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It is generally believed that the chief reason for the increase in population in deve loped countries is not so much the rise in birth rates as the decline in death rates as a resu lt 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。

This ungrateful, lousier than the Zhong Shan Lang thing!

这个忘恩负义，比中山狼还不如的东西！

She kept silent, which made me more jealous and added," Since you fear to do unfavorable things to me, which proves you are already shaken, we'd rather separate."

见她没声音，我更是醋意横生，补了一句：&你既然怕做出对不起我的事情来，证明你已经动摇了。那我们还不如干脆分手吧。&

"Instead of outwatching the stars, let us visit one at whose beauty the stars grow pale."

我们与其整夜看星星，还不如去拜访一下星星也为之感到逊色的美人。

X The mayor said that in view of the fact that the budget was overspent, no more projects could be started.

同样的时间还不如拿来多想点「内容，思考」上的东西，这也才是托福GRE等考官真的想看的

Consquencely, if the competing news-magazines have decreased the quantities of the international news considerably, it doesn't mean that the total number of the international news overweighed the amounts of that news in Newsbeat's.

说与我们竞争的几种新闻刊物减少了刊登在封面上的国际新闻数量，并没有说这几种新闻刊物的销量如何，可能还不如 Newsbeat 杂志在封面上刊登国际新闻故事的那几期的销量。

If you want to know the future of publishing, you will learn more by peering into a crystal ball.

如果你想知道未来的出版业，还不如去盯着一个水晶球看，那样得到的答案倒会更多。

The key is not so much the nature of the proffered evidence as the purpose for which that evidence is proffered.

此句的意思是不是说：与其说这个关键取决于证据的性质还不如说是提交证据的目的是用来证明什么。

I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

只要你爱我，就让他们瞧见我吧；与其因为得不到你的爱情而在这世上捱命，还不如在仇人的刀剑下丧生。

ROMEO 罗密欧 I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

朦胧的夜色可以替我遮过他们的眼睛。只要你爱我，就让他们瞧见我吧；与其因为得不到你的爱情而在这世上捱命，还不如在仇人的刀剑下丧生。

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。