I would rather pay the individuals than let the money go to the State by default.

我宁可把钱付给个人，也不会毫无选择就把钱交给国家。

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Airlines would prefer to update rather than retrain crews.

航空公司宁愿增添新机组人员而不愿对老的机组人员进行再培训。

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He would be moved sideways, rather than demoted.

他会被平级调动，而非被降职。

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But one of them would make war rather than let the nation live.

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He would also regard the peculiar American practice of elections rather than the Greek practice of appointing political offices by lot.

他也将关注,奇怪的美式选举方式,那有别于透过抽签决定的,希腊式指派政治官位模式。

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Rather than trying to pursue those questions--, trying to work out the details of these views would be complicated as well.

我们不去研究这些问题，尝试分析细节,这些观点的方方面面是非常复杂的。

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Obama would rather play golf than govern, would rather campaign than accept an urgent request to meet with the leader of an American ally, and instead of trying to work with those who disagree with him, he has dismissed them contemptuously and rudely.

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Audit partners would rather retrain than serve less prestigious clients but would rather retrain or serve less prestigious clients than relocate.

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Realizing that Argonaut-Madrone would rather liquidate than throw good money after bad, Energy eventually gave in.

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