What if instead of joining a health insurance plan, you could buy a membership directly from a hospital or doctor?

除了加入某个健康保险计划一途外，如果你直接花钱成为某医院或医生的会员那会怎样？

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Imagine if instead of keys for individual letters, a keyboard displayed keys for entire words. That would make things quite slow and awkward.

设想，如果键盘上的每个键不是代表一个字母而是每个键都表示一个单词，那么使用起来将多么缓慢而笨拙。

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But if instead of chasing sleep you let your body relax and your mind be at ease, sleep will come to you.

但如果不去追逐睡意，而是放松你的身体，让头脑舒适，睡意自然会再次光顾。

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If you use an alcohol-based product instead of soap and water, make sure it contains at least sixty percent alcohol.

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But at the last moment, His brother Judah convinces the brothers that, if instead of killing him, they sell him, they can profit a little for their troubles. So Joseph is sold ultimately ends up in the household of Pharaoh in Egypt, and his adventures there prove his meritorious character.

但是在最后一刻，他的哥哥犹太说服了其余的兄弟们，不要杀他，如果卖了他，他们还能从中获利，于是约瑟夫就被卖了,他最后生活在埃及一个法老的家里，他在那儿的冒险也证明了他值得称道的品格。

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But what if instead of taking the fluid from a cow, I inoculated--he inoculated me, let's say, and waited until I had the lesion at the right stage, then took some of my fluid and gave it to Brian and Nate and Mirtalla and spread it through the community around me.

但假如不从奶牛那儿取得脓液,假设说是从他那里接种,等到病变程度合适,然后把我的脓液给,布莱恩和纳特还有米特拉,并在我身边的人们之间传播

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But what if instead of a perpetual sole proprietorship, your dream is an empire?

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Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance.

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Would our lives be better if instead of Apple we has ten thousand small computer companies?

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