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Euodia

55. A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

(A)  had elected early retirement rather than face

(B)  had elected early retirement instead of facing

(C)  have elected retiring early instead of facing

(D)  have elected to retire early rather than facing

(E)   have elected to retire early rather than face

rather than 和 instead of有什么区别呢，我觉得从意思上似乎是可以互相替换的，句子变化不大………………呵呵

谢谢

likui

rather than和instead of的区别在于，rather than是优选结构，百试不爽。

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Euodia

是这样阿～～呵呵，谢谢

sensornet

我感觉, "than" in  "rather than" 是连词，所以后加句子，句子可以有省略。单 instead of是介词短语，后面的内容有严格的受限于主句的形式。

duxin

以下是引用sensornet在2005-5-9 6:34:00的发言：

我感觉, "than" in  "rather than" 是连词，所以后加句子，句子可以有省略。单 instead of是介词短语，后面的内容有严格的受限于主句的形式。

请问“后面的内容有严格的受限于主句的形式”如何详细解释呢，instead of 一般跟什么呢？

peajack

我是从意思上分的：

instead of  prep 强调代替（计划的，原有的，习惯的。。。。）

Let's play cards instead of wathing tv.

rather than  prep 强调比较(不是。。 ，不愿。。，不想。。。）

I think i will have a cold drink rather than coffee。

duxin

谢谢楼上

julia_ggw

好像大全里所有的题，凡是出现了in stead of和rather than的，总是选rather than。

至少我还没碰到过，xixi。不过本题里面ETS的解释里面并没有说这两个有什么不同。

哪位xdjm有没有碰到过相反的例子啊？

yidiyuehan

请问这道题目答案是什么？

好像所有rather than 的答案都是前后不平行的啊。

道阻且长

所以这道题的答案是选E嘛