1·The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.
墙面不是白的，而是灰不溜秋的。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·He was rather a nervous man.
他是个相当神经质的人。
3·For three-year-olds, for reasons that are still in need of clarification, no improvement—rather a slight drop in performance resulted from the change.
对于三岁的孩子来说，由于一些原因，他们的成绩并没有得到改善，只是因为改变而略有下降。
4·Generating enough light could be prohibitively expensive, unless cheap, renewable energy is available, and this appears to be rather a future aspiration than a likelihood for the near future.
除非有廉价可再生能源，否则制造足够光的成本可能会高得令人望而却步，而这似乎只是未来的愿望而非近期能实现的。
5·It was rather a difficult question.
这真是个难题。
—— 《牛津词典》
6·It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
从传统意义上来说，这并不是一个旅馆，而是变成了旅馆的整个村庄。
—— 《牛津词典》
7·Hypnosis is not a state of sleep: It is rather a modified state of consciousness.
催眠状态不是一种睡眠的状态，而是一种被改变的意识状态。
8·Won't they think us rather a handful?
他们会不会觉得我们太多人了？
9·Yorkshire people seemed strange, and Martha was always rather a puzzle to her.
约克郡的人似乎很奇怪，玛莎对她来说总是个谜。
10·Clearly, however, our actions demonstrate not a bias in favor of liberal views but rather a commitment to a balanced presentation of diverse opinions.
然而，很明显，我们的行动显示的不是对自由主义观点的偏爱，而是对平衡表达不同观点的承诺。