Good writing most often occurs when you are in hot pursuit of an idea rather than in a nervous search for errors.

优秀的文章通常诞生在你热切寻找一个灵感的时候，而不是在你紧张地寻找错误的时候。

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Stay in a hotel rather than in a family home trapped with the difficult person.

与其在家中与其怄气，不如搬到宾馆去住。

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Presents, but I prefer to give gifts in non-competitive games rather than in a really important World Cup qualifier.

给对方送了大礼，但我觉得在这种友谊赛中送礼总比在真正重要的世界杯预选赛上送礼要好。

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But,in his words, "A smart entrepreneur should spend his time developing the business rather than the business plan."

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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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These anachronisms and confused chronologies in the patriarchal stories are the rule rather than the exception in their view, and they are evidence of a very late date of composition.

在他们看来，这些年代错误和混乱的时间线,在族长故事中是普遍现象而不是例外，明显是十分近代的作品。

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It's one of those things where people have an interest historically, rather than in a gruesome way.

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He remembers learning to play music in an immersive way, rather than in a formulaic sequence of lessons.

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In both cases, innocence or guilt resides in the court of public opinion rather than in a jury verdict.

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