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

In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

"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

They're associated now with events in the life of the new nation rather than being grounded in the cycles of nature.

他们现在同一个国家的新生联系起来,而不再是简单的自然循环。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

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

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

VOA: special.2011.03.24

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

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

VOA: special.2009.03.16

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.26

So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that's taken alone, according to one's own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.

好了，这就是一种自发的美学享受的情景,对，这就是独自幻想的乐趣，它出自人自己的想法，而不是一些更宽广的概念，不是一些更社会化的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.04.28

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

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

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Nano Rather than use nano on this computer, Vim I'm gonna use a program called Vim, which is just another text editor.

今天我们不用，而是用，另外一个文本编辑器。

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

So it'll be a very, very nice way, rather than just a show of hands on how people are supporting different policies.

这是一种非常非常好的方法,而不需要举手表决,看大家支持哪种方案

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"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 will use it in moderation and use it to the best effect possible rather than use it because it is there.

我会适量的运用数学以达到最佳的效果,而不是为了数学而用数学

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Reports say Americans are buying more wines in stores rather than ordering them in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.10.20

Notice that then the "I" disappears, not completely but wherever it reappears it's embedded rather than initial.

注意，现在，“我“不见了，不是完全而是,藏起来不出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It makes sense for people to sing rather than say these words, because the emotions are so huge, the conflicts are so large and so real."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

We need to get at the story of the Fall from the perspective of its beginning rather than from the perspective of its ending.

理解人类的堕落的故事，我们要从,它的源起而不是它的结果来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But one of them would make war rather than let the nation live.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

But for all that, the key to the same person could have to do with the personality rather than the sameness of bodies.

但这个观点认为，成为同一个人的,关键是同样的人格,而不是同样的肉体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the other would accept war, rather than let it die.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

So rather than calling this an electron beam, this was called a cathode ray.

因此我们最好别叫它电子束，而是阴极射线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Rather than the military's power that does nothing but focuses on where is the next war.

军事力量则不同,除了带给我们下一场战争，什么也办不到。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选