A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Rather
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
没有什么是真正有效的，除非你想做别的事情。
If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.
如果需要多次提高债务上限，我宁愿实现储蓄。
I would rather regret the things i have done than the things i have not.
我宁愿为我做过的事后悔，也不愿为我没有做过的事后悔。
I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
我宁愿死在天堂，也不愿害怕做我认为正确的事。
I'd rather die tomorrow than to live a hundred years without knowing you.
我宁愿明天死去，也不愿活一百年而不认识你。
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
对我来说，世界是相当美丽的，如果你看它。尤其是自然。
I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.
我宁愿对一件事做一两次拍摄，然后看看效果如何。
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
我宁愿面前有一整瓶酒，也不愿做额叶切除术。
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
我想我已经习惯了不被理解而不是被理解。
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
我们宁可说自己的坏话，也不愿完全不谈论自己。
I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
我是那种宁愿呆在家里也不愿给我拍照的人。
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
但我宁愿在我的坟墓里做一个自由的人，也不愿做一个傀儡或奴隶。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.
所以在不久的将来我们希望不是截肢而是给你注射细胞来恢复血液流动。我们还在实验室里从零开始创造了完整的红细胞管。所以有很多令人兴奋的事情在进行中。
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
一个人的目的地永远不是一个地方，而是一种看待事物的新方式。
That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
更专制的组织能够生存下来并取得胜利，这一点通常没有引起注意，因为人们关注的是组织的目标，这些目标是多种多样的，而不是它们的结构，因为这些结构很相似。
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
我发现刻画一个商人相当容易。对我来说，温文尔雅、相当残酷和无能是天生的。
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
我宁愿让他认为太阳绕着地球转，星星在明亮的蓝色天空中闪烁着那么多的光芒，也不愿让他把这件事放在心上。
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
也许一个人要到很老的时候才能学会被逗乐而不是被震惊。