I would sooner give up sleep than miss my evening class.

我宁愿不睡觉也不愿错过晚间课程。

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If I were a young man I would sooner go to prison than fight for this country.

如果我还是个年轻人，我宁可坐牢也不愿为这个国家去打仗。

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Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes.

福特起誓说，他宁愿把自己的工厂烧毁，也不为战争生产一辆汽车。

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"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

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Since the connection with the poker chips is established through classical conditioning, sooner or later by that logic the poker chips would lose their power to serve as reinforcers.

因为与扑克筹码有关的联结,是通过经典条件作用建立的，所以按照这种逻辑,扑克筹码迟早会失去强化物的作用。

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and you need to leave sooner than you would like to stay.

但是你得比你预期的早一点离开。

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They would sooner lose a few subscribers to 3 than drop their prices.

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His critics would sooner sit down and try to negotiate a loose confederation between the two parts of the island.

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As Alan Greenspan pointed out on January 20th, if the government owned lots of stock, it would sooner or later be tempted to invest with political rather than economic aims in mind.

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