还不如

It would've been better to have a flat incisal edge.

还不如备一个平坦的切缘。

Better, then, to stay mum rather than risk a mauling.

那么，与其冒被棒打的风险，还不如保持沉默。

Challenges will rightly come from those concerned about individuals' rights and patient autonomy, as well as from those who moralistically fear an 'easy' solution to HIV rather than behavioural change.

毫无疑问，挑战将来自于那些关心个人利益和病人自主权的人，以及那些对如此容易就解决艾滋病问题心怀忧虑的道德说教者，他们认为还不如改变行为来预防艾滋病。

For my part, I think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weather-cocks, as they used to put heroes among the constellations,and let them swing round there till they are rusty, and not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks.

照我的看法，他们还不如把这些普遍的小说世界里往上爬的英雄人物一概变形为风信鸡人，好像他们时常把英雄放在星座之中一样，让那些风信鸡旋转不已，直到它们锈掉为止，却千万别让它们下地来胡闹，麻烦了好人们。

State of Deception' adopts the view that, on the whole, the German populace was ultimately more indifferent to the fate of European Jews than rabidly interested in their destruction.

欺骗的国度》所持的观点是，总体上，德国民众与其说是狂热地要灭绝犹太种族，还不如说是对欧洲犹太人的命运漠不关心。

Rather than posting in the forums that you are now doomed and will have to reroll, help us get the death knights in a place where they are an attractive option but not the clear best option on most fights.

与其在论坛抱怨你们被毁了而且不得不reroll，还不如帮助我们调整死骑坦克的定位，让死骑在绝大部分战斗中虽然不是最佳选择，但也是很有吸引力的选择。

Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says: trying to make a spoom spoiled a horn,and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of socity in other occupations.

天下最不足取的事情，莫过于一个年轻人如同苏橄榄的谚语说的那样，&勺子没做成，倒毁了羊角。&与其在文学或科学领域做滥竽充数的食客，倒还不如去从事其他工作，他也许会成为社会上有用的，有价值的一员。

The system was a little bit before its time,"said Srinivasan."electronics technology had not come as far as it has today.

这个系统有点超前那个时代，srimivasan说：那时候的电子技术还不如今天的这样。

And the hurdles are surmountable.

反应还不如中国上次导弹打卫星时强烈。

Rather than worry about the dim relationships between causes and effects in these massively swarmy systems crowded with circular causality, Farmer says,"The key question to ask in beating the stock market is, what patterns should you pay attention to?"

所以，对于这些充斥着因果关系循环、大规模群集式的系统来说，与其去操心原因与结果在这些系统中的那些模糊不清的关系，还不如，采用Farmer的思路：&如果你的目标是要击败股票市场，那么你其实是得去问这么一个关键性的问题：你应该去关注哪个模式？&

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。