instead

英 [?n'sted] 美[?n'st?d]

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instead 代替

in-,進(jìn)入，使，-st,站立，詞源同stand,stead.引申詞義替代位置的，代替。

instead: instead: [13] Instead is the English end of a chain of loan translations that goes back to Latin in locō (in loan translations, the individual components of a foreign word or expression are translated into their equivalents in the borrowing language, and then reassembled). The Latin phrase meant literally ‘in place (of)’, and this was translated into Old French as en lieu de.

Middle English rendered the French expression in turn as in stead of or in the stead of (stead ‘place’, now obsolete except in certain fixed compounds and expressions, comes ultimately from the same Indo-European source as stand, station, etc). It began to be written as one word towards the end of the 16th century.
=> stand, station, statue, stead
instead (adv.): 1590s, from Middle English ine stede (early 13c.; see stead); loan-translation of Latin in loco (French en lieu de). Still often two words until c. 1640.

1. Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.: 別抱怨不好的事，要對(duì)好的事心存感恩。

2. He said they should turn their fire on the Conservative Party instead.: 他說他們應(yīng)該掉轉(zhuǎn)槍口，向保守黨開火。

3. Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.: 他沒像平時(shí)那樣優(yōu)雅莊重地走著，而是幾乎跑了起來。

4. He crossed out "Screenplay" and put "Written by" instead.: 他劃掉了“編劇”二字，改為“作者”。

5. Small pickling onions can be used instead of sliced ones.: 小塊腌洋蔥可用來替代切片洋蔥。