Kids would rather play than study.

孩子们宁愿玩而不愿学习。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

They would rather work than live on welfare.

他们宁愿工作而不愿靠社会保障金过活。

《牛津词典》

He himself believed in freedom, so much so that he would rather die than live without it.

他本人如此信奉自由，以至于宁死也不愿没有自由地活着。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

They would rather be in a line than dance two-by-two.

他们宁可在一列中而不是一对一对地运动。

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They would rather lose - because they're sort of screwing around than- they could put out their best game and they would do better, but they might lose anyone given its, sort of, randomness.

他们宁愿因为,自己有点胡来而输掉-,因此他们可以玩出他们最好的技术,而且他们可以做得更好，但是他们也可以因为一定的随机性输给任何人。

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Both people would rather be at an equilibrium than to be mal-coordinated or uncoordinated, but Player 1 wants to go to Bourne ultimatum and Player 2 wants to go to Good Shepherd, and actually I thought Nina's strategy there was pretty good.

每个参与人都觉得达成均衡,总比协调失败要好得多,但是参与人1想看《谍影重重》,而参与人2想看《特工风云》,我觉得妮娜的策略很好

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The 22-year-old who would rather be identified by his pen name than his real one (Yume-Hotaru means "Dreaming Firefly" in Japanese) started composing the novel on his cell phone in 2007.

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In answering that question we must, if "fairly possible, " construe the provision to be a tax rather than a mandate-with-penalty, since that would render it constitutional rather than unconstitutional (ut res magis valeat quam pereat).

WSJ: ObamaCare and the Power to Tax

Overall, if Santa does come the target would be 1230-1240, rather than the 1290-1320 we were talking about two weeks ago.

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