Even when executives began to understand the scale of the risks they were taking, they kept taking on business rather than walk away from deals.

即便是当主管们开始熟知他们正面临的风险规模时，也非但没有中止这些交易而是继续进行。

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Rather than walk nine miles in the rain, he would have curled up on the backseat and gone to sleep, or at least stayed by his car and tried to flag another motorist.

与其在雨中走上九英里，他还不如缩在汽车后座上睡一觉呢，或者至少呆在自己的车边上等待其他路过的车子。

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"Stand rather than sit, walk rather than stand, jog rather than walk, and run rather than jog, "wrote Ulf Ekelund, lead author of the European mortality study, in an email.

研究欧洲病死率的研究员伍尔夫·艾克德隆表示，人们应该能站着就不坐着，能走不就站着，能慢跑就不要走路，能跑步就不要慢跑。

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He faced Cano, who had a run-scoring infield single in the seventh, rather than walk him and pitch to right-handed hitting Vernon Wells.

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Brighton West's remains may be incorporated into a gigantic viewing tower, the i360, in which people will rise in the air, on a vertical pier, rather than walk on water.

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