查询词典 would rather...than

Imagine for a moment that Greece was an EU candidate country, rather than a full member of both the union and of the euro zone. To judge by the way Turkey has been treated in recent years, Brussels would be demanding not only a leaner public sector but a different political system: for example, secularisation of church-state relations, greater minority rights or a climbdown on issues such as the names the country calls its neighbours.

想象一下，希腊是一个欧盟和欧元区的观察员而非正式成员，从土耳其的近年的经历来看，布鲁塞尔方面的要求不仅限于有倾斜的政治取向，它们很可能要求建立一个新的政治体系：比如，在政教关系方面要求做到彻底分离，更广泛的少数派权利和在它对邻国称呼等问题上的让步。

At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle.

在那相爱的时刻，欲念已在景仰亲慕的巨大威力下绝对沉寂的时刻，马吕斯，纯洁如仙童的马吕斯，也许能找一个*女，但决不会把珂赛特的裙袍边掀起到她踝骨的高度的。

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

他们说宁可在谢伍德森林里当一年绿林好汉，也不愿意当一辈子的美国总统。

And, if I could by any reasonable special pleading with myself find him mad rather than hang him, I think I would.

同时，如果以任何合理的特别的理由使我能够发现他是疯颠的而不用绞死他，那么我将愿意这样做。

The spectacled theorist would have given his life for his doctrine rather than for his people.

这个学识渊博的的理论家原本打算把他的毕生精力和时间都献给自己的教条学说事业，而不是他的人民。

Such readers would like to be presented with a site index at the start rather than a splash screen with pretty graphics or spiffy animations.

这种想读者想在开始时得到的是一个网站的目录而不是一个华丽的充斥者精美图片和动画的卷屏。

Toso said that he would favor waiting several weeks post transplant before starting sirolimus, mainly because of early increased risks of delayed wound healing and incisional hernia rather than the more remote risk of hepatic artery thrombosis that is emphasized in the drug's black box warning.

在回答参会者提问时， Toso 博士指出，建议在行移植术几周后再应用西罗莫司，因为该药的黑框警告中强调，与肝动脉血栓形成这一更远期的危险相比，过早应用该药更可能会增加伤口延迟愈合和出现切口疝的危险性。

He said he would starve rather than beg for food.

他说他宁愿挨饿也不要饭吃。

The proud man said he would starve rather than beg for food.

那个骄傲的人说他宁愿饿死也不愿讨饭。

The proud man would starve rather than beg for food.

这个骄傲的人宁愿饿死也不乞讨。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。