英汉双语例句-生物医药大词典

Instead of buying an expensive engagement ring that just ends up in a drawer, couples are buying things they can wear all the time such as brand-name watches.

中文意思：
与其高价购买一只仅仅标识承诺的订婚戒指，不如买一件可以随时佩戴的东西，比如名表。

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	Instead of being objects that arose only in the murky past, they can now be studied up close and in detail.			现在，球状星团不再像过去那样模糊黯淡，它们已经成为可被详细观察研究的对象。
	Instead of being one with the Father, they became one with the ravenous wolf and cared not for the sheep (v. 12).			他们没有与父是一，反而与贪婪的狼是一，并且不爱惜羊（12）。
	Instead of bikinis and high heels, the 78 female contestants dress in traditional Mayan knee or calf-length skirts, headdresses and shawls embroidered with flowers and animals.			大赛上，人们看不见比基尼和高跟鞋，只见参赛选手身着传统的玛雅族及膝长裙，佩戴着绣满花朵和动物图案的头巾和披肩，走在铺满松针的舞台上。
	Instead of building a nest egg, many Chinese parents give all their money to their children.			（许多中国父母，没有为自己存钱，而把全部钱都给自己的儿女。）
	Instead of building directly over permafrost, they chose to build some parts on high bridges.			他们不在冻土上直接修筑铁路，而是选择某些部份盖在高架桥上。
	Instead of buying an expensive engagement ring that just ends up in a drawer, couples are buying things they can wear all the time such as brand-name watches.			与其高价购买一只仅仅标识承诺的订婚戒指，不如买一件可以随时佩戴的东西，比如名表。
	Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.			8你们也没有看守我的圣物，却派别人在圣地替你们看守我所吩咐你们的。
	Instead of charging for each shrink-wrapped box, firms can sell programs as a service, collecting monthly payments, or giving them away and earning money from advertisements.			软件公司可以不用再兜售那些紧缩套装软件盒子了，它们可以把软件当成一种服务，按月计费，或者索性免费发布给用户使用，通过相关广告赚钱。
	Instead of chattering on worldly matters, we monastic practitioners ought to discuss only about the Dharma.			54修道人不谈佛法，而谈俗事，这非出家人的本分。
	Instead of choosing one of the competing specifications, a common response of OMG members is to ask the submitters to merge their features into a single specification.			OMG成员通常的回应不是选择一个有竞争力的规范，而是要求提交者将他们的特征合并为单一的规范。
	Instead of claiming to practise a form of inter-governmental diplomacy, it could renounce its special diplomatic status and call itself what it is—the biggest non-governmental organisation in the world.			它可以放弃其特殊的外交身份，恢复自己的本然——全世界最大的非政府组织，而不是声称要实践一种政府间外交形式。