편입영어 · rather than 대조 범위

A conservation officer proposed repairing the existing windows rather than replacing them with standard modern units. Both options could reduce heat loss, but replacement would remove irregular glass that recorded the building's earlier alterations. Repair was more expensive in the short term and required specialist labour. The officer did not deny those costs; she argued that the comparison should include the historical information lost under replacement. The committee eventually commissioned a repair trial on one floor before choosing a method for the whole building. Its decision preserved the possibility of learning from the trial rather than treating the initial cost estimate as the final answer.

A conservation officer proposed repairing the existing windows rather than replacing them with standard modern units. Both options could reduce heat loss, but replacement would remove irregular glass that recorded the building's earlier alterations. Repair was more expensive in the short term and required specialist labour. The officer did not deny those costs; she argued that the comparison should include the historical information lost under replacement. The committee eventually commissioned a repair trial on one floor before choosing a method for the whole building. Its decision preserved the possibility of learning from the trial rather than treating the initial cost estimate as the final answer.

The coastal laboratory needs a technician who can calibrate instruments rather than one who merely records their readings. Its existing staff can collect data, but recent discrepancies arose because instruments were set to different reference standards. The new technician will work with those staff, not replace them. In the revised plan, accurate measurement depends on both collecting a reading and knowing how it was produced. The distinction is therefore between two kinds of expertise within a shared task, rather than between useful employees and employees whose work has no value.

The committee preferred (A) ______ the sensors rather than (B) ______ the figures after collection. Adjusting each result separately would have concealed a difference in the reference settings. Once the sensors had been calibrated against the same standard, their readings could be compared without that additional correction. The technician still recorded the original values so that later reviewers could reconstruct the procedure.