He will drain, rather than enrich, the country.

他将耗尽而不是增加国家的财富。

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You are buying direct, rather than through an agent.

你在直接购买，而不是通过代理商购买。

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The problem was psychological rather than physiological.

这是个心理而不是生理问题。

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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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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。

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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”。

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The concept of Roth IRAs: You pay your income tax going in, rather than going out.

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It's like a child, raised with hope rather than expectation, love rather than fiscal projection.

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Wardrop also leans on his suppliers to redesign any failed components rather than simply replace them.

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