instead

instead

美 [ɪnˈsted] 　英 [ɪn'sted]

• adv.代替；反而；顶替；却
• 网络相反；改为；替代

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Instead, he hunkered down in his tiny home office here and channeled whatever remaining energy he could muster into a slim paperback.

相反，他盘坐在家中的办公房里，聚集一切剩余能量于编撰一本小册子之上。

But some companies have found a solution: instead of streaming all data, they equip planes with a system that streams on demand.

一些航空公司想出了一种解决方案：不传送所有的实时数据，而是在飞机上装上一种系统，这种系统可根据需要传送数据。

Instead, he said, the firm's profitability comes from 'a view and idea on the markets. '

他说，与此相反，公司的盈利能力是来自对市场的洞见。

But with college expenses looming, I couldn't help thinking that it would be really nice if he used his graduation cash for that instead.

但由于不久就面临支付他上大学的费用，我禁不住想，如果他用自己收到的毕业礼金买那个就好了。

An easy trap to fall into is trying to impress clients with your promises instead of your work.

一个容易掉入的陷阱，是用你的承诺给客户留下印象，而不是你的工作。

I cannot deny the beauty of it, but it pains me to see people placing their hopes in gods instead of taking charges on their own.

我并不否定它的壮观美丽，然而让我感到不愉快的是人们把他们的愿望放在神明上却不肯自己下决定。

He set out to get a fish dinner, and instead, he seems to be playing a ball game.

他是来吃一顿鱼餐，然而，他看起来在玩一个球。

For some reason, he was unable to look Dumbledore in the eyes, and spoke instead to his knees.

不知为什么，他不能正视邓布利多的眼睛，只好对着他的膝盖说话。

Talk about ungrateful. Instead of vilifying James, Clevelanders ought to be thanking him for the great ride.

说到忘恩负义，克利夫兰人不应痛骂詹姆斯，反而应该为其了不起的表现而感谢他。

he said to me , instead : " you know - my descent to the earth . . . tomorrow will be its anniversary . "

但是，他不回答我，他对我说：“你知道，我落在地球上到明天就一周年了”

Instead, he began the press conference by reading out a summary of the Fed's statement and its economic projections.

相反，记者会是在他宣读美联储声明和经济预测的摘要中开始。

workers will only do what he knows what he should do with your check, instead do what you want him to do or think he should know.

员工只会做他知道他应该做的和你检查的，而不是做你想他做的或认为他应该知道做的。

I knew that horrible evil spider had killed him, and if he had not gotten in the way it would have killed my mom instead.

我知道是那个邪恶的蜘蛛杀了先生，如果不是先生，它就会杀了妈妈。

Instead she was holding a small spade and began to dig into the carpet, pushing it away to each side as if making a furrow to sow seeds.

而是她握着一个小铲子，开始在地毯上挖掘，把它推到两侧，好像犁出一道沟缝去播种。

He did not even thank the boy. Instead, he told him to run along, now, or he might be late for school.

他都不谢一声这个男孩，反而叫他快跑，还说不然上学就要迟到了。

I would be carefree as long as I could, or at least until I got some care- instead of having my cares in advance.

我将尽可能的无忧无虑，或者至少我在我付出真心前先得到真心

But how frightened she felt to see instead of her dear little fawn a noble gentleman walk in with a gold crown on his head.

但是这让她感到如此的惊吓，没有看到她亲爱的小鹿，反而看到走进的这个高贵的绅士头戴着金王冠。

Take advantage of the nice weather and get out of those stuffy cars. Walk or cycle to places instead.

充分利用难得的好天气，避免外出乘坐不通风的汽车，尽量用散步或者骑自行车来代替。

Dr. Pausch has asked Carnegie Mellon not to copyright his last lecture, and instead to leave it in the public domain.

鲍什要求卡耐基-梅隆大学不要保留他最后一次演讲的版权，而是让它成为公共资源。

I think you may be able to see something happen in the sky, two white dots instead of one white dot.

