You can picture a swap: there were two options on the table, you push one aside and the other steps into the empty spot it left. 'Instead' marks that replacement — B takes the place A would have had.
可以想成一個「換位」的畫面：本來桌上有兩個選項，你把其中一個推到一邊，另一個就走進它剛空出來的位置。instead 標記的就是這個「頂替」的動作——B 站到了原本屬於 A 的那個位子上。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insteadadv/ɪnˈstɛd/
- 1
In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.
- I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.
- ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。