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

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

"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

R/Cv OK, so that means that this is really instead of -1 R over Cv. it's really gamma minus one.

现在,变成了γ

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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 can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

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 being my program, I'm running, just my ideas We have other people run their programs, have their ideas.

而不是推行我的项目，我来负责，全是我的观点,我们有其他成员实施一些项目，表达他们的观点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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 of having a central bank we decided that there would be a list of banks called the National Banks.

与拥有一个中央银行不同的是,我们决定将很多银行归到,国家银行的行列中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

And then linked to the glycerol instead of a third fatty acid chain is a water soluble molecule, like a salt.

但连到甘油上的第三个基团不是脂肪酸链,而是一种水溶性的分子,像盐一样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

So, let's try another example here, and let's try a case now where instead of dealing with a neutral molecule we have an ion, so we have c n minus.

那么，让我们来试一下另外一个例子，这次不是一个中性原子,而是一个离子，氰离子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

PROFESSOR 2: I just want to maybe mention that in some of the reading, you'll see terms like object equality and value equality, instead of shallow equality and deep equality.

教授2：我就是想提醒下,大家阅读的时候请注意，你们会看到对象相等和值相等,而不是浅意义相等和深意义相等，教授：好，那么，这个对象。

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

Even more dangerously, from the standpoint of anybody who likes poetry, he talks instead of "statement," meaning science, and "pseudo-statement," meaning poetry.

更危险的是，在任何一个热爱诗歌的人看来，他转用“陈述“指代科学，用“伪陈述“指代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

And, you can see that fluorine, instead of four, it's about 4.19. But, it's as you would expect.

看到课本，不是，而是4。19，但是，如你们所想。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now,airlines will have to check the no-fly list within two hours of being told of additions, instead of twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

So instead of just studying pathologies whether it's in physical health or psychological health, we should also study the origin of health.

也就是说除了研究病理学,无论是生理健康，还是心理健康，还需要研究健康的起源。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

At the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, instead of chairs, they can sit on saddles as if riding a horse.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

In 1717 in Paris, Lindsey Hughes reports, he went to a private house instead of the Louvre palace.

林赛·休斯曾写道,彼得大帝1717年去巴黎时,他没有住在卢浮宫而是住在一所私宅里

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

I'm just doing it with a series of switches instead of a fingerboard, which we obviously don't have-- Okay. That's fine. That's great.

只是我用的是阀键,代替圆号上很明显没有的指板,好的,很棒

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选