查询词典 or rather

This is good and bad at the same time. Some readers will certainly miss a clear relation between cities as we know them and the rather abstract models and results for specific dynamic features, such as segregation or polynucleated growth.

有些读者肯定会无法搞清正如我们已知的城市和对于特定动态特征（比如种族隔离和多核增长）的相当抽象的模型和结果之间的明确关系。

They also preferred a clear relationship between the words and the things they refer to, rather than hyperbole or ambiguity, so they often censured Shakespeare for pomposity and the excessive use of puns.

他们喜欢词有明确的所指，而不喜欢用词夸张或有多重意义，所以他们经常批评莎士比亚辞藻浮华，双关语过多。

The most effective commentary on an age or an event is as often as not oblique rather than direct, and the impact is no less powerful for being rerouted … Tolkien is too often dismissed out of hand as an anachronism, a contemporary Pre-Raphaelite trying to present that the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment have not happened. On the contrary, any thoughtful reading of his work that looks below the surface will show that he is in fact quite a modern thinker, dipping into the past for the stuff of story but reworking it for the age in which he lived and felt.

至于他和Edith的爱情，看起来很多地方离神仙眷侣的标准实在差太远，但两人之间的感情却超越了这一切，Beren和Luthien固然传奇，但托老和Edith却更令俺感动，年老时，可以有一个人牵着手，两个人两条拐杖，慢慢地走在路上，哪个曾是意气风发高声朗诵萨迦的疯狂大学教授，哪个曾是黑发灰目在林中翩翩起舞的美人都不再重要了吧，只要大家在一起就好。

It is rather in the very nature of anything properly called a transcendental argument or proof that they must have such a premiss.

从某些东西真正的nature，宁愿称TA或TP，它们必须拥有这样的预设。

The present progressive used to refer to the future, more often than not the near rather than distant future, in connection with a definite plan, arrangement or program, usually occurs in situations with obvious future reference.

这是现在进行体表示将来时间的用法。这种将来事态通常都是按照现在的计划安排近期内即将发生。例如

In addition, try munching on fresh fruits and vegetables, which are full of fluid, rather than pretzels or chips.

此外，要多吃新鲜富含水分的水果蔬菜而不是椒盐脆饼或薯条。

The latest government intervention in China is not a price freeze, Chinese officials said in a statement last month, but rather a short-term measure to prevent individual companies from making inappropriate price increases or gouging customers.

上个月，中国政府官员在一份公告中指出，最近政府的干预措施不是冻结价格，而是为了防止个别公司不合理地涨价或盘剥消费者而实施的短期措施。

The existence of nuclei in mature xylem cells is a symbol of primitiveness, for such nuclei all exist in secondary xylem of families or genera which are in the rather primitive stage of development in plant systems.

成熟木材细胞中的细胞核是一个原始的特征，均出现在植物系统发育上较为原始的科属木材中。

Anything planned to do should proceed immediately, rather than put it off until tomorrow, or even from this year to the next.

事应着手做的，便应立刻着手；不可今天推明天，今年推明年。

I would rather not give you my full program or key generator.

我不想给你完整的项目或密匙发生器。

By the time of its fall, most of the prisoners were writers who had written against the corruptions of the government.

到它被攻陷的时候，里面多数的犯人是写了反对政府贪污文章的作家。

The most obvious variation to ovum morphological character was that the color was changed from light green to sepiaceous in embryonic development, and all the ovums were almost hatched after 96h.

在胚胎发育过程中卵的形态特征最明显的变化是颜色从淡绿到深褐色，卵在发育96h后卵基本全部孵化。