查询词典 had rather

An employer would much rather see you preforming well than know that you had a 3.8 gpa in college.

那是雇主更乐于看到的而不仅仅是一个3.8的GPA成绩。

One thing, however, rather quenched the vanities. She had to wear her cousin's clothes.

然而有一件事却刺伤了她的虚荣心：她得穿表姐的衣服。

Several Roman Congregations have also had their acts collected in official publications; but these are rather erudite compilations or repertories.

几位罗马教会，也有过自己的行为所收集的官方刊物，但这些都是比较高深的汇编或汇编。

Rather than consumer demand, China's thirst for imports had been driven by restocking and other factors.

中国进口量的大增主要是受到重建库存和其它因素的推动，而非消费者的需求。

Simply because she had doted on them both equally, ensuring that they would be best friends rather than rivaling siblings.

只是因为她已经相等地溺爱他们两个，确定他们将会是最好的朋友不愿与兄弟匹敌。

From her grandmother, she had learned that emeralds looked better with pink saris rather than green.

她在她祖母身上就曾学到，绿宝石和粉红色而不是绿色的莎莉服更搭配。

He liked to say that he was taught to write by Henry Green, the greatest of English Modernists, but added that this somehow implied he had "learned" writing, and "it is not a business one learns—unlearns, rather…with each day new blank paper."

他喜欢说，是最伟大的英国现实主义作家亨利·格林教会了他写作，并且补充这多少表明他已经学过了写作，但是&学习写作不是一个先学，再忘记所学的过程，而是。。。每天都要面对崭新的空白纸&

Or rather, it bas mostly Mrs Bolton talking. She had unloosed to him the stream of gossip about Tevershall village. It was more than gossip.

实际上，不可能有爱情的活动，跟另种热情——知识的热情，和他一样有知识的热情一道，使她迷醉到骨髓里。

Ackley is a bear of a guy with a side-of-the-mouth wisecracking delivery. He broke up 250 serious scientists at the 1990 Second Artificial Life Conference with a wickedly funny video of a rather important artificial life world he and colleague Michael Littman had made.

艾克利是壮得像头熊的家伙，一张大嘴巴总是妙语连珠。1990年第二届人工生命会议上，他播放了和同事迈克尔利特曼(2)一起制作的相当重要的人工生命世界的别出心裁的录像，迷倒了在场观看的250位严肃的科学家。

Ackley is a bear of a guy with a side-of-the-mouth wisecracking delivery. He broke up 250 serious scientists at the 1990 Second Artificial Life Conference with a wickedly funny video of a rather important artificial life world he and colleague Michael Littman had made.

艾克利是壮得像头熊的家伙，嘴角边吐出妙语连珠。1990年第二届人工生命会议上，他播放了和同事迈克尔利特曼(2)一起制作的相当重要的人工生命世界的别出心裁的录像，雷倒了在场观看的250位严肃的科学家。

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