1、These symptoms may be referable to virus infectionrather than parasites.(这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的，而与寄生虫无关。)
2、Voters elected him to represent them,rather than narrow sectional interests.(选民们选举他来代表大众的利益，而不是狭隘的群体利益。)
3、The spicy flavours in these dishes call for redsrather than whites.(这些菜肴味道辛辣，宜配红葡萄酒而不是白葡萄酒。)
4、What made you choose the onerather than the other?(你怎么选了这个而不是那个？)
5、He needed a sounding boardrather than thinking alone.(他需要一个参谋，而不是独自思考。)
6、It's healthier to snack on fruitrather than chocolate.(作为点心，水果比巧克力更有益于健康。)
7、She had started to devote her energies to teachingrather than performing.(她已经开始将精力投入到教学而不是表演中。)
8、In this exercise, the muscles are elongatingrather than contracting.(在这项运动中，肌肉是在延伸而不是在收缩。)
9、It was a jestrather than a reproach.(这是个玩笑而非指责。)
10、We tend to be traditionalrather than fashion-forward in our designs.(我们的设计往往流于传统而没有超前意识。)
11、She prefers to actrather than direct.(她宁愿当演员，不愿当导演。)
12、It now seems a probabilityrather than just a possibility.(这件事似乎十拿九稳，而不是仅有可能。)
13、Increasingly, training is taking place in the officerather than outside it.(在职培训日益增加，而不是脱产进行。)
14、They use opium as a sedative,rather than as a narcotic.(他们把鸦片作为镇静剂，而不是作为麻醉剂。)
15、These payments are denominated as 'fees'rather than 'salary'.(付出的这几笔款子称为“费用”而不是“工资”。)
16、He would be moved sideways,rather than demoted.(他会被平级调动，而非被降职。)
17、Gerald's violin strings are made of gutrather than steel.(杰拉尔德的小提琴弦是用肠线而不是钢丝制成的。)
18、The report was a device used to hiderather than reveal problems.(这份报告不是揭露问题而是为掩盖问题而耍的花招。)
19、The zoo needed better managementrather than more money.(动物园需要更好的管理而非更多的钱。)
20、Their problems were circumstantialrather than personal.(他们的困难是环境而非个人所致。)
21、I think I'll have a cold drinkrather than coffee.(我想要冷饮，不要咖啡。)
22、Their main job is to preserve healthrather than treat illness.(他们的主要职责是保健而不是治病。)
23、Under certain conditions, electrons can behave like wavesrather than particles.(在某些条件下，电子能像波而不是粒子那样运动。)
24、The food here satisfies gourmandsrather than gourmets.(这里的食物可以吃饱饕餮，但不能让美食家满意。)
25、You are buying direct,rather than through an agent.(你在直接购买，而不是通过代理商购买。)
26、Older parents seem to be the normrather than the exception nowadays.(生育较晚的大龄父母在今天似乎成了常事，而不是个例。)
27、He will drain,rather than enrich, the country.(他将耗尽而不是增加国家的财富。)
28、It exists in dreamsrather than actuality.(它于梦想而非实际中存在。)
29、The test was to assess aptituderather than academic achievement.(该测试将评估能力而不是学业成绩。)
30、The problem was psychologicalrather than physiological.(这是个心理而不是生理问题。)
rather than
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宁可 ... 也不愿；与其 ... 倒不如；而不是