I wanted to kill him, but instead I just threw him out of the house.

我本想杀了他，但我只是把他撵出了家门。

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I didn't focus on bites, but instead I read about how helpful ants are to the planet.

我没有把注意力放在叮咬上，而是阅读了蚂蚁对地球的帮助。

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I had gone to the beach to enjoy nature but instead I ended up picking up garbage there.

我原打算到海滩来享受自然，但最终却在那儿捡拾垃圾。

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I thought I wasgoing back to Vietnam, but instead they decided the best way for meto fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong, so I was in the special Services, traveling around the country, cheering up wounded veteransand showing'em how to play Ping-Pong.

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But instead in this chemistry course, I will just tell you the solutions to differential equations. And what we can do is we can start with some initial value of r, and here I write r being ten angstroms. That's a good approximation when we're talking about atoms because that's about the size of and atom.

但在这个课里，我会直接，告诉你们微分方程的解,我们可以给距离r一个初始值,我这里把r取10埃,当我们讨论原子时,这是一个很好的近似,因为原子的尺寸。

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But I realize that a lot of people just want to take the easy route and do that instead.

但我后来发现，很多人只想走捷径，以手术代替其他方式。

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But instead I had to worry about meeting my daily quota of orange vegetables.

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But instead I enlisted his help, explained the situation, and knew I had him on my side.

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Well, I considered having the chicken tacos today -- (laughter) -- but instead I had the salmon.

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