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Listen to me. It would rather have a sexual canoodling class than offer sexual education.

注意听讲。其实，与其说性教育课，不如说是性爱抚教育。

So, I would rather face constructive counterviews and improvements than simple denials.

因此，我也希望那些对于我的想法有不同意见的朋友们能建设性的提出你们的反驳理由或者改进方案。

Under the pressure of soaring housing price, divorced "post-80s" would rather be stuck in the same house than each choose a separate residence. These divorcees joke about it by calling themselves "stuck divorcees".

面对节节高升的房价压力，离婚的&80后&们宁可选择蜗居在一处也不分道扬镳，这类&80后&自嘲为蜗婚族。

As entering the hall, DY had made up his mind: since he was in danger now, it's his luck if could escape or he would rather die, as it's effortless to talk friendly with these evil-looking enemies.

段誉推开长窗跨进厅中之时，便已打定了主意：&既已身履险地，能设法脱身，自是上上大吉，否则瞧这些人凶神恶煞的模样，纵然跟他们多说好话，也是无用。&

Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the pardon-preachers, he would rather that st. peter's church should go to ashes, than that it should be built up with the skin, flesh and bones of his sheep.

必须训示基督徒，假若教皇得知赎罪券兜售者的勒索行为，他宁肯将圣彼得教堂焚为灰烬，也不愿用其牧群的皮、肉、骨来建造它。

I would rather hear a phony thank you than a guy just walking away with a stone face.

我宁愿听一个假的&谢谢&，也不愿意一个家伙木然离去。

I would rather you went on business firs t.

你没有必要这么着急，我宁愿你先去上班。

Sometimes they would rather not eat breakfast than give up buying the food with that card.

有时他们宁愿不吃早餐也不放弃买带有这种卡的食品。

Sometimes they would rather not eat breakfast than give up buying the food with that card.

甚至偷钱。有时他们宁愿不吃早餐也不放弃买带有这种卡的食品。

"I would rather go down to town to a cafe for lunch than force feed myself something I do not like."

我宁可去市区的咖啡馆吃午餐，也不要强迫自己吃不想吃的东西。

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。