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Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it- William James; a desert nomad's austere life; a spartan diet; a spartan existence.

系统的节制……做……某事，不是为了别的理由，而是因为你可以不做它——威廉·詹姆斯；沙漠游牧民族的朴素生活；艰苦的饮食；艰苦的生存。

If only you could be happy, I would rather break up with you and remain your friend.

只要你幸福，我宁愿退到好朋友的位置。

I would rather take to the road than work in an office from 9 till 5 each day.

我宁愿飘泊流浪，也不愿在办公室从9点干到5点。

If you do not, under the snow for several days and nights, I think I would rather that I had.

如果没有这场下了几天几夜的雪，我想我还是曾经的那个我。

Your father would rather stake you out in the sun himself than watch you cowering here like this, afraid of your own shadow.

你的父亲宁愿在太阳下打桩出你他自己而不愿手表你在这里畏缩喜欢这，害怕你自己的影像。

I would rather have led apes in hell.

我宁愿牵猩猩在地狱里。

Now when my world isn't crowded with others I feel pangs of loneliness, and this friend of mine basks in it and would rather seek out situations where she's alone to her-self.

现在，当我的世界并不拥挤与他人一起，我觉得阵痛的寂寞，和这位朋友的矿井邀请赛中，并宁愿求的情况下，她的，仅她的自治。

I would rather let you be bungled very much..

只要你们也能重塑我的头像，我倒很情愿让你们砸。

I would rather to be cheesed than jaded/wearied/tired.

我与其说是疲惫不如说是厌倦。

But for now, he would rather compromise with his Orthodox partners than consider the prospect, favoured by Mr Obama's team, of dumping them (and, by the by, Mr Lieberman's lot) and co-opting the more pragmatic Kadima party, under Tzipi Livni.

但现在，他宁愿向他的东正教伙伴妥协，也不想像奥巴马团队希望的那样抛弃他们（顺便说一句，以及利伯曼一帮人）而共同选择和齐皮·利夫尼控制的更加务实的前进党合作。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。