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Rather than buy out a number of parcel holders - who might ask exorbitant prices, or simply hold out and refuse to sell - the government can take the land necessary for the highway or pipeline, and pay fair (but not exorbitant) compensation.
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政府可以在支付适当(不是太高的)补偿后,征用该高速公路或管道铺设而必需的土地,而不是买通那些可能漫天要价或拧是不卖的土地所有者。 |
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Rather than buying the cheapest house in a wealthy neighborhood, settle for a town where people have similar salaries.
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还有,与其在富人区里买幢最便宜的房子,不如和那些与你生活水平相当的人住在一起。 |
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Rather than cause trouble,he went away.
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他宁可走开而不愿惹麻烦。 |
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Rather than ceasing to exist, it became dormant and in that state — unbound from any particular fuel — it became diffused throughout the cosmos.
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它并非停止存在,而是处于静态,在这个不受燃料束缚的状态下扩散开来,弥漫于空间。 |
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Rather than chivvying them to perform better, investors shrug their shoulders, sell up and move on.
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相对于督促他们更好的表现来说,更常见的是投资者耸耸肩膀,将其全部卖出,然后继续向前。 |
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Rather than continue negotiations, Juve representatives have told Liverpool they're prepared to stand aside if the Premiership giants agree to a pre-contract agreement over a summer deal for midfielder Momo Sissoko.
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尤文的代表没有选择继续谈判,他们通知利物浦,如果红军能够同意就西索科夏季转会一事达成一致的话,尤文将退出马斯切拉诺的争夺。 |
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Rather than designing a machine for existing gamers, it gambled that non-gamers represented an untapped market and devised a machine with far broader appeal.
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他们认为玩家以外的群体是尚未开发的市场,于是冒险为他们,而非现有的玩家设计游戏机。 |
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Rather than dismiss it as a fluke, they will try every way possible to find it.
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他们就会像猫爪一样紧盯着目标,然后尝试各种可能的方法找到它,解决它。 |
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Rather than do their own research, money pours into the market and pushes up certain stocks beyond reasonable expectations.
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他们不会自己调查研究,而只是不停的把钱投入股市而把某些股票炒的高于它应有的价位。 |
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Rather than doing multiple checks for each type of input, one would make one call to the input sub-system and it would transparently check all devices.
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与其直接依次去检测每种输入设备,不如让我们来调用一次输入子系统,它会透明地去完成检测所有的输入设备的工作。 |
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Rather than evaluating programs in terms of how happy they make people, how satisfied those people become, programs must be evaluated in terms of the quality of the discontent they engender.
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对于各项计划的评估,不要看其令人们高兴的程度,使人们满意的程度,而要看其引起的不满情绪属于什么性质。 |