大家好，在新聞網頁看到的，講國籍的事情
The ministry also said that the number of people who became naturalized ROC
citizens last year dropped to 3,612, from 4,399 the previous year, mainly
because inter-racial marriages involving mostly foreign women marrying
Taiwanese men have declined in recent years.
Taiwan's move to step up interviews of inter-racial couples to deter bogus
marriages has been one reason for the decline. Strong economic growth in
developing countries has also led more women there to choose to stay in their
own country rather than marry Taiwanese men and move to Taiwan.

choose to V1 rather than (to) V2建議查一下 rather than 相關例句用法

不是介係詞ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=rather+than

Rather than放句首的時候比較特別，可以接動名詞(像介係詞)或不帶to的不定詞。http://goo.gl/faOCru

http://tinyurl.com/jsqrrhd -> 1 ...注意看說明（有特定的表達意思) 此處的 infinitive form of verb 指的是(例句的)bare infinitive(沒有to的...)。台灣一般是講"原形動詞" http://tinyurl.com/znc9bvl你可以自己想成那是"Rather than (chose to) continue ..."（所以你的想法倒是相差不遠) Note:這只是個"方便"，我不是在說這已經是個證實過的文法來源 (我自己的話是直接懂整體意思(我沒有經過這步驟)，"回頭"來看的話，這種過渡性質的輔助(記憶/了解法？)倒也是可行)

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