instead

英[ɪnˈsted]美[ɪnˈsted]

adv.替代，反而；

英语六级真题

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.

But, instead, the Chicago union seems to be using its political capital primarily to protect weak performers.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

Flexibility resulting from the use of digital devices benefits employers instead of employees.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

She decided to take lunch to work instead.

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

In their evolution, humans have learned to pay attention to the most urgent issues instead of long-term concerns.

Yet virtually no providers of goods or services rely on this alone, butuse paid advertising instead.

Instead of having a literal meaning, it docs something - conveying an attitude — just like the -ed ending conveys past tense rather than "meaning.

When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing," says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.

Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn't disappearing as quickly as some would argue - that it has instead shifted to immigrants

According to Ruth Milkman, American craftsmanship, instead of disappearing, is being taken up by immigrants.

The Three-Year Solution Hartwick College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, makes New York, makes this offer to well prepared students: earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four, and save about 543,000—the amount of one year's tuition and fees

Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking, the tenure system often stifles(压制)them: younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues for tenure, encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas

Instead of taking 30 credits a year, these students take 40.

But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are "undermatched": they could get into more elite, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them.

Instead of directly saying no to your boss, you should find out what is in your boss's mind

There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as "implicit bias", using a computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as "love" or "evil"—with photos of black or white faces.

Those who are thinking their time did reverse spending time socializing instead of working.

What does the woman suggest they do instead of paying the South Theater Company's travel expenses?

"I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road

All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road to calculus.

And instead of showing just the typical pair of eggs in a hummingbird nest, she painted four.

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

But it's said to no longer contain kola nut extract, relying instead on artificial imitations to achieve the flavour.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

Customers can bring shoes of any brand into an Adidas store to be shredded and turned into alternative fuels for energy creation instead of being burned as trash.

Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.

Frida Bengtsson from Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign said: "If the krill industry wants to show it’s a responsible player, then it should be voluntarily getting out of any area which is being proposed as an ocean sanctuary, and should instead

From now on, when someone asks you how your life is, try responding with words like "exciting" and "fun", instead of the culture norm that says "busy".

Instead of discarding their old worn-out jeans, customers bring them in to be renewed.

Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.

Instead, Hacker is pushing for more courses like the one he teaches at Queens College: Numeracy 101.

Instead, I dreamed of living in New York City and my parents obliged me with a visit to New York University's NYU campus.

Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught in several ways, especially if one is visual.

Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

Instead, they receive a fixed rate, which is typically about $825 for a standard four-hour vocal session.

Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals' external world.

It's likely you prefer to feel happy instead of sad or confident instead of insecure.

Now, imagine the same dinner, but instead of checking their phone, the person belches—loudly.

Now, instead of swimming upstream, we relax, sleep, watch movies, or listen to music.

Once you get out of there, you become that part, only you're using music instead of dialogue.

Researchers are already asking if motor vehicle use has reached its peak and will decline, but transport planners have yet to catch up with this trend, instead of laying new roads to tackle traffic jams.

So it's a welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.

So, instead of innovation for innovation's sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these point-in-time innovations to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyon

The dataset they used did not include economic data, so instead the researchers looked at whether the 2013-16 well-being decline was tracking economic indicators.

They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

Those involved in the clinical trails on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup.

Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends一not talking about work.

We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.

When psychologists and educators test for learning styles, they're trying to figure out whether these are inherent traits that affect how well students learn instead of just a preference.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

PREP-PHRASE

代替…;而不是…

If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.

例句

ADV

作为替代;反而;相反地

If you do not do something, but do something else instead, you do the second thing and not the first thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.

例句

英汉词典释义

adv.

代替; 顶替

代替；作为…的替换

反而，却

英英词典释义

Adverb

1. in place of, or as an alternative to;

2. on the contrary;