Many volunteers choose to hurt themselves rather than endure boredom.

许多志愿者宁可选择伤害自己，也不愿忍受无聊的生活。

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What made you choose the one rather than the other?

你怎么选了这个而不是那个？

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You have a choice, and I always choose to work days rather than nights.

你可以选择，我总是选择白天工作而不是晚上工作。

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

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And once I know that she's going to choose Alpha, it's clear that I should choose Alpha and get 0 rather than Beta and get -3. So I should choose Alpha also.

一旦我意识到她会选α的时候,很显然我应该也选α来得到0单位效用,而不是选β只得到-3,所以我也选α

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All detainees are allowed to choose deportation rather than prison, but because of the apparent danger of returning to regimes from which they fled, only two have left.

BBC: War Against Terror

It is better for an individual organization to choose one focus and perform well, rather than choose both SME and IDE, leaving the organization unfocused and unsuccessful.

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At those hearings, Mr Schumer said that he plans to ask Microsoft president Steve Ballmer why the company will not allow consumers to "choose the best application, rather than letting Microsoft choose Microsoft applications for them".

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