More than seventy-five percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

And it requires us to understand history not in moral terms, such as "good" and "evil," but rather in aesthetic terms.

它需要我们,不是以道德层面去理解历史，去判断好坏“,而是要从审美的角度去看。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.

一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。

Do you mind 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Experts at the Census Bureau estimate that more than sixty percent of Hispanic growth was from "natural increase" rather than migration.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

It's one that is maybe initially counterintuitive but actually, I think, is rather important once you begin to think about it.

乍一听你会觉得不可思议，但是仔细一想就会悟出其中道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"One of the biggest differences I see between Western and Chinese parents is that Chinese parents assume strength rather than fragility."

VOA: special.2011.02.17

Rather, his subtlety shows itself in his deliberate concealment of it, in the ways in which he masks himself in obviousness.

他的狡猾表现在他故意地隐藏这种隐约，而且是以很直白的方式表现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A short time later,John Carter, the Princess and their friend, the green Martian woman Sola, attempt to escape rather than face death.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Milton seems to have dug around rather carefully in his copy of the Faerie Queene, and he's come up with this illusion.

弥尔顿似乎极其小心地模仿着《仙后》,且他出现了这样一种幻想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

Rather, it is another kind of language that he represents that will be that kind of germ of what Sal is looking for.

相反，是代表他自己的另一种语言,倒还有一点大师的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People could now see battlefield deaths as captured by a camera rather than an artist's pen or paintbrush.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

No,according to the personality theory, what personal identity requires isn't item-for-item the same personality, but rather the same evolving personality.

不，根据人格理论，个人认同感并不需要一个完全相同的人格，而是同样在进化的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But,in his words, "A smart entrepreneur should spend his time developing the business rather than the business plan."

VOA: special.2009.06.26

He would also regard the peculiar American practice of elections rather than the Greek practice of appointing political offices by lot.

他也将关注,奇怪的美式选举方式,那有别于透过抽签决定的,希腊式指派政治官位模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The idea is for NASA to buy services for space transportation, rather than spacecraft with existing designs.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Rather, the pauses are inserted by your mind as you already know where one word begins and another one ends.

相反,停顿只是由你的心理活动插入的,因为你已经知道了一个单词的开始,与另一个单词的结束在什么地方

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The bride may buy a used gown rather than paying thousands of dollars for a new one.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Last week, you'll be writing your second paper and I'd rather spend time on that than doing any outside reading.

最后一周，你们会写第二篇论文,我宁愿花时间在那上面,而不愿做一些课外阅读。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He also said: "We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Second thing we've been doing, I want to highlight for you is, we've along the way, mostly just verbally rather than writing it down, but we've been talking about good style.

我们一直在学的第二件事情是,我想给大家强调下，我们一直在口头上说，而没有把它写下来，但是我们一直在说优秀的风格。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al- Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

And what this class will do is talk about how did it become orthodox Christianity, rather than one of the other kinds of Christianity?

这门课程将探讨的话题之一,是如何变成东正教的，而不是其他基督教？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"We initially were rather concerned as how our parents would react, as we came from different religions, different backgrounds, two different parts of the planet.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

I think we can see demonstrative from these charts, that man has done a rather admirable job of imitating the human brain.

我觉得我们可以从这些图表中看到一些说明，人们做了一个非常令人钦佩的工作,来模仿人类的大脑。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He says there are some situations where people should get examined sooner rather than later.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

I'd rather go and if you're going to be stubborn i'd rather go see Bourne Ultimatum with you than not go on a date at all.

如果你固执己见毫不动摇的话,那我就陪你去看《谍影重重》吧,这总比约会失败要好吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

I think the conclusion is that Mill's theory that when a majority of people are asked what they would rather do, they will answer that they would rather engage in a higher pleasure.

我认为结论是，就穆勒的理论而言,当大多数人被问及他们的偏好时，他们都会说自己更愿意选择高级快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Into My Own" . "Legend": "the youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having foresworn the world."

进入自我“，“传奇“,“这个少年被劝诱，如果他放弃世界,他将不再是他自己“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选