rather-instead

I mean, there are so many other things I'd rather do instead, and so I just don't like it.

我的意思是，我宁愿做很多其他的事情，所以我就是不喜欢它。

Some parents would rather their children rent houses outside the school instead of living a dorm.

有些家长宁愿自己的孩子出去租房住，也不想他们住在学校的寝室里。

Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.

相反，南方的奴隶主误认为9世纪30年代的废奴主义观点是主流，而不是北方边缘的公众意见，于是他们普遍谴责北方人反对奴隶制。