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I would rather die with my head high, with indestructible faith and profound belief in the destiny of our country, than live in humility and renounce the principles which are sacred to me.

宁愿 宁愿昂着头，怀着不动摇的信念，抱着对祖国前途的真切信心而死，也不愿也不愿在屈从之译文：我宁愿也不愿下背弃神圣的原则而生。

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

我宁愿生命的火花在壮丽的火焰中燃烧殆尽，也不愿在腐朽之物中窒息而死。

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

我宁愿生命的火花在壮丽的火焰中燃烧殆尽，也不愿在腐朽之物中窒息而亡。

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

我宁可让我的火花化作熊熊火焰，而不要干瘪腐朽。

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

最近在看《往事并不如烟》，储安平的故事让我数度掩卷叹息。

She would rather have suffered anything than that slow suspense, that corroding anxiety, that metaphysical dry-rot in which heart and mind seemed to decay under an insufferable torture.

她宁可吃随便什么苦，也不愿熬那拖拖拉拉的悬而不决，熬那腐蚀性的焦虑，熬那玄妙的干朽，处在这种干朽之中，人的心和头脑似乎要在难堪的严刑拷打下枯萎了。

I would rather learn from the ancients.

我更想学一学古人。

Most IS managers would rather tangle with backend databases than backhoes, hard-drive controllers than city controllers.

多数信息系统的经理宁愿与后台数据库打交道，而不愿与挖土机打交道；宁愿与硬盘控制器打多道，而不愿与市政控制人员打交道。

Ask Mr Hirst if he would rather paint the "Mona Lisa" and have it hanging in the greatest museum in the world or a postcard of the "Mona Lisa" for every student bedsit, he chooses both.

如果你问赫斯特先生是要绘出&蒙娜丽莎&，将之挂在世界上最伟大的博物馆内，或者是绘制出&蒙娜丽莎&的明信片让每个学生放在床头，赫斯特先生会同时选择这两样。

They would rather be bystanders to evil.

他们宁愿做恶行的旁观者。

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。