I mean, there are so many other things I'd rather do instead, and so I just don't like it.

我的意思是，我宁愿做很多其他的事情，所以我就是不喜欢它。

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Some parents would rather their children rent houses outside the school instead of living a dorm.

有些家长宁愿自己的孩子出去租房住，也不想他们住在学校的寝室里。

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Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.

相反，南方的奴隶主误认为9世纪30年代的废奴主义观点是主流，而不是北方边缘的公众意见，于是他们普遍谴责北方人反对奴隶制。

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But interestingly,things look rather different if we accept not the personality theory, but instead,the body theory.

但有趣的是，如果我们接受的不是人格理论，而是肉体理论，事情会有所不同。

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You can be very indirect and just express what you'd rather do instead.

你可以非常间接地表达你宁愿做其他一些事情。

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And, so, you had this rather odd situation where instead of dogs guarding their masters or mistresses, you had the masters and mistresses guarding the dogs against people who would take the dogs and, unfortunately, kill them and eat them.

真是因为如此,产生了一种奇怪的现象,通常情况下是狗来守护主人的,而现在呢,主人必须时时刻刻保护自己的狗,以免被人抓去宰了吃

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They would rather trade something instead.

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Rather, online has instead provided a better crowd-sourced collection of advice from like-minded consumers, while at the same time making returns easier and less emotional.

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But by the time it was completed in 1598, the Guadalquivir River had begun to silt up, causing all New World trade to move to Cadiz and the building became a rather opulent filing cabinet instead.

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