宁愿...不愿...

"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,"

我宁愿只当一任的好总统，也不愿当两任平庸的总统。

In Britain, too, banks said that big companies were selling bonds or shares rather than increasing their overdrafts.

同样，在英国，银行表示大公司宁愿出卖债券或者股票，也不愿增加他们的透支款项。

Nobody wants fetters; even birds would rather fly freely amid nature 's lordship than stay well-provided in cages all day.

没有人喜欢被束缚，即使是小鸟也宁愿在大自然中自由地翱翔，而不愿整日呆在笼子里养尊处优。

He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle.

他完全可以狠狠一拳将她制服，但他不愿出手，宁愿扭斗。最后他终于按住了她的一双胳膊。

I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than go play golf, but I had to learn how to play for the movie Tin Cup.

我宁愿自己的眼睛被针扎着，也不愿去打高尔夫球，但是我必须为了电影《锡杯》学会如何打。

I felt willing rather to starve at sea than to confront such perils.

我宁愿在海上饿死也不愿冒此风险。

I'd rather play my music for 10 people than play Avril's in front of 10,000 people.

我宁愿为10 人演奏我的音乐而不愿在10，000 人的前面扮演Avril。

The worse being happening, anyone will agree that it would be better to stay on an inverted catamaran compare to be waiting the search teams on a tiny rubber liferaft.

如果最糟糕的情况发生了，每个人都会选择在宁愿选择一艘颠倒的双体船也不愿在橡皮救生筏中等待救援队的到来。

The much larger Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was actually faster than the Dauntless, but it had less range and very poor handling characteristics.

SB2C 地狱俯冲者的体型虽然更大但是速度却比无畏要快。但由于它的可怜的航程和操作上的困难，使许多海军机组宁愿飞SBD而不愿飞SB2C。

The inefficiencies of a network -- all that redundancy and ricocheting vectors, things going from here to there and back just to get across the street -- encompasses imperfection rather than ejecting it.

网络的你效率——所有那些重复弹跳的载体，那此仅仅为了穿过街道而来来回回，往返不断的东西——宁愿包围瑕疵，也不愿驱除它。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。