双语例句
用作介词(prep.)
- I prefer to be called a fool rather than fight.
我宁可被叫作傻瓜也不要打架。 - He resigned rather than stifle his conscience.
他宁可辞职也不违背自己的良知。
权威例句
Thief had rather eclectic taste"HAD RATHER GO"AND LIKE, OR SEEMINGLY LIKE, IDIOMSSHAKSPEARIANA: "I HAD RATHER LIE IN THE WOOLLEN""Then some had rather it were she than I": sexing the textual body"I Had Rather Had Eleven Die Nobly for their Country": A Study of CoriolanusReview of Murphy, Kim, I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil War"Ordinary North-Carolinese,""I Had Rather Stay than to Go with You""I had rather to adopt a child than get it": Mythical Lost Children in Caryl Phillips's The 'Nature of Blood'"I had rather he should be a blockhead than an atheist":the undermining of clerical guidance in the eighteenth-century novelBlack Giles, the poacher : with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work : in two parts.
