There was once a gentleman—I had rather he had been a lady.

曾经有个先生——我倒希望他是个女士。

youdao

I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must meet within your journey.

我宁死，也不愿让你在旅途中冒这样大的危险。

youdao

Forests are spreading in almost all Western countries, with the fastest growth in places that historically had rather few trees.

几乎所有西方国家的森林都在扩大，过去树木相当少的地方增长最快。

youdao

"There's been a nice recovery since the horrible 2008,2009 drop but we're still below where we were when the crisis began and all through that you had record output of jetliners, so we've got this rather dangerous overcapacity situation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

I wish I had pleasured myself rather than serving that wicked God."

我希望我让自己开心而不是为邪恶的上帝服务“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So the version I'd like you to have uses, that, greater than rather than equals that I had in my handout.

因此我希望大家用我说的这个，把课堂手册中的等于换成大于,这里cmp方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The increased supply of doctors is welcome because Britain has historically had rather few in relation to its population.

ECONOMIST: The NHS needs to diet

If that had rather continued as before, it would now be 10% higher.

BBC: Is the Bank of England doing enough?

Her decision, they say, had rather more to do with her cousin, a local district chairman of the ruling party, than with God.

ECONOMIST: Uganda