我想你也许可以看到空中发生的一些情况，看到两个而不是一个白色的点。

Instead, electrons are shared among many atoms.

这样，电子就为许多原子所共有。

He just breezed in as if he'd only been away a day instead of ten years.

他飘然而入，似乎他仅离开一天，而不是10年。

I know what love means now, and instead of being ashamed of it, I'm proud of it.

我如今明白什么叫做爱情了，并且我非但不觉得害臊，反而觉得骄傲。

"Why don't you fill the bath with water and get into it, instead of wasting it and throwing it away each time? "

“为什么你不把浴缸里装些水，洗一个澡，而每次要乱泼？”

He just gallivants about instead of working.

他不工作只是在闲逛。

Instead of raising it, thought he, they have lowered it.

他们不是把它扛上来的，他想，而是把它推下来的。

She thought the child must be a little confused at meeting a stranger instead of Miss Ley, and unhappy in his disgrace.

她想，这孩子没看见莱伊小姐，而是会见一个陌生女人，一定有点儿惶惑，并且为自己干的丑事而难堪。

The newt, instead of producing the belly of the host cells above the transplant, was stimulated to produce a second central nervous system.

移植块上方的宿主细胞不是产生蝾螈的腹部，而是被刺激产生第二个神经系统。

She tried to go away, but her feet were treacherous, and carried her to the group instead.

她想走开，可是她那双脚偏不听话，偏把她带到那一群同学那儿。

He contented himself with going a bit farther back, and looking at her instead of the book.

他挺乐意地走开些，望着她，而不去看书。

If he had gone on instead of going back the whole course of English history might have been changed.

如果当时他不撤军而继续前进的话，整个英国的历史进程就会改观。

The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty-five miles of dusty road.

她跟家里相隔只有二十五哩路，却仿佛觉得隔着一个大洲一般。

Instead of the answer he demanded, that inexplicable counterinfluence cut across the current of his thought.

然而，岔断他的思潮的可不是他祈求的那个“回音”，而是那股不可思议的反对势力。

A fire not quenched demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it would consume.

一堆未熄灭的火须得大家始终小心戒备，防止它燃成熊熊火焰，否则，它不仅不能使人取暖，而会烧毁一切。

The President was a man who would appreciate a candidate who went about getting office that way instead of pulling wires.

总统一定喜欢候选人用这种方式来谋差使，而不喜欢幕后操纵的方式。

When you're older, you'll be sorry that you footled away your youth instead of preparing for a profession.

在你上了岁数时就会感到遗憾，你虚度了青春年华而没有学得一份专业知识。

Why don't you do some work instead of just frigging around all day?

你干吗不去找点活干而不再整天瞎胡闹？

A pasty yellow juice instead of a clear one can be squeezed from strobil.

球果压出的是黄色的而不是澄清的浆液。

Instead of driving home a different car every night to become more familiar with our various products, I now had a driver.

我不是每晚开回一辆不同的汽车以熟悉我们各式各样的产品，而是雇用了一名司机。

She wasn't sent to the juvenile court; instead she was cautioned.

她未被送上少年法庭，而是受到了警告。

Students are encouraged to develop critical thinking instead of accepting opinions without questioning them.

要鼓励学生培养判断力，而非不加质疑地接受各种观点。

I suggest also that we use the expression "Cairo Three" instead of Teheran, which should be buried.

另外，我建议我们使用“开罗三”这个词，而不用德黑兰字样。这个地点决不透露。

Instead of being called travelers, they are known as tourists.

人们不把他们称为旅行者，而是叫做游客。

Laws should stop protecting banks and protect people instead.

法律应该从保护银行转而去保护一般人。

The plan boomeranged when they were trapped instead of their victim.

当他们而不是受害者陷于困境时这项计划伤及了原谋划者。

He wanted to decide for himself instead of blindly following his parents' advice.

