People try to change the world - instead of themselves.
每个人都想改变世界—却不改变他自己。
Good instead of themselves that "a good process will have good results", they say, "Good work, good material to produce a good product.
好工是指拥有好的设计、好的工艺、好的生产、更要有好的技能。
Instead of finding things out for themselves, they make assumptions that often turn out to be wrong.
与其自己去探索，他们会做假设，而这些假设往往是错误的。
Many people do fun things to make themselves stand out, like wear silly clothes or do things instead of just running.
很多人会做一些有趣的事情来让自己脱颖而出，比如跑步的时候穿傻傻的衣服或者做一些其他事情，而不仅仅是单纯的跑步。
In today's youth sport setting, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport.
在今天的青年体育环境中，年轻运动员可能更担心谁会赢，而不是让自己开心和享受这项运动。
Most kids that age would be picking out candies or toys in a store for themselves, instead of helping their mom pick out fruits as the two kids did.
这个年龄的大多数孩子会在商店里自己挑选糖果或玩具，而不是像这两个孩子那样帮妈妈挑选水果。
If instead we regard the financing of warfare by taxation in this period as a background condition, then we will see the English reverse themselves as the main cause of the revolt.
如果我们将这一时期的通过税收来支持军事作为背景条件，那么我们就会看到英国人自己的失败反倒是造成反抗的主要原因。
They end up asking parents or teachers what to do instead of thinking by themselves.
他们最终会问父母或老师该怎么做，而不是自己思考。
Instead of sending a manuscript to a publisher, some authors turn their manuscripts into eBooks themselves.
有些作者不把手稿寄给出版商，而是自己把它们变成电子书。
Instead of just giving money to poor people, it has tried to educate people and give them the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty.
它不只是给穷人钱，而是努力教育人们，为他们提供脱贫所需的工具。
Instead of trying to control our children, we teach them to control themselves.
我们不是试图控制孩子，我们教会了他们自我控制。
When asked to make a group decision, instead of sharing vital information known only to themselves, people tend to repeat information that everyone already knows.
当人们被要求做出一个群体决策时，他们倾向于重复所有人已知的，而不是分享只有自己知晓的重要信息。
This is not because of the accent, but because they often use rhymes to describe things instead of the words themselves.
这倒并不是由于他们的口音，而是因为他们惯于使用韵词来取代表示事物的单词本身来描述事物。
So instead of really being themselves, they resort to strictly standing out for the sake of standing out.
因此取而代之成为自己的做法是，为了脱颖而出而诉诸于苛求的让自己显得醒目。
Instead of empowering themselves, some people actually empower their Guru and turn them into a demi-god.
有些人不去强化自身能力，却去强化他们的导师，把他们变成自己的崇拜对象。
Once handed the money, he abandoned his promised strategy, and instead of buying assets at market prices, began to overpay for preferred stocks in the Banks themselves.
可当他拿到前后，他却放弃了他最开始鼓吹的策略。他没有以市场价格购买资产，取而代之的是他直接购买那些银行自己的优先股票。
Instead of working with the people most affected and helping build their capacity to protect themselves, offshore balancing does little to change the problem in positive ways.
“离岸置衡”策略并没有保护最受战争影响的平民，也没有帮助他们建立自我保护的能力。可以说，这一策略没有很大的从积极方面改善问题。
Instead of just letting themselves drift off into dreamland, they kept on checking to see if they were still awake, and that quick mental check woke them up.
他们无法让自己沉入梦乡，反而不断自省是否尚未入眠，而正是这种时时短促的心理检查令他们难以入眠。
For example, after a talk about the risks of malaria in pregnancy, the men realized the importance of giving bed nets to their wives to sleep under, instead of using them themselves.
例如，在关于妊娠期间疟疾风险的讲座之后，男人们认识到让妻子睡在蚊帐中的重要性，所以不再自己使用蚊帐。
Not sacrificing for their own society's children, people would themselves become children, basing their lives on pleasure and ease instead of meanings to be fulfilled.
不需要为了后代作出牺牲，人们会把自己当作孩子来对待。舒服惬意的生活取代了有意义的人生。
And that is perhaps why it is loaded with socially inept information junkies who would prefer to hang out by themselves instead of attending a party.
也许这正是为什么IT充斥着那些不擅社交的、更愿意自己出去闲逛也不参加聚会的人的原因。
When asked to make a group decision, people tend to repeat what everyone already knows, instead of sharing vital information known only to themselves.
为什么团体不能有效地做到资源共享？当要求做集体决定时，大家往往会重复每个人已经知道的信息，而不是分享只有自己知道的重要信息。
Having controllers handle events themselves instead of the events has also been discussed.
我们也已经对让控制器自己来处理事件而不是由事件本身处理进行了讨论。
Instead of the car club Web site working for them, they found themselves working hard for their Web site.
他们发现不是汽车俱乐部Web站点在为他们工作，而是自己在为那个Web站点工作。
Using them does simplify the code a bit for the cases where you'll need to handle the SOAPElements themselves instead of working with your data objects.
对于那些需要处理SOAPElement本身而不是使用数据对象的场合，使用这些API可以在一定程度上简化代码。
The file is read when Eclipse starts to identify any default preference values that should be used instead of those defined by the plug-ins themselves.
当Eclipse启动时会读取这个文件，并用来指定所有默认的属性值，而不是去使用插件本身定义的那些值。
That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company.
这也是他们为什么要把自己定位为“媒体公司”而非技术公司的原因。
That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company.
这也是他们为什么要把自己定位为“媒体公司”而非技术公司的原因。
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