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Being different from the western mental politics, this traditional Chinese body politics mainly emphasizes the unity of body and nation rather than the contradiction of the two; emphasizes the dialogue principle of life rather than the monolog principle of sense; emphasizes the clan-species approach about harmony of colony and individual rather than the sociology approach about dimidiation of the two.

与西方的心识政治学不同，这种中国古代的身体政治学更多强调的是身国的合一而非身国的对立，是生命的对话原则而非理性的独白原则，是群己合谐的族类学方法而非群已二分的社会学方法。

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.

婚姻里的双方都应该互相鼓励而非吹毛求疵；彼此宽恕而非牢记伤害；是建造者而非改革家。

Worker law outlook is organon of and rather than of a kind of viewpoint of value, the legal essence that is reason talks abstraction of and rather than talk formerly originally, it is the operation method with scientific legal methodology simple and rather than.

劳动者法律观是一种价值观而非工具论，是理性的法律本质论而非抽象的本原论，是科学的法律方法论而非简单的操作方法。

Hume's should have rather poor supercilium/ crown contrast (as the supercilium should be off-white-buff rather than white) and have rather grey-black centres to coverts and tertials (offering reduced contrast with the mantle and also with the wing bars).

休氏柳莺应该有比较不明显的眉线/头侧线对比（因为眉线是略带皮黄色的白色而非白色），而且覆羽和三级飞羽中央是偏灰黑色，导致和背部与翼带的对比比较不明显。

The Behavioralist Approach: A concern with explanatory rather than normative theory; a concern with recurring patterns rather than the single case; a concern with operational concepts that have measurable empirical reference rather than reified concepts; a concern with the conceptual frameworks; a concern for the techniques of precise data gathering, measurement and presentation.

行为主义方法：关注解释性理论而非规范性理论；关注重复性的模式而非单一的事件；关注那些含有可量度的经验参数的可操作性概念而非那些极为微妙的概念；注重概念框架；注重关于数据收集、量度和表述的精确技术。

Communicative language rather than re-form, the process rather than the result, rather than re fluently and accurately.

交际法重语言运用而不是形式，重过程而不是结果，重流利而不是准确。

Order a carafe of house wine instead of a bottle of fine wine (saves $20 in Rome). Choose a two-star hotel rather than a three-star one (saves $60 per night in Paris). Buy the transit pass rather than individual tickets (saves $5 per ride on London's Tube). Buy a scratch-off phone card at a European newsstand for calls home, and you'll pay pennies rather than dollars per minute.

来回去机场坐公交比打车省钱（节省40美元，在维也纳），点那种与饭菜搭售的酒比单点一瓶好酒便宜（节省20美元，在罗马），选择二星级酒店比选择三星级酒店好（每晚节省60美元，在巴黎），购买国境通行证比单个人的票要好（节省5美元，在伦敦地铁），从欧洲那种报亭买刮式电话卡给家里打电话，每分钟只要几便士，而不是几美元。

Order a carafe of house wine instead of a bottle of fine wine (saves $20 in Rome). Choose a two-star hotel rather than a three-star one (saves $60 per night in Paris). Buy the transit pass rather than individual tickets (saves $5 per ride on London's Tube). Buy a scratch-off phone card at a European newsstand for calls home, and you'll pay pennies rather than dollars per minute.

来回去机场坐公交比打车省钱（节省40美元，在维也纳），点那种与饭菜搭售的酒比单点一瓶好酒便宜（节省20美元，在罗马），选择二星级酒店比选择三星级酒店好（每晚节省60美元，在巴黎），购买国境通行证比单个人票好（节省5美元，在伦敦地铁），从欧洲那种报亭买刮式的电话卡给家里打电话，每分钟只要几便士，而不是几美元。

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

我从来不相信英文可以在几周之内有质的提高，但是刚上大学时我还是买了很多期《疯狂英语》，原因是那几期真的很&正点&！

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

偶然进入了一个台湾高中语文教师的博客，找到了这样一串句子，是Jack London最好的句子。

Molecular Distillation is a kind of high vacuum distillation method, which is suitable for the separation of high boiling, heat sensitivity and viscidity products.

分子蒸馏技术是一种在高真空条件下进行的连续蒸馏过程，适合于分离高沸点、热敏性及具有生物活性的混合物。

They are to the Noughties what yuppies were to the Eighties .

那在六十年代是时髦的，但在八十年代肯定是过时了