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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建议查一下 rather than 相关例句用法

不是介系词ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=rather+than

Rather than放句首的时候比较特别，可以接动名词(像介系词)或不带to的不定词。http://goo.gl/faOCru

http://tinyurl.com/jsqrrhd -> 1 ...注意看说明（有特定的表达意思) 此处的 infinitive form of verb 指的是(例句的)bare infinitive(没有to的...)。台湾一般是讲"原形动词" 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远) Note:这只是个"方便"，我不是在说这已经是个证实过的文法来源 (我自己的话是直接懂整体意思(我没有经过这步骤)，"回头"来看的话，这种过渡性质的辅助(记忆/了解法？)倒也是可行)

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