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Instead of a card or a complicated explanation of the wheel of fortune, that one word capture the concept.

与其用塔罗牌又或者幸运之轮的复杂解释，还不如用文字来表达这个概念。

My own state of mind , when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the freshman year at Whittier College , was different .

对于我，与其说这是离别，还不如说是一次漫长历程的出发点，它将带我从惠蒂尔学院，牛津大学，耶鲁法学院，再回到瓦茨。

It was to me less of a departure ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University , to Yale Law School , and back to Watts .

对于我，与其说这是离别，还不如说是一次漫长历程的出发点，它将带我从惠蒂尔学院，牛津大学，耶鲁法学院，再回到瓦茨。

The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam.

完成了皇宫上的飞檐，入晚回家的石工，大约是回到一个比尖屋还不如的草棚里。

Because the human is willowy, many matters are may change, so long as you have a mind, has the courage, everywhere picks the unknown stone with it, the might as well the stone which already had polishes the polish.

因为人是有弹性的，很多事情是可以改变的，只要你有心，有勇气，与其到处去捡未知的石头，还不如将自己已经拥有的石头磨亮磨光。

Sometimes we struggle to hang on to a wilting relationship. Many times, it is healthier to let go.

有时候我们苦苦挽救一段破碎的有一，但其实，还不如早点结束更好。

We had enough of sympathy for fifty years;it nev-er brought us anything;and we would rather havean angry man going to the government and saying,my business is interfered with and I won't submitto its being interfered with any longer because youwon't give women the vote,than to have a gentle－man come onto our platforms year in and year outand talk about his ardent sympathy with woman suffrage.

她所需要的是办成某件实事，至于办成这件事是出于同情还是恐惧，还是由于人们企盼重享安宁而不在这方面再有烦恼，只要这件事已办成，就都没有什么特别要紧的了。50年间我们得到过足够多的同情，却从未因而得益；与其看到一位绅士年复一年地走上我们的讲台侈谈他对妇女选举权的热忱，还不如看到一个愤怒的男人去对政府说，我的生意受到了阻碍，我不能容忍由于你们不给妇女以选举权而使我的事业继续受到干扰。

And without other people, well, you might as well be a zombie.

如果没有别人和你一起，你还不如去当个僵尸

Except for the loss of petal, there was little difference in the weight of sepal, stamen and pistil between the apetalous and petalous lines.

结果显示，虽然无花瓣油菜减少了花瓣对光线的遮挡，但是其光合效率并没有像预想中一样得到提高，反而还不如花瓣正常型，ApetF33-10净光合速率、F_v／F_m和F_v／F_o低于有花瓣油菜近等基因系Pet33-10。

It is generally believed that the chief reason for the increase in population in developed countries is not so much the rise in birth rates as the decline in death r ates as a result of the improvement in medical care.

普遍认为，在发达国家人口增长的主要原因与其说是出生率的上升，还不如说是由于医疗保健的改善使死亡率下降了。

According to the clear water experiment, aeration performance of the new equipment is good with high total oxygen transfer coefficient and oxygen utilization ratio.

曝气设备的动力效率在叶轮转速为120rpm～150rpm时取得最大值，此时氧利用率和充氧能力也具有较高值。

The environmental stability of that world - including its crushing pressures and icy darkness - means that some of its most famous inhabitants have survived for eons as evolutionary throwbacks, their bodies undergoing little change.

稳定的海底环境─包括能把人压扁的压力和冰冷的黑暗─意谓海底某些最知名的栖居生物已以演化返祖的样态活了万世，形体几无变化。