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As a postdoc you will work on someone else's ideas, and may be treated as a technician rather than as an independent collaborator.

作为一个博士后，你研究的将是别人的创意，也许会被当作一个技术员，而不是一个独立的合作者。

He thinks it is the container's lower weight, rather than its collapsibility, that makes it attractive.

他认为这种集装箱吸引人的地方在于其重量较轻，而非可折叠的特性。

One is known technically as kin selection, and familiarly as nepotism. This spreads an individual's genes collaterally, rather than directly, but is otherwise similar to his helping his own offspring.

一种在理论上被称为亲戚选择，即俗称的裙带关系，它可以间接而非直接地传播某一个体的遗传基因，不过在其它方面来看又类似于帮助自己的子孙。

Rather than being known as colloquially as 'the tank', the new S-Class was known for its rounded, graceful lines.

而不是被称为通俗为'坦克'，新S级是其圆形的，线条优美闻名。

Commodus wished to rename the city of Rome the colonia Commodiana, which illustrates two characteristics of these new sorts of colonies. In the first place, the status of colony was considered honorific. In the third century, after all the inhabitants of the empire had become citizens, the colonial status was much sought after in the east, for reasons that must have involved prestige rather than practical benefit. Second, the change in status entailed no introduction of Roman settlers. The population remained unchanged.

康茂德皇帝曾想将罗马本城改名为科洛尼阿·康茂迪亚纳(Colonia Commodiana，即为康茂德所建的殖民城)，这表明种改称的新型殖民城有两个特点：其一，殖民城的地位被视作是荣耀的，到3世纪所有帝国居民都被授予罗马公民权之后，在东方城市间仍努力寻求这种殖民城的地位，其原因更多是为了这一名号的威望，而不是实际的利益；其二，这种城镇地位上的变化不必引入任何罗马拓殖者，该地人口仍维持原样。

Rather than a new car, he bought a color television.

他买了一台彩电，而没买新轿车。

This is Paul's first warning to the Colossian believers that they are to watch out and not blind sighted by a philosophy that originated from human tradition rather than from Christ, it was a philosophy without Christ.

使徒保罗提出第一个警告：歌罗西的信徒们不要被不照著基督只照著人的传统的错误哲学所掳。

And that is why I am here. I chose to come here rather than stay away.

这并不是说我来这里是传达政治讯息的。

I would enjoy renting old time classics in video source rather than low grade love drama and comedy.

我喜欢看老的经典电影，不再只是低品位的爱情片和喜剧了。

Beyond health and comeliness I loved her, And I chose to have her rather than the light, because the splendor of her never yields to sleep.

我爱她，胜过爱健康和美色，我以她比光明更为可取，因为，由她而来的光辉，从不暗淡。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！