A poet who wants to write blues can attempt to avoid this problem by poeticizing the form—but literary blues tend to read like bad poetry rather than like refined folk song.
一个想写蓝调的诗人可以尝试通过把蓝调诗意化来避免这个问题，但是文学蓝调读起来更像糟糕的诗歌而不是优雅的民歌。
It waddled towards the pool, looking less like a predator than like an elderly sumo wrestler tottering uncertainly towards a bout with a reigning champion.
它摇摇摆摆地走向水池，看起来不像是一个食肉动物，而更像是一个年老的相扑选手蹒跚地走向和卫冕冠军的一场较量。
Whereas Biro had once spoken of the absolute objectivity and infallibility of fingerprint analysis, he now sounded more like a connoisseur than like a scientist.
而比罗曾经谈起指纹分析时，说它”完全客观，绝无过错“；但现在他讲话就像个艺术品鉴赏家，而不是一个科学家。
So I think that it's more like how you spend your time doing stuff type of question, or type of answer than like something that I've learned specifically from college.
所以我觉得这个问题的关键更像是在于你如何支配自己的时间去做各种事情,而不是在于我在大学里学到什么具体的技能。
The path to each decision is so short and irresistible, more like an electric pulse than like a weighing of options, that the reader is hard-pressed to explain what happened.
每一个决定的过程，都如此短暂而无法反对，与其说是各种选择间的衡量（读者很难去解释选择过程中到底发生了什么），不如说是电光火石般就完成了。
Scene 1: Harry Potter was born a wizard but after Voldemort, an evil wizard, kills his parents, he is raised by his relatives, the Dursleys, who treats him more like vermin than like a family member.
场景一：哈利·波特生下来就是一名巫师，自从坏巫师伏地魔杀害了他的亲生父母后，他便被交由亲戚德斯礼一家抚养，他们待他不像亲人而更像害虫。
Natural fabrics like silk and wool are better insulators than synthetics.
丝绸和羊毛之类的纯天然织物比合成纤维更加保暖。
The opening speeches sounded more like declarations of war than offerings of peace.
那些开幕辞听起来更像宣战书而不是和平倡议。
Some people think that people who prefer to read for pleasure will have better imagination and language skills than people who like watching TV.
有些人认为喜欢读书消遣的人比喜欢看电视的人有更强的想象力和语言能力。
I like tomatoes more than pumpkins.
比起西红柿，我更喜欢南瓜。
We know that some people are more affected than others, like children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and people of color.
有些人比其他人更容易受到影响，比如儿童、老人、残疾人和有色人种。
I like this jacket better than that one, but it costs almost three times as much.
相比那件，我更喜欢这件夹克衫，但它的价格几乎是那件的三倍。
It sounds like she treats the dog better than she treats you.
听起来好像她对待那只狗比对你更好。
Ant societies existed in something like their present form more than seventy million years ago.
蚂蚁社会大约在七千万年前就以类似现在的形式存在。
Many of these have minuscule limbs; some look more like snakes than lizards and a few have completely lost the toes on their hind limbs.
其中很多动物都有细小的四肢；有些看起来更像蛇而不是蜥蜴，还有一些完全失去了后肢的脚趾。
To ensure that your resume works for (and not against) you, I recommend writing it more like a proposal than a job description.
为了确保你的简历对你有利（而不是不利），我建议你把它写得更像一份提案，而不是一份工作描述。
Although it might sound a lttle far from you, living in a "smart" city like this could happen sooner than you think.
虽然听起来有点遥远，但生活在这样一个“智能”城市可能比你想象得要快。
Under certain conditions, electrons can behave like waves rather than particles.
在某些条件下，电子能像波而不是粒子那样运动。
I like to make suggestions rather than setting down laws and forcing people to follow them.
我喜欢提建议而不是制定法律并强迫人们去遵守。
If a boy is thinner or heavier than he would like to be, the stress and anxiety of participating in physical education may be prohibitive.
如果一个男孩比他想要的更瘦或更重，参加体育课的压力和焦虑可能会让他望而却步。
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than more tools.
如今的家用机器人可以做普通的家务，而社交机器人更像是一种陪伴，而不是工具。
Mr. Chou can sound more like a Californian management guru than an Asian corporate patriarch.
周先生听起来更像是一位加州管理专家，而不是一位亚洲公司的创始人。
The Man Angel was lighter-than-air and had paddles like a rowboat that the aviator could pump.
“人类天使”比空气还轻，有像划艇一样的桨，飞行员可以摇动它们。
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。
When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle.
就生理机能而言，棱皮龟从某种程度上来说更像一只爬虫类的鲸，而非海龟。
Unlike a thorn, a prickle can be easily broken off the plant because it is really a feature of the outer layers rather than part of the wood, like a thorn.
与刺不同，皮刺能够被轻易地从植物茎上剥落，因为它仅仅是植物外层的一种特征，而不像刺那样是树木的一部分。
Social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.
社交机器人将会更像是人类的伙伴，而不仅仅是工具。
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.
现今，家用机器人做一般的家务，而社交机器人则更像是伙伴而不仅仅是一种工具。
Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.
或许，面临缺乏人情味且令人生畏的全球化冲击时，家庭对于年轻人而言，或许更像是友好的避风港，而非压抑的牢笼。
Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.
或许，面临缺乏人情味且令人生畏的全球化冲击时，家庭对于年轻人而言，或许更像是友好的避风港，而非压抑的牢笼。
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