小结Instead of与instead 在GMAT中的区别

gmat928

自己关于Instead of与instead 的一点小总结，供大家参考

先看下面这两句话，表达的意思重心都是小毛更喜欢青菜。
小毛爱吃菜而不是（Instead of）肉。
小毛不爱吃肉；相反（Instead），他爱吃菜。
在GMAT中前一句要用Instead of后一句要用Instead。

即：一个句子使用Instead强调要做的是后面内容，使用Instead of强调要做的的是前面的内容（instead of的内容是实际上不会发生、不会做的，表达的是一种否定语气）。

简单说：Instead表达“而是要”，Instead of表达“而不是”

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)

Instead
反而，却
强调在Instead后，Instead的内容是句子重心真正要做的，这部分正式句子强调的重心。

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.

lpo

好贴，先来顶一下

wryqq

原来如此~

abjure

好帖，  楼主有没有GMAT的题可以印证下。

manna

楼主，谢谢你！这个问题我也想过，可是没有你分析得这么透彻。

gmat928

好帖，  楼主有没有GMAT的题可以印证下。

-- by 会员 abjure (2010/4/16 0:17:10)

例句里面很多都是GMAT原题

超超琪琪格

太精辟了！

smilecrystal

?    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.
?    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.

smilecrystal

instead       adv
instead of   prep

aaron22

很精辟 受益匪浅