He cared for her as a whole person rather than just a sex object.

他喜欢她整个人，而不是仅仅把她当作性对象。

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He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.

他需要一个参谋，而不是独自思考。

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He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle.

他不去面对骗税的审判而是逃到了瑞士。

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"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

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He claims to be studying and learning rather than producing right now; and there's a problem with just studying and learning, and it's a problem that Milton can't avoid.

他坚持学习而不是创作;,但这种单纯地学习存在一个问题，这是个弥尔顿无法回避的问题。

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He makes a perfectly plausible argument to the effect that the question is grammatical rather than rhetorical.

他提出了一个貌似非常可信的论据,大意是说这个问句是语法型的，而不是修辞型的。

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Moreover, if the infected individual is a she, rather than a he, the drugs have a tendency to accumulate in the tissue of the vagina.

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The boy says he wants to become a bank manager rather than a fisherman because he wants money every day.

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The deceased was a recent magna cum laude graduate from an excellent university, but rather than pursue a career he chose to be a full-time volunteer for the needy (a passion of his since elementary school).

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