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He said that he would rather contribute his time to Taiwan than conduct orchestras overseas.

他表示，与其在国外乐团指挥，不如把时间拿来贡献给台湾。

I would rather ch oose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of in dependence still available under present circumstances.

我 宁可去做一个水管工或是小商贩，只期盼能当今社会还有一定程度上的自由。

Artists under 30, such as conceptual photographer Chi Peng, who shows with Alexander Ochs/ White Space in Beijing and Berlin and with Chambers Fine Art in New York, do not want to be bothered with a stream of visitors to their studios and would rather have galleries handle the business side of their practice.

艺术家， 30岁，如概念性摄影迟鹏，他们显示出与亚历山大ochs /白空间，在北京和柏林以及与商会美术在纽约，不想被人打扰了同一个流的游人参观工作室，并情愿画廊处理业务方面的惯常做法。

I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

我在那些情愿自己少拿薪水，也不愿看到朋友们失业的工人身上看到了它；在那些失去肢体后仍再次服役的士兵们身上看到了它；在那些于暴风和洪水来袭时收容陌生人的善良同胞身上看到了它。

I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbours who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

我在那些情愿自己少拿薪水，也不愿看到朋友们失业的工人身上看到了它；在那些失去肢体后仍再次服役的士兵们身上看到了它；在那些于暴风和洪水来袭时收容陌生人的善良同胞身上看到了它。

And I've seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

我在这次竞选中看到过它，在第一次投票的年轻人身上、在中断很长时间又介入投票的人们身上、在那些永远也不会想到自己会投票给民主党但却这么做了的共和党人身上，在宁肯把自己的工作时间缩减一天也不愿看到朋友们失去工作的工人身上、在失去肢体但再次入伍的士兵身上，在那些当飓风来袭洪水上涨时把陌生人请进家门的好邻居们身上，我看到了变革。

I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

其实，是美国精神，美国的承诺，在道路不明朗时仍把我们推向前进，虽然我们人各不同但仍把我们团结在一起，使我们不是纠缠于已知，而是放眼未知，那未知中的美好世界。

I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

我在工人中看到了改变，他们宁愿提前几个小时回家会会朋友而不会因此丢了工作；我在军人中看到了改变，他们在残疾之后，依然受到雇佣；我在邻居中看到了改变，当飓风来袭洪水泛滥时，他们将陌生人让进家中。

Nobody wants fetters; even birds would rather fly freely amid nature 's lordship than stay well-provided in cages all day.

没有人喜欢被束缚，即使是小鸟也宁愿在大自然中自由地翱翔，而不愿整日呆在笼子里养尊处优。

Although fierce in appearance, the wart hog would rather run from predators, like the lion or leopard, than fight.

尽管看上去很凶猛，其实对于狮子或豹子这样的食肉性动物，疣猪宁愿意选择避开而不是干上一架。

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。