had rather的例句大全

Next day as Lily ran lightheartedly towards the playground she reflected how lucky she was to have met the strange boy – or rather, that he had noticed her.

第二天莉莉跑到游乐场，心里轻松极了。她觉得自己能碰到那个古怪的男孩，或者说那个男孩注意到自己，实在是太幸运了！

I had great fun yesterday evening learning some of the string figures out of 'Mathematical Recreations'... I have been made a school prefect this term, to my great surprise as I wasn't even a house-prefect last term. Last term they started having at least two in each house which rather accounts for it.

昨天傍晚，我在《数学之乐》中看到了弦图，非常有意思……有件出乎意料的事，我这学期当上学校的监督生了，而我上个学期连学院的监督生都不是。

If I had a magic power, I would rather make all of them disappear.

如果我有一本魔法书，我一定让他们都消失。

What did it turn out to be but a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? "You may be a treasure," quoth master pock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."

他刨出出来的是一颗不知什么时候遗落在庭院里的珍珠“你也许这是个宝贝”，公鸡大人说，“对于人类来说，他们会珍惜你，但在我看来，我宁可要一粒大麦也不想琢一粒珍珠。”

They had the privilege of an official car, and Don Bayley was rather pleased at being able to make a first visit to Cambridge.

他们有权使用专车，唐·贝利很高兴自己第一次拜访剑桥。

Christianson's husband, however, felt she had a brighter future ahead of her as poacher rather than gamekeeper.

然而，孙玮的丈夫认为她当“偷猎者”比当“猎场看守人”更有前途。

The management had preferred to play safe until then and this, together with their rather poor reputation, was the cause of their problems.

在此之前，管理层更倾向于谨慎行事，而这一点，再加上他们相当糟糕的声誉，是他们出现问题的原因。

Much as I love this Indian Summer, I wish we had this warm weather in the summer rather than in October.

尽管我很喜欢秋天末温暖的天气，我更希望夏天也能有这个温度而不是十月份。

He continued by making a definitive recording in 1953 of Bach's "Art of Fugue," and publishing an impassioned argument that the piece had been written for solo harpsichord rather than ensemble.

他继续努力，在1953年录制了一张巴赫《赋格的艺术》的权威唱片，同时出版了一篇热情洋溢的论文，提出这首曲子并不是为了合奏，而是为了羽管键琴独奏而写的观点。

On the question of a widow remarry, the adopted attitude was rather loose from any one before or after the Tang times that had left much freedom of marriage for women of the Tang dynasty, but there were not much cases in the practice.

妇女再嫁问题上，由于唐代采取了较宽松的态度，给唐代敦煌女性较大的自由选择余地，但真正实践的人却很少。

Rather, they should actively combat the deficit of trust that had rent the Egyptian social fabric.

相反，他们应该积极参与解决撕裂埃及社会结构的信任缺失问题。

Rather than rail against a system that unfairly privileges certain women over others, they railed against a woman who had unfairly benefited from it.

她们没把矛头指向那个不公平的、赋予其中一些女性特权的那个体系，却把矛盾指向了不公平地受益于这个体系的我。

On arrival at Teddington he had joined the local Walton Athletics Club, and had taken up running as a serious amateur. He was a long-distance runner, rather than a sprinter;

他刚到特丁顿，就加入了当地的健身俱乐部，并且将跑步发展成了非常专业的业余爱好。

It is similar to one American scholar had said, settlement rather than decision after the hearing has become the final outcome of many class actions.

如同美国学者所言，和解而不是审理后的判决，成了绝大多数以集团为基础审理的案件的最终结果。

Rather that recognizing it as a completely new element, though, Scheele believed that he had found a dephlogisticated version of muriatic acid.

他还记录了氯气拥有漂白物体的性质，此外，氯气会使昆虫迅速死亡。可惜直到这时舍勒还认为他发现的并不是新元素，而只是一种缺乏燃素的盐酸。

Because I had such a different undergraduate degree, I wanted to invest two years [ rather than one], she says.

她说：因为我的本科学位与商学相去甚远，所以我想投入两年（而不是一年）时间来学习。

'I heard you had some funny phone calls.' — 'Yeah, that's why yours rather put the wind up me.'

“我听说你接到了一些骚扰电话。”——“没错儿，所以你的电话把我吓坏了。”

He had a bookish and rather shy look about him.

他外表有点学究气，相当害羞。

It had more perfect function in bank of issue and government's bank rather than in banker's bank and bank of supervision and management.

中央银行在发行的银行和政府的银行两方面职能比较完备，而在银行的银行和监管的银行两方面职能比较残缺。

Stefano bertasi, of the International Chamber of Commerce, said there had been some reports recently of European companies bringing outsourced operations closer to the home market because of concerns about reliability and quality rather than cost.

国际商会（international chamber of commerce）的斯特凡诺贝尔塔西（stefano bertasi）表示，最近有一些报道称，由于担心可靠性及质量（而非成本），一些欧洲公司将外包业务迁往更靠近本土的地方。