查询词典 had rather

I would rather you had gone just now.

我宁愿你刚才就走了。

I would rather you had left yesterday.

我宁愿你昨天已离开了。

Haeckel's works, both in the original and in English translations, have had a wide circulation, their popularity being due rather to the superficial manner in which Haeckel disposes of the most serious questions of metaphysics than to any intrinsic excellence of content or method.

海克尔的作品，无论是在原始和英文翻译，产生了广泛流通，其受欢迎程度是由於相当的肤浅的方式处置海克尔的最严重问题的形而上学，而不是任何内在优秀的内容或方法。

She was a quick learner, and had quite a good ear, so she did well even just for a few hours of this rather difficult aural training (especially the harmonic progression part).

她学得很快，并有相当不错的耳朵，所以虽然她在这个相当困难的听力测试中只有几个小时的训练，但仍然表现出色。

Otter, who was standing on the hearthrug, describing to an admiring circle of friends exactly how he would have managed things had he been there, came forward with a shout, threw his arm round Toad's neck, and tried to take him round the room in triumphal progress; but Toad, in a mild way, was rather snubby to him, remarking gently, as he disengaged himself, 'Badger's was the mastermind; the Mole and the Water Rat bore the brunt of the fighting; I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing.

水獭正站在炉毯上，对一群贵客描述，假如他当时在场，会怎样做。看到蟾蜍，他大叫一声跑过来，甩开两臂，一把搂住他的脖子，要拉他在屋里英雄式地绕场一周。可是蟾蜍温和地表示不屑。挣脱了他的双臂，婉转地说："獾才是出谋划策的主帅，鼹鼠和河鼠是战斗的主力军，而我，只不过是行伍里的一名小卒子，干得很少，可以说没干什么。"

My hero-worship, coupled with the fact that people generally were commencing to have less and less to do with him, made him get very confidential with me; and one evening he hinted that if I were fairly close-mouthed and none too squeamish, he might show me something rather unusual -- something a bit stronger than anything he had in the house.

他自然也有些享受被崇拜的感觉，加上其他人越来越少和他接触，于是我们之间的关系就更加亲密了。有天晚上，他神秘兮兮的对我说：想不想看点更刺激的？保证比给这里的画更有意思，只要你有胆子就成。另外，别到处张扬。

He had a long, rather horsy face.

他的脸很长，有点像马的脸。

H He had a long, rather horsy face.

他的脸很长，有点象马的脸

Rather, they were theatrically trained actors Welles had assembled many years before with his partner and mentor, John Houseman.

相反，它们是戏剧演员威尔斯训练了多年，组装和他的合作伙伴和导师，约翰豪斯曼。

Along with a rather short stature, he had a grotesque hunchback.

在相当矮的身材而外，他还是个驼背。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