rather than 之后通常跟不带的动词不定式。Rather than wait any more, I decided to go home by taxi . 我不想再等下去,决定坐出租车回家。(《牛津英语用法指南》)
rather than“而不是……”,接不定式时,可以带to或不带to。但rather than位于句首时,不定式通常不带 to(也可用动名词)。例如:
I decided to write rather than (to) telephone. 我决定写信,而不是打电话。
Rather than waste [wasting] your time doing it yourself, why don’t you call in a builder? 你为什么宁愿浪费时间自己去干而不去请一个包工的呢?
▲ rather than连接的并列成分除不定式外还可以是名词、代词、形容词、副词、介词短语、谓语、分句……等等。例如:
The teacher rather than the students is to blame. 应受责备的是老师而不是学生。
He was mad rather than brave. 与其说他勇敢不如说他发疯了。
He ran rather than walked. 他在跑而不是在走。
You bumped me rather than I bumped you. 是你撞了我,而不是我撞了你。
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