查询词典 had rather

They had decided to stop there rather than in the Jebusite city, because the inhabitants of Gibeah were fellow-Israelites.

他们决定在那媢L夜而不愿到耶布斯城，因为基比亚的居民是以色列同胞。

It was an Australian who had given her such a definition of "the King's English," which produced some rather tart remarks about what one could expect from the descendants of convicts.

告诉她"标准英语"应作那种解释的原来是个澳大利亚人。得悉此情，有些人便说起刻薄话来了，说什么囚犯的子孙这样说倒也不足为怪。

I took one and had a bite, asking laughingly:"rather sweet, where did you get them?"

我拿起一个，咬了一口，笑着问她："挺甜的，哪来的？"

She had meant it to be rather a secret, and here was Lavinia deriding it before nearly all the school.

她是故意要让它成为一个秘密，然而拉维尼娅却以此来当着差不多全校学生的面来嘲笑她。

After handing out most of the top jobs to his coalition partners, he has had to fiddle with existing departments to create new ministries, some with rather vague remits, for some of his Likud colleagues.

在把大多数高级职位安排给他的联盟伙伴后，他还必须为了利库德的同事们忙于应付现有的部门，创建新的部门，而其中一些涉及到多少有些模糊的移交问题。

Nicholas Kenner nailed me - again - at last year's meeting, pointing out that I had said in the 1990 annual report that he was 11 in May 1990, when actually he was 9. So, asked Nicholas rather caustically:"If you can't get that straight, how do I know the numbers in the back are correct?" I'm still searching for a snappy response. Nicholas will be at this year's meeting - he spurned my offer of a trip to Disney World on that day - so join us to watch a continuation of this lop-sided battle of wits.

去年股东会 Nicholas Kenner 又杠上我了，他表示："我在去年 1990 年报中表示他在 1990 年 5 月 11 号满十岁，但事实上他那时才刚满 9 岁"，他接着又用很嘲讽的语气说："如果你连这个都搞不清楚，我如何还能相信你报告中的其他数字是正确的"到现在我还在想如何做出一个有力的回答，今年 Nicholas 还会出席，他拒绝了我邀请他当天到迪士尼乐园玩的建议，所以请大家继续好好观赏这一面倒的机智问答。

The day was cool and rather lustreless; the first note of autumn had been struck.

这天天气阴凉，光线暗淡，秋色已开始来临。

The lustreless, sleepy look in the eyes, the affectation of profound thought had gone. The round, hard, eagle eyes looked ecstatically and rather disdainfully before him, obviously not resting on anything, though there was still the same deliberation in his measured movements.

但是，既无睡眠不足的暗淡的目光，亦无假装的陷入沉思的样子；一对坚定的浑圆的鹰眼热情洋溢地、略微轻蔑地向前望去，显然，他的目光没有停留在任何东西上，虽然他的动作和从前一样，既迟缓，又有节奏。

Even at 16, I had the sense to see that the compliers of the test were using rather limited criteria—maleness and femaleness are both more complicated than that—and I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

尽管只有16岁，我就能判断出那些依从于测试的人衡量男女性的标准极其有限，而事实上男性与女性都要复杂得多。

Malvina Holloway, 59, of Mobile, Ala., received a bottle filled with Tambocor, a dangerous heart-rhythm-altering medication, rather than the breast-cancer drug Tamoxifen that her oncologist had prescribed.

59岁的来自亚拉巴马州莫比尔的玛尔维纳·霍罗威拿到的是一瓶泰布考（一种改变心脏节律的危险药物），而不是肿瘤医生为她开出的治疗乳腺癌的它莫西芬。

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