A teacher may use it when she walks into a room where the students are playing and talking, instead of studying.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Let's imagine maybe instead we just immediately dropped the pressure let the system expand against the lower pressure.

现在假设,我们很快地降低压力,让系统在低的外压力下膨胀。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

instead, he threw in a six-week-old puppy and said "keep it!" and ran away. So I got a puppy.

但他却扔进来了一只六个月大的小狗，说“养它吧！”然后跑掉了。于是我有了一只小狗。

大城市是否危险？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

They can now spend their energy on creating new ideas instead of reinventing ideas that other people have already done quite well.

创造自己的观点,而不用重新整理,别人已经阐述很好的观点。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"Instead of shopping in just the regular shopping mall we were kind of forced to go to these bargain type shops."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

So instead of having 20% of people's time spent on their own projects, I make people hang out with each other.

我让大家都待在一块儿,而不是将那20%的时间，用在自己的工作上。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

If you use an alcohol-based product instead of soap and water, make sure it contains at least sixty percent alcohol.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

Milton seemed to have decided against marriage as he was making the decision to wed himself to his poetry instead.

那里弥尔顿似乎已经决定不结婚了,因为他已经下定决心要致力于诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

you can offer more flavors instead of one cake you know you can offer six different kind of cupcakes."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

It refers instead, to the concrete, collective, communal salvation from national suffering and oppression, particularly in the form of foreign rule or enslavement.

相反，它指的是很具体的，集体的，社会的拯救,把一个国家从苦难和压迫中解救出来，尤其是那些在外族统治者奴役下的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So, when the people of the North expected a speech of victory, he gave them a speech of reconstruction, instead.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

But, you know why not do something a little special, little different, and they decided instead to use lithium.

但是你懂的，为什么不做的更特殊，更与众不同一些呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The students use the mixture to fertilize the soil instead of buying chemical fertilizers that could harm the environment.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Instead of this reversible isothermal step, Let's make it an irreversible isothermal step.

不是可逆等温过程，而是不可逆等温过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The leaders agreed to make the G20 the main group for their international economic cooperation, instead of the G8.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things and gradually get better and better at it.

相反，它们来回乱窜，做各种尝试,然后逐渐对于从迷笼中逃脱变得熟练。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And President Lincoln sent thousands of troops to chase Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, instead of helping McClellan at Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

So there is more even playing field instead of the 21:1 ratio, we are doing much more, focusing on the positive.

比起21比1的比率，两方更均衡，我们做得更多，除了专注于积极的一面。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Because if they work any harder than that, then the other person is just going to slack off instead.

因为我们知道如果自己超额完成工作,其他人就可以少做点工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And,it means that transgenic marmosets can be produced from breeding instead of by the lengthy process of injecting fertilized eggs.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

And, in fact, instead of having just an electrode here, what I could do is I could have an electrode that is.

实际上，我不是要得到一个电极，我所做的是,有一个电极。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The even better news is that Fib instead of 25 calls, it was only 11 calls.

更好的消息是,上次调用了25次，这次只调用了11次。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The government wants forty-six creditors to accept two billion dollars instead of the seven billion dollars the company owes.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

As it becomes more of a unity it will be like a household instead of a polis and a human being instead of a household.

当它愈趋近于一体,它变成像是家庭，而非都会,更像一个个体，而非家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That bill would not create an independent consumer agency, but instead a new office at the Federal Reserve, the central bank.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Why do you think the UK uses its own currency instead of using Euros like in other European countries?

英国使用自己的货币，而不是像其他欧盟成员一样使用欧元，你怎么看待这个问题？

欧洲中的英国 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We are honoring instead the integrity of what they're saying without thinking about whether or not it might be true.

我们事实上反而在,尊重他们所说内容的真实性,却从未想过这到底是不是真的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选