He would rather be a plumber's mate and do a real job that requires doing than learning about hydrostatics sitting at a desk, without understanding what practical use they are going to be.

他宁愿做一个水管工的伙伴，做一份真正需要动手的工作，也不愿坐在桌子前学习流体静力学，而不知道这些东西有什么实际用途。

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Frank didn't understand why Jack would rather do artistic things than play ball.

弗兰克不明白为什么杰克宁愿投身艺术也不愿打球。

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If it's true that we would rather initiate change than have it thrust upon us, then why do we not do it more often?

确实如此，我们宁愿发起改变，而不喜欢强加的改变。那么，我们为什么不更多地发起改变呢？

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What the vaccine would aim to do is achieve that in a much more rapid process rather than losing many people's lives and people experiencing a lot of illness before they develop immunity."

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But that would get very boring, so rather than do that, let's draw a picture.

不过这样做会很枯燥,与其一个一个地算,不如我们画张图吧

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So to just preface what we're going to do next time, what would happen if I wanted to do sort, and rather than in sorting the entire list at once, I broke it into pieces, and sorted the pieces, and then just figured out a very efficient way to bring those two pieces and merge them back together again?

所以为了引导下一次,我们要讲的内容,如果我想做排序,而且不是一次吧整个列表排完,会发生什么，我把它拆成小的列表,然后把各个小列表排序,接着用高效的方法再把小的列表？

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That's something Legg says he would rather do than live as a diabetic.

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Russell Brand voices the main character, a rabbit who would rather play the drums than do his time as the Easter Bunny.

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On Christmas day, I can think of a lot of things I would like to do rather than counsel a man about prison.

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