Nurses should be separate to doctors, rather than merely subordinate.

护士应该与医生分开，而不仅仅是从属。

I want a job where there's achievement rather than merely activity.

我希望我的工作有所成就而不仅仅是有事做。

It is common sense, of course, to try to prevent infestation rather than merely treating it once it has arisen.

当然，防病胜于治病是常识。

To do so would require cutting some members' stakes in absolute terms, rather than merely freezing them as others expand.

要做到这一点，就需要削减一些成员国的绝对配额，而不是仅仅在其他成员国扩张时冻结它们。

It’s important to write these goals down, rather than merely think about them.

【merely】一定要把这些目标写下来，不要光在脑子里想想。

It would be better to target help to cities with high unemployment (rather than merely to poor regions that might be losing population).

最好是把财政用在那些高失业率城市的‘刀刃上’（而不仅仅限于是那些人口 不断外流的贫困地区）。

They want the Biden administration's reinvigorated trustbusters to break it up, rather than merely impose measures to promote good behaviour.

他们希望拜登政府重振旗鼓的破坏者能够打破它，而不是仅仅实施促进良好行为的措施。

And rather than merely changing the levels of certain neurotransmitters, studies have shown that antidepressants can actually help new neurons grow in certain parts of the brain.

研究表明，抗抑郁药实际上有助于新神经元在大脑的某些部位生长，而不仅仅是改变某些神经递质的水平。

The White House says it will cooperate with the investigators who seek to understand, if there was any intent into breaking the law rather than merely negligence.

白宫表示，将与调查人员合作，调查人员试图了解是否有任何意图违反法律，而不仅仅是疏忽。

It forced outside software developers to write programs specially for the Mac operating system, rather than merely writing generic software that could be ported to a variety of computers.

它迫使苹果公司以外的软件开发商们针对MaC的操作系统编写专门的程序，而不是编写一个通用的程序从而能安装到不同的电脑上。

And behind numerous new businesses created on a shoestring are former factory employees who have seen the rewards that come from running an assembly line rather than merely working on one.

早先的工厂员工发现，资产回报来自于流水线而不是流水线上的一个点，于是自己做起了小本生意。