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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。

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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

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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.

CNN: Cell phone stories writing new chapter in print publishing

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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