adverb [方式副词] 颇，相当；宁愿，最好（would rather）；而不是；更确切地说；（用以使表达的语气婉转）有几分，有点儿；恰恰相反，而是
You use rather when you are correcting something that you have just said, especially when you are describing a particular situation after saying what it is not. (尤指修正上文时) 更确切地说
interjection [请求] <英，旧>当然，的确（表同意）
Sometimes the results may be rather startling. 有时结果可能相当惊人。
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- Lesson 52 A pretty carpet
- Lesson 81 Escape
- Lesson 14 A noble gangster
- Lesson 18 Electric currents in modern art
- Lesson 19 A very dear cat
- Lesson 47 Too high a price?
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- I rather think he was telling the truth. 我或多或少地相信他在说真话。
- Twenty million years ago, Idaho was not the arid place it is now. Rather, it was warm and damp, populated by dense primordial forest. 2000万年前，爱达荷州不像现在这样干旱。确切地说，它那时温暖潮湿，生长着茂密的原始森林。
- I grew up in rather unusual circumstances. 我在相当不寻常的环境中长大。
- The problem was psychological rather than physiological. 这是个心理而不是生理问题。
- The instructions were rather complicated. 这些说明相当复杂。
- If it's all the same to you, I'd rather work at home. 如果对你来说都一样，我宁愿在家工作。
- I'm afraid it's a rather long story. 我恐怕这是个相当长的故事。
- She made students think for themselves, rather than telling them what to think. 她让学生们自己思考，而不是告诉他们思考什么。