It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there firstly, and secondly, whether or not we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，我们是否应该诉诸作者的权威。

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He should think rather of his place in history.

他应该反思他在历史上的地位。

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Despite these challenges, for people like Foster, the adoption of grid computing is not a question of if but rather of when.

尽管有这些难题，但对于像Foster这样的人来说，采用网格计算不是要不要的问题，而是什么时候的问题。

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(JANIS JOPLIN - "BALL AND CHAIN") The music ended on Sunday night or,rather,the early hours of Monday, August eighteenth.

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You see you cannot tell the height or the depth rather of a pool based on the average.

只知道平均值,并不知道游泳池的水深。

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It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。

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Earning this merit is no longer a function of title and rank but rather of effectiveness and perceived ethics.

FORBES: The End of Leadership--at Least As We Know It!

The problem was not one of supply, Posen suggested, but rather of demand.

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Those fiascos were the result not of a shortage of generating capacity, but rather of the failings of an antiquated grid.

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