or rather 中文意思是什麼

or rather 解釋
更精確地說,倒不如說
  • or : or2,〈古、詩〉在…之前,比…更早〈普通用or ever, or e'er〉。n. 【徽章】黑金色,黑色。
  • rather : adv 1 〈與動詞連用〉寧願,寧可,毋寧。2 稍微,有點;相當,頗;比較地說。 ★在形容詞+名詞的結構中...
  1. Or rather, he was one of a huge battery of lawyers, all of whose names were on the door of the suite of offices in the elegant building in beverly hills.

    更確切地說,他是一大群律師中的一個,他們這些人的名字,都寫在比弗萊山的那幢漂亮的建築物中,事務所那套房子的門上。
  2. She capitulated, or rather marched our with the honours of war

    她投降了,或者更確切地說,她體面地撤退了。
  3. He descended, or rather seemed to descend, several steps, inhaling the fresh and balmy air, like that which may be supposed to reign around the grotto of circe, formed from such perfumes as set the mind a dreaming, and such fires as burn the very senses ; and he saw again all he had seen before his sleep, from sinbad, his singular host, to ali, the mute attendant ; then all seemed to fade away and become confused before his eyes, like the last shadows of the magic lantern before it is extinguished, and he was again in the chamber of statues, lighted only by one of those pale and antique lamps which watch in the dead of the night over the sleep of pleasure

    他向下走了幾步,或說得更確切些,是覺得向下走了幾步,一邊走,一邊吸著清新芳香的空氣,好似到了那香得令人心醉暖得令人神迷的塞茜的魔窟里一樣,他又看到了睡覺以前所見的一切,從辛巴德他那古怪的東道主,到阿里那啞巴奴僕。然後一切似乎都在他的眼前漸漸地逝去了,漸漸地模糊了,象一盞昏黃的古色古香的油燈,只有這盞燈在夜的死一般的靜寂里守護著人們的睡眠或安寧。
  4. Like many of his fellow, colonists mr. luce was a high or rather a deep conservative.

    像他一樣的移民中,盧斯先生是許多偏激的或者不如說是頑固的保守分子中的一個。
  5. He had inherited an organization, or rather a congeries of organizations.

    他繼承了一個組織,或者不如說一大堆組織。
  6. Yet the dignity of the girl, the strange tenderness in her voice, combined to affect his nobler impulses - or rather those that he had left in him after ten years of endeavour to graft technical belief on actual scepticism. the man and the ecclesiastic fought within him, and the victory fell to the man

    可是他一看到那個女孩子的莊重神情,一聽到她說話中的奇特的柔和,他心中的高貴感情就被激發出來,或者說在他為了把機械的信仰嫁接到實際的懷疑主義之上而進行了數十年努力以後,他身上殘留的一點兒感情又被激發出來了。
  7. It had occurred to her to look once more into the queer gaunt room which had been clare s den, or rather eyrie, for so long, and climbing the ladder she stood at the open door of the apartment, regarding and pondering

    她突然想起來再去把那個古怪的房間搜查一遍,長期以來,這個房間一直是克萊爾的獸穴,或者不如說是鳥巢她爬上樓梯,站在門開著的房間門口,觀察著思考著。
  8. He drew, or rather dragged off, his ferocious helpmate.

    他把他那怒氣沖沖的助手拉開了,實際上是使勁拖開的。
  9. A small river, or rather a mountain torrent, called the talla, breaks down the glen with great fury, dashing successively over a number of small cascades.

    一條小河,勿寧說是條山澗,名為塔拉,怒沖沖地奔下山谷,化為幾疊瀑布。
  10. The fact is, i was a trifle beside myself ; or rather out of myself, as the french would say : i was conscious that a moment s mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths

    我確實有點兒難以自制,或者如法國人所說,失常了。我意識到,因為一時的反抗,會不得不遭受古怪離奇的懲罰。於是,像其他造反的奴隸一樣,我橫下一條心,決計不顧一切了。
  11. Statues and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle - chains of a continuous immaturity

    法則、公理這類與其說利用還不如說誤用其天賦的機械工具,是持久不成熟狀態的腳鐐。
  12. She imputed the whole to the extravagance or rather ebullient of his passion.

    她把這一切全歸咎於他情感的豐富,不能自持。
  13. I went to see noah this morning, or rather tried to see him.

    今天上午我去看望諾亞,或者說我試圖看望他。
  14. On a sudden she stepped, or rather bounded, with outstretched arms, towards the table

    突然,她伸著兩臂向那張桌子跳了一步。
  15. The nervous excitement of which we speak pursued valentine even in her sleep, or rather in that state of somnolence which succeeded her waking hours ; it was then, in the silence of night, in the dim light shed from the alabaster lamp on the chimney - piece, that she saw the shadows pass and repass which hover over the bed of sickness, and fan the fever with their trembling wings

    瓦朗蒂娜睡著的時候更準確地說是在她醒來后的那種半醒半睡狀態中她仍然處于亢奮狀態那時,夜深人靜,壁爐架上那盞乳白色燈罩射出了昏暗的光線,在這寂靜和昏暗中,她看見那些影子在病床上空一一走過,用它們顫抖的翅膀煽動寒熱。
  16. Good - natured, confiding, and forgiving as i had been, i became revengeful, cunning, and wicked, or rather, immovable as fate. then i launched out into the path that was opened to me

    我的本性雖然善良坦率和寬大,但我卻能變成了狡猾奸詐有仇必報,或說得更確切一些,變得象命運一樣的冷酷無情。
  17. But it was all a dream ; or rather it was like the simulacrum of reality. the oak - leaves were to her like oak - leaves seen ruffling in a mirror, she herself was a figure somebody had read about, picking primroses that were only shadows or memories, or words

    橡樹的葉子,在她看來,彷彿是鏡子里搖動著的葉子,她自己是書本里的人物,采著蓮馨花,而這些花兒也不過是些影子,或是記憶,或是一些宇。
  18. If he ever approached intoxication - or rather that ruddy warmth and comfortableness which precedes the more sloven state - it was when individuals such as these were gathered about him, when he was one of a circle of chatting celebrities

    如果他也曾差點喝醉過-或者說處于醉酒失態前臉紅發熱渾身舒坦的狀態,那就是當他置身於這些人之中,當他也是閑談的名流中的一份子。
  19. Dick thompson was shot last night, or rather in the small hours

    迪克?湯普森昨夜,確切地說,今日凌晨被槍殺了。
  20. This man was dressed in a greatcoat, or rather a surtout, a little worse for the journey, but which exhibited the ribbon of the legion of honor still fresh and brilliant, a decoration which also ornamented the under coat. he might be recognized, not only by these signs, but also from the accent with which he spoke to the postilion, as a frenchman

    這人穿著一件外套,確切地說,是一件緊身長外套,穿了這種衣服旅行是不十分舒服的,但它卻把鮮明燦爛的榮譽團軍官的緞帶顯示出來,他外套下面的上裝上佩著一枚勛章,這兩個標志以及他對車夫講話時的口音都可以看出他是一個法國人。
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