insteadとrather
副詞「instead」と「rather*」は同様の意味を持つ場合がありますが、一般的に互換性はありません。以下に「instead」と「rather」、それぞれの語の定義と典型的な用法を例示します。
*「rather」はここで扱う以外にもいくつかの意味を持っていますので、ご注意ください。
instead: の代わりに、そうせずに。
(1) The doctor told the patient to move his left hand, but he moved his right hand instead.
(2) Instead of oscillating, this function diverges monotonically.
(3) To reduce cost, we used brass instead of platinum.
rather: よりもむしろ、というよりは、ではなく、むしろ。
(4) This result does not contradict the previous results. Rather, it demonstrates that there are situations to which the existing theories simply do not apply.
(5) Rather than give up now, we should redouble our efforts.
(6) This is not an established result. Rather, it is a tentative conclusion that is apparently inconsistent with at least one experimental result.