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Rather than business school teachers, the professors come across as zoologists contemplating the hunting, feeding (but, thankfully, not mating) habits of a rare and rapacious species.
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与其讲这些教授是`商学院教师，不如讲这些人是`动物学家，钻研—种稀有食肉动物的猎食及进食的习惯（谢天谢地，不用研究其交配习惯）。 |
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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。 |
