instead of
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释义

（用…）代替…， （是…）而不是…， （用…）而不用…；

同近义词辨析

instead of, instead

instead of 是介词短语,放在句中 He watched TV instead of seeing a film.

instead 是副词,放在句首或句末,He didn't see a film. Instead he watched TV.

in place of, instead of

in place of指以甲到乙；

instead of除代替外有对乙否定的意味，有时译为不

more than, instead of, as well as, other than

more than多于，不仅仅

instead of而不是

as well as表并列，也，又

other than不同于，除了

双语例句

用作介词(prep.)

1. I made this cake specially, with brown sugar instead of white.
   我特别地以红糖代替白糖做了这个蛋糕。
2. I gave him advice instead of money.
   我给了他忠告，而不是钱。
3. The economy is shrinking instead of growing.
   经济正在萎缩而不是在增长中。
4. There is a growing tendency for people to work at home instead of in offices.
   人们在家里而不是在办公室里工作的趋势日益增长。

权威例句

Band theory and Mott insulators: Hubbard U instead of Stoner I
Symbolic model checking using SAT procedures instead of BDDs
A mammalian gene with introns instead of exons generating stable RNA products
A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.
Antibiotics as intermicrobial signaling agents instead of weapons
The biorefinery concept: using biomass instead of oil for producing energy and chemicals.
Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate
FastTree: computing large minimum evolution trees with profiles instead of a distance matrix.
Wind power implementation: The nature of public attitudes: Equity and fairness instead of ‘backyard motives’
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