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基本解釋

It is not the technology itself that is addictive, but rather the specific application-of-choice.
使人上癮的并不是科技本身，而是對(duì)選擇的具體實(shí)際應(yīng)用。
For example, one frequently cited Web 2.0 application is BitTorrent, which is not a Web site but rather a peer-to-peer file-sharing application and network.
例如，一個(gè)經(jīng)常被提及的 Web 2.0 應(yīng)用程序是 BitTorrent，它不是 Web 站點(diǎn)而是一個(gè)對(duì)等文件共享應(yīng)用程序和網(wǎng)絡(luò)。
New media is not an information-pro- ducing mode, but rather an organizing-and-structuring activity through its medium and supports, re- structuring the productive relationship of society.
新媒體不僅僅是一種信息生產(chǎn)方式，更是圍繞著它所依托的介質(zhì)和載體所產(chǎn)生的組織性、結(jié)構(gòu)性的活動(dòng)，重新結(jié)構(gòu)社會(huì)性的生產(chǎn)關(guān)系。

I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al- Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.
Frost is not after "easy gold" but rather hard-earned wages.
弗羅斯特不追尋這些輕易得來的金錢而是實(shí)在地掙錢。
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but rather, why is this tiny subset of mental life-- " why is this conscious?
而應(yīng)該是“為什么心理活動(dòng)的一小部分-,為什么這一小部分是有意識(shí)的？
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This means not checking performance day-by-day, month-by-month, quarter-by-quarter, but rather with a long-term focus.
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Finally, Hopfield neural network algorithm sometimes recall a stored memory pattern mode is not any one model, but rather fall into a pseudo-state.
最后針對(duì)有時(shí)候Hopfield神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)算法回想出的模式不是存儲(chǔ)記憶模式中任何一個(gè)模式,而是落入一個(gè)“偽狀態(tài)”。