下面是具体例子： Instead of
(是…)而不是…
强调内容在Instead of前，Instead of的内容不是句子重心真正要做的，而是比照相对句子重心内容的附带对比内容。
例句：
Shall we have fish instead of meat today? 今天我们不吃肉吃鱼好吗?
Give me this instead of that. 给我这个, 不要那个。
Taking exercise every day makes him look younger instead of older. 每天锻炼身体使他看起来年轻而不显老。
We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson. 我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。
He has been playing all afternoon instead of getting on with his work. 他整个下午一直在玩, 没有继续工作。
With Massa’s departure, House Democrats need 216 votes, instead of 217, to pass health care legislation.
Cuomo, who is widely expected to run for governor this year, has called for putting the pension fund under the control of a board of trustees, instead of the comptroller.
''This 'restoration' has been done in a very unprofessional way,'' Schweizer said in an e-mail message sent to the AP. ''Too many stones had been changed, instead of restoring.
Most of Portugal’s 250,000 university students boycotted classes in a one-day strike to protest a law that requires them to contribute $330 a year toward the cost of higher education, instead of the $7 per year required previously.
Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity. (D-p72-8)
例句：
Mike doesn't study at all. Instead, he sits idle all day. 迈克根本不肯读书, 相反地, 他终日游手好闲。
According to some analysts, the gains in the stock market reflect growing confidence that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and instead come in for a "soft landing," followed by a gradual increase in business activity.
Marconi conceived of the radio as a tool for private conversation that could substitute for the telephone；instead, it has become precisely the opposite, a tool for communicating with a large, public audience.
Evolutionary psychology holds that the human mind is not a "blank slate" but instead comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed to solve specific problems human ancestors faced millions of years ago.
Gone are the sharp edges and jutting planes of styles from former eras; instead, designers of everything from cars to computer monitors have adopted a cornerless style of smooth surfaces and curves that is more ergonomic, conforming to the shape of the body rather than flaunting shape for its own sake.
Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, BEAM robots are not programmed to walk; instead they use brain like circuits called neural networks to learn to walk through trial and error.
Cash flows to stock and bond mutual funds have gained strength in the last two months, but fund managers have not been eager to invest the new money, instead preferring to raise the cash levels in their portfolios to the highest level in six months.作者: heywendy 时间: 2011-5-10 06:28
