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.
例文
1. Instead of complaining about what 's wrong，be grateful for what 's right.
悪いことに文句を言わないで、良いことに感謝してください。
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2.He said they should turn their fire on the Conservative Party instead .
彼は彼らが銃口を回して保守党に発砲すべきだと言った。
3. Instead of moving at his usual stately pace,he was almost running.
彼はいつものように優雅に歩いていないで、ほとんど走ってきた。
4.He crossed out "Screenplay "and put "Written by " instead .
彼は「脚本家」の二文字を消し、「作者」に変えた。
5.Small pickling onions can be used instead of sliced ones.