为我是@马丁布莱恩特，而不是“马丁布莱恩特”，可这是为什么呢？
But for me, whenever playing the piano or giving a presentation becomes about performing - about proving something, rather than communicating - I rarely do well.
但是对我来说，当弹钢琴或做演示这些行为更看重结果表现，而不是为了交流过程时，我总是不能做得很好。
I would like that community to respect me enough to keep giving me new ideas rather than insist I subscribe to an orthodoxy.
我愿意被社区所尊敬，以至于可以一直给我新的想法，而不是坚持让我订阅正统的说法。
Family life is a set of givens, someone once told me, and it takes courage to see certain givens as blessings rather than as curses.
家庭生活是一系列的给予，曾经有人告诉我，真正的将他人的给予看成恩赐而非诅咒是需要勇气的。
I prefer going after what I want rather than waiting for it to come to me.
对于我想要的东西，我更愿意去追求而不是干坐着等。
Rather than giving you a lengthy explanation, let me just point you to the Strategy pattern.
让我简单的说一下关键的策略模式而不是给你一段冗长的解释。
Several researchers have since emphasized to me that, while R might be statistical rather than scientific in some pedantic sense, it's so important that it deserves prompt attention.
有一些研究人员曾经向我强调说，虽然从书面意义看来R可能更接近于统计学而不是科学，但是它非常重要并值得我们关注。
Allow me time to get my thoughts out rather than interrupting my typing.
给我些时间让我表达想法，而不是打断我打字。
I offer my family the same opportunity to accept and love me as I am rather than seeing me as a blasted hope, whose life has suffered a sad and irreversible loss.
我给予我的家人同样的机会接受并且爱我，像我自己一样。而不是，将我视作破碎的希望——生活遭受伤痛和无法挽回的损失。
Though in recent seasons they've grown on me and Id rather have them win trophies than United, but Fergie remains as successful as ever.
尽管最近几个赛季他们开始征服我的心，而且我也确实希望他们盖过曼联，但弗格森依然无法战胜。
Rather than focus on the innuendo about my motives and beliefs in the review, let me focus instead on differences of substance.
抛开我在评论中关于电影和信仰的含沙射影，我们把注意力放到不同的实体基础上。
Rather than turn his anger upon me (Western response), the young man tried to explain that this was his girlfriend and that they were perfectly capable of working things out.
他并没有将他的怒气转移到我身上(西方人就会这样做)，而是试图向我解释说，那名女子是他的女朋友，他们自己可以很好地解决双方的问题。
Oh and for the record I'd rather a waiter say, “Have a nice day” and not mean it, than ignore me and mean it.
对了，我宁愿服务生违心地对我说“祝你今天过得愉快”，而不是打从心底地忽视我
Oh and for the record I'd rather a waiter say, "Have a nice day" and not mean it, than ignore me and mean it.
对了，我宁愿服务生违心地对我说“祝你今天过得愉快”，而不是打从心底地忽视我。
I especially enjoy the ones where the person is actively developing a relationship with me, rather than just collecting data.
我特别喜欢那些能与受访者积极建立关系、而不是仅仅搜集信息的的人。
Each server instance has an active messaging engine, rather than the single active me in the golden topology.
每个服务器实例有一个活动的消息传递引擎，这与黄金拓扑中的一个活动ME不同。
Each server instance has an active messaging engine, rather than the single active me in the golden topology.
每个服务器实例有一个活动的消息传递引擎，这与黄金拓扑中的一个活动ME不同。
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