他想自己拿主意，而不是盲目听从他父母的意见。

Instead, an employee, amused at the bank's Nineteen Eighty-Four management style, set up a fake e-mail address and sent the page to me.

美林的某位员工，觉得该行的1984式管理风格（NineteenEighty-Fourmanagementstyle）很好笑，于是编了一个电子邮件地址，结果却把该内容发给了我。

Instead, let me emphasize one of the messages from the book: Your model must be tailored to the problem.

那么，我要强调的是本书透露的一个信息：你的模型必须要根据问题进行裁剪。

And I gonna lie to the Queen again by preparing her with a young deer instead of you for her dinner.

我也要再骗皇后一次，为她准备一只年幼的鹿当晚餐来替代你。

A man missed a mouse he was trying to shoot with a small-caliber handgun and wounded his girlfriend instead, Pa. State police said.

宾州警察局称，有个闷墩用小口径手枪打耗子，耗子没打到，子弹却伤了女朋友。

It might be due to the Halloween weekend, but the above reminds me of the below image. Imagine if Medusa had conodonts instead of snakes.

可能是因为周末是万圣节的关系，上面的图片让我联想到了下面的画面。想象一下，头发不是蛇而是牙形刺的美杜莎。

Unable to work, I began to read the comments from friends and family instead.

由于无法工作，我开始阅读朋友们和家人的评论。

Though you can pass another closure to it, instead pass it a reference to another function called addEmployee.

尽管您可以传递另一个闭包给它，而不是将其作为一个引用传递给另一个名为addEmployee的函数。

Instead, it just seems to be the immediate descendant of the previous version.

与此相反，它只是前面版本的直接继承。

I wish the tagline supported this idea more, instead of the overly generic your-world thing, which could apply to any other mobile provider.

我想标语支持这个想法，而不是过于通用的世界的东西，它可以适用于任何其他的移动服务提供商，。

Namely, it is a construction to mark the range by means of quantitative devices instead of a simple combination of a range and a quantity.

“范围量”包括总量和部分量两种，不同的方位词在标量内容和组构方式上各具特色。

Instead, the children were kept at school until the next day, when his parents and those of some of the other children began to claim them.

后来，学生们在学校一直呆到第二天，这时他的父母和另一些孩子的父母才来领他们回去。

Since she did not reply, he concluded that she was not there and she was actually in the room of Xiong Wancheng instead.

她没有应声，他便可能据此认为，她当时没在里面，而是跑到了住持熊万成的房间。

There was a time when men were men and talked to women instead of trying to impress them.

在过去男人就是男人，他们能正常和女人交谈而不是想方设法讨他们的欢心。

I also wasn't clued into the fact that I never really tried to go after girls, and instead passively waited for them to come into my life.

我也意识到我并没有试着去追求过哪个女孩，而只是被动地等待她们进入我的生活。

Instead, you'll have time to test both the feasibility of your business idea and the practicality of you running such a business.

相反，你还有时间去测试你经营理念的可行性以及你经营的事业的实用性。

Instead of trying to read minds and hitting a brick wall, you may have to take charge and risk running afoul of the suits.

与尝试揣摩心思并碰壁不同，您可能必须负起责来并承担与主管发生冲突的风险。

Instead of letters, he wanted to use shapes that were easy to tell apart by touch.

他想用手的触觉容易分辨的模型来代替字母。

Instead, he decided to go out on his own and build what would become of the world's most recognizable brands.

相反，他毅然决定自己创业，创建世界上最知名品牌。

To the company's credit, instead of trying to cover up the incident, IKEA acted swiftly and ruthlessly, firing two top executives.

为了公司的信誉着想，宜家并未采取试图遮掩事态的做法，而是迅速、无情地作出了反应——解雇了两名高管人员。

Instead of answering, Jesus leaned over and wrote on the ground with his finger, as if he had not heard them.

耶稣没有回答，而是俯下身用手指在地上写字，仿佛没听见他们的话。