would rather A than B 意为“宁愿做
rather than a bachelor 而不是单身汉
Rather than a teacher robot 不是老师而是机器人
Rather than a computer game 而不是电脑游戏
Rather Than A Man 而不做人
Rather Than A He 而不男性话
He cared for her as a whole person rather than just a sex object.
他喜欢她整个人,而不是仅仅把她当作性对象。
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。
Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
会议的确开得有板有眼,但并没有什么戏剧性。
People could now see battlefield deaths as captured by a camera rather than an artist's pen or paintbrush.
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In the coordination game, where the idea is to try and get people to coordinate on a particular equilibria rather than on another equilibria, or worse still, to be uncoordinated entirely.
在协调博弈中,领导力的作用就是促成人们达成,某个特定均衡而不是其他均衡,甚至是完全缺乏协调的混乱状态
In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.
这样,我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。
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