instead

美音：[ɪn'sted] 英音：[ɪn'sted]

简单释义：

adv.代替；反而；顶替；却

网络相反；改为；替代

完整释义：

adv.

1.取而代之,相反,然而
2.不是…而是
3.代替,顶替
4.不料
5.改
6.这样,因此

例句：

Mr Buttel said he and his colleagues had bought a new printer and modified it to run on food colouring instead of ink.
巴特尔说，他和同事们买了一台新印刷机，加以改造，让它可以用食用色素替代印刷油墨印刷。
The company, best known for a plan to develop a mass-market electric car, has instead seen sales of its gasoline-powered cars surge.
虽然比亚迪因为大规模推出电动汽车的计划而名声大振，不过销量大增的却是其生产的普通汽油驱动型轿车。
Instead, she said, minor offenders might be given the option of mandatory volunteer work in a nursery or farm instead of a jail sentence.
所以，她说，未成年人受刑人应该给予选择，以强制性在托儿所或农场的义务工作替代监禁。
Chances are by the end of the day, you'll be so tired that you'll leave it to the next day instead.
把机会留到一天的末尾，但那时你已经感觉累了，然后决定把它留到第二天再做。
So, what kind of an impact is all that time spent fraternizing over technology instead of in person having on today's youth?
那么，把所有的时间都花在这些网站上而不是人的上面将会对现在的青少年产生什么样的影响？
"I would love it if my iPhone was thinner and lighter, and the battery lasted a month or even a week instead of a day, " says Bielawski.
“我希望我的iPhone更薄更轻，电池可以维持一周，甚至一个月，而不是一天，”Bielawski说道。
Instead, it ate up millions of his own dollars and was sold off two years later.
恰恰相反的是，这家公司吞噬了他数百万美元资产，两年后惨遭抛售。
Instead it is forced to stop against the bottom of the other floats, and then slide to the side just like before.
这样，它会被强制停止到另一个浮动的底部，然后向之前那样进行滑行。

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