无疑，他是认真的，而不是在闹着玩。

There was no doubt he was serious, it wasn't just playing around.

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我们是在饭店吃的饭，而不是在小酒馆。

We ate in the restaurant, as opposed to the bistro.

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你在直接购买，而不是通过代理商购买。

You are buying direct, rather than through an agent.

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In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

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so you play on a grass as opposed to on the clay

所以，你在绿茵场上比赛，而不是在粘泥土上，

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These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.

而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性，在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。

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