宁可

It is better to err on the side of mercy.

宁可失之过于怜悯。

Better have no war for a thousand days than slacken your vigilance for one day.

宁可千日战,可一日备。

I would rather go moldy in fastuous than hold the love in grievance.

宁可高傲地发霉，要委屈的恋爱。

Better a glorious death than a shameful life.

宁可光明磊落地死,决卑鄙无耻地生。

I choose rather to hesitate my opinion than to assert it roundly.

我宁可犹疑地表示我的意见 直率地断言这件事。

He had rather be damned with Plato than saved with those who anathematized him.

他宁可让自己的灵魂与柏拉图一道被入地狱, 也和谴责他的人们一起升入天国。

He was so vain and reckless that he would break a friendship, rather than not break a jest.

他是如此虚, 宁可和人翻脸, 有笑话却能说。

It's much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion, and unchecked desire.

宁可在没有哀伤和恐惧的情况下饿死，也要过富裕的生活却充满烦恼、恐惧、猜忌、以及无法控制的欲望。

Say your boss wants a page to have a zappy marketing title you'd rather not have, because it doesn't exactly describe what's on the page, and pushes your most important keyword to the second heading.

比如，你老板希望一个页面能有个吸引人的销售标题，你宁可要，因为，它能完全地描述这个页面上的内容，且这会将你认为最重要的关键词要放在第二个标题内。