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It is, therefore, not surprising that uncivilised road conducts are pervasive as most aggrieved parties would rather tolerate these culprits than asserting their rights with unpredictable consequences.

关注这种情形的国人再三表示，应该采取改善措施。可惜的是，他们一些可取的建议，在报章上积极谈论后便没有下文。

But I would rather think with the 18-century Italian dramatist, Vittorio Alfieri, that "often the test of courage is not to die but to live".

不过，我更赞同18世纪意大利戏剧家维多利奥·阿尔菲利的观点，对勇气的考验往往不是去死，而是要活。

But I would rather think with the 18th-century Italian dramatist, Vittorio Alfieri, that often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

不过，我更赞同十八世纪意大利戏剧家维多利奥·阿尔菲利的观点，&对勇气的考验往往不是去死，而是要活。&

But I would rather think with the 18th-century Italian dramatist, Vittorio Alfieri, that "often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

参考译文是&临危不惧、或从容不迫&，下面的圆括号都是我觉得比我译好的译文）但我觉得十八世纪意大利剧作家Vitterio Alfieri的话更耐人寻味：&对勇气的考验往往不是死亡，而是怎么活下去。&

I would rather my brother visited Aunt Sally today.

我宁愿我弟弟今天就去看望萨丽姑姑。

I would rather stay at home al one.

我宁愿独自呆在家。

Would rather cost heavy price buy chicken ribs and old foreign aid --Niko Kovac,Sforza ...

却宁可花大价钱购买鸡肋且年老的外援--Niko Kovac，Sforza。。。

No one has ever had such prestige among foreign nations as he,82 for he was ever a lover of peace, even to such a degree that he was continually quoting the saying of Scipio in which he declared that he would rather save a single citizen than slay a thousand foes.

没有人在外国有过像他那样的声望（82），因为他一直是个爱好和平的人，甚至到了这个程度，他不断引用西庇阿的话，解救一个公民，胜过杀死一千个敌人。

After all, most cities, if they could choose, would rather have San Bernardino's problems than Harlem's.

毕竟，大多数城市如果有选择的话，一定会选择圣贝纳狄诺市的困难，而不是哈伦。

After all, most cities, if they could choose, would rather have San Bernardino's problems than Harlem's.

毕竟，如果可以选择的话，大部分城市宁愿自己像圣伯纳迪诺那样，也不愿成为第二个哈莱姆。

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。