If you have a bone to pick with a person, tell it to his face instead of saying things behind his back.
如果你们之间有问题,应该当面告诉他,不要在背后说他。
Will you go to the party instead of me?
你会代替我去派对吗?
Instead of fewer accidents there are more.
事故沒減少而增加。
You might as well read a novel instead of staring at the ceiling.
望着天花板发呆,还不如读一读小说。
He went fishing instead of playing tennis.
他去钓鱼了,而没去打网球。
Don't change sentences that are correct. You can, instead, submit natural-sounding alternative translations.
请勿更改没有错误的句子。请添加一个新的更自然的翻译。
I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.
Instead of preparing a dinner by candlelight, she put her boyfriend up for auction on eBay.
她没有准备烛光晚餐,而是把她的男友放到Ebay上拍卖。
Instead of eating real food, we just ate junk food all day.
我們整天吃的都是雜七雜八的零嘴,並沒有甚麼正規的食物下過肚。
Tom wanted to stay home and relax instead of hiking with his children.
汤姆想待在家休息而不是和他的孩子们出去远足。
Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.
相反,他们通过舌头来侦测声音,并通过头骨内的感觉器官来感受震动。
Frankly speaking, I actually wanted to stay at home, instead of going out.
老實說,我其實想留在家中,不想出外的。
Don't fear being put upon. Fear instead being unable to help.
不怕被人利用,就怕你沒用。
Instead of him, my brother was arrested.
我的兄弟被捕了而不是他。
Instead of just the marketing department completing all their work objectives is not as effective as all the departments working together and mutually realising all the objectives.