| 1. | He insisted on staying rather than go .
他坚持要留下来，而不愿意去。 |
| 2. | I would rather walk than take a bus .
我愿意走路而不愿意坐公共汽车。 |
| 3. | He committed suicide rather than sell himself to the enemy .
他宁可自杀而不愿卖身投靠敌人。 |
| 4. | Most people opt for buying their own homes rather than renting them .
大多数人愿意买房子而不愿意租房子。 |
| 5. | Israel preferred to be raped than to make a decision of its own accord .
以色列宁愿接受强迫而不愿自行决定。 |
| 6. | We should in fact have preferred her activity to the vague menace she embodied .
事实上，我们宁愿它出来活动，而不愿受它含有的那种隐晦的威胁。 |
| 7. | Engineers usually prefer to express the function as graphs rather than in algebraic form .
工程师通常喜欢把这些函数用图线来表示，而不愿意写成代数形式。 |
| 8. | He was more interested in states of mind than in "puerile superstitions, gothic castles, and chimeras. "
他乐于描写心情，而不愿意描写“无聊的迷信，尖拱式的堡垒和妖魔鬼怪。” |
| 9. | People go to craft fairs rather than shopping at stores because they look for things that are different and original .
人们宁愿去交易会而不愿到商店去，因为他们想买到多种多样别致新颖的东西。 |
| 10. | They preferred to stay with their property under the japanese rather than take their chances on freedom with their countrymen .
他们宁愿在日本人的统治下守着他们的财产，而不愿与他们的同胞一起争取自由。 |
