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instead adv.代替,頂替。 come another day ...

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Instead of writing her shorthand by hand, she could use a keyboard machine . 她可以不用手而使用一種帶鍵盤的機器進行速記。

In fact, i had to simply shirk argument and do the diplomatic instead . 事實上,我還就得避免抬杠,而用點兒外交家的手腕。

He met instead a look of such mild benignity that he was left baffled . 他看到他的神色竟如此溫和,寬厚使他感到困惑莫解。

That theory is concerned with rational functions instead of just polynomials . 該理論所研究的是有理函數而不僅是多次式。

He now discovers that they have been going south instead of north . 他這時才明白過來,原來他們一直向南而不是向北航行。

I accidentally learned to write round hand instead of ladies-hand . 我不知不覺地學成了寫圓體字,不會寫女人格式的字體。

Instead of making progress , my work actually seems to be going backwards . 我的工作不但沒有進步,實際上像是在倒退。

You and i keep on attending to trifles instead of what's important . 咱們兩個人只管注意些小事情就算了,不管大事情。

It was time to advertise our cause instead of our cars . 當時的當務之急是我們的事業可不是為我們的汽車進行廣告宣傳。

It has rounded shoulders inside instead of the sharp orifice-like edge . 在內部作成圓形凸肩以代替銳緣孔板狀的側面。

Making the earth say beans instead of grassthis was my daily work . 讓大地長豆子而不長雜草,這就是我的日常工作。

One of his eccentricities is sleeping under the bed instead of on it . 他的怪僻之一是睡覺睡在床底下而不睡在床上。

A pasty yellow juice instead of a clear one can be squeezed from strobil . 球果壓出的是黃色的而不是澄清的漿液。

You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead of thanking him . 你不但不謝他,還埋怨他,真不知好歹。

Instead of admitting his mistakes , he shifted the blame onto others . 他不但沒有承認錯誤,還派別人的不是。

I wanted to speak to the manager but i got his secretary instead . 我想找經理說話,可是接電話的是他的秘書。

Instead of raising it, thought he, they have lowered it . 他們不是把它扛上來的,他想,而是把它推下來的。

Instead of repudiating what he had done, he gloried in it . 他不但沒有否定自己做過的事,反而引以為榮。

Instead we can use a special typewriter called a teletype . 于是我們改用一種專用打字機,即電傳打字機。