就英国报界文化的本性来说，我们的报纸宁可选择强调例外也不选择强调稀松平常。

It's in the nature of British press culture that our newspapers choose to highlight the exceptional rather than the run-of-the-mill.

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他至死都捍卫着他文字的神圣，宁可作品不获出版。

He defended until death, or non-publication, the sanctity of his words.

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不，我们宁可要您永远不死。

"No. We'd much rather you never died".

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There is a vagueness to this language that I think is quite calculated, and it relates, in Haze's case, to his determination to not be converted to evil, but to nothing.

他的语言有种刻意而为的模糊感,对他来说，这与他不向罪恶堕落，宁可选择虚无的决心有关系。

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I'd rather not go to the movies.

我宁可不去看电影。

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