查询词典 would rather

Fork out, fork over - to pay for something, usually something you would rather not have to pay for.

在某物上花费，通常是某些你希望不用花钱的东西

I would rather have beer than black coffee.

我宁愿喝啤酒也不要喝黑咖啡。

I would rather be appointed, like secretary of state.

我更愿意接受总统的任命，比如去担任国务卿什么的。

I would rather have a pair of run-of-the-mill jeans than some of there fancy trousers that are fashionable nowadays.

我情愿要一条普普通通的牛仔裤，也不要当今流行的那种稀奇古怪的时装裤。

Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge of women in the workforce may portend a rejection of marriage. Many women, according to this hypothesis, would rather work than marry.

一些未来主义学家一直认为女性劳动力的剧增或许预示了她们对婚姻的排斥，依照这一观点的话，就是许多女性宁愿工作而不结婚。

Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge of women in the workforce may portend a rejection of marriage. Many women, according to this hypothesis, would rather work than marry.

第一段引出两种不同的观点：一些未来学家提出一种假设，劳动力中妇女的剧增可能预示着对婚姻的拒绝；而与这种想法相反的是认为一个家庭中两个人赚钱的前景将鼓励婚姻。

Zhuang would rather do in the free ri tail of the mud turtle, do not be tied Angtou the giant came.

庄子宁愿做自由的在烂泥塘里摇头摆尾的乌龟，而不做受人束缚的昂头阔步的千里马。

Zhuangzi would rather be free in the mud pond Yaotoubaiwei turtle, do not hold your head high by people tied the Maxima.

庄子宁愿做自由的在烂泥塘里摇头摆尾的乌龟，而不做受人束缚的昂头阔步的千里马。

Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that he would rather be remembered as a teacher of the deaf than as the inv entor of the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell 曾告诉家人，他更愿意让后人记住他是聋子的老师，而非电话的发明者。

I would rather play with the forked lightning, or take in my hands living wires

我宁可与分叉的闪电嬉戏，或者手握高压电线，而不愿说些无关痛痒的话攻击任何一位上帝仆

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。