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Or, Or Else, Else 的用法

Or, Or Else, Else 的用法

一、or 作“或者”讲,连接两个同等成分

  1. Matter is anything like air, water or metals. 物质是像空气、水或金属之类的任何东西。
  2. Computers themselves don't know when to add, or subtract, or compare, or request input. 计算机本身不知道何时加、减、比较或要求输入。

二、or 作“即”、“就是”讲,引出同位语,表示 or 后面和前面是同一成分、同一内容或同一人、物(参阅第 146 节三和八)

三、用 "either… or…" 或者 "either… or else…”来表示“不是……(否则)便是……”之意

  1. Either you or I am about to go to Beijing. 不是你便是我要马上去北京。(注意用 am, 不用 are.)
  2. I’ll come and have lunch with you either to day or tomorrow. 我将回来和你一起吃午饭:不是今天便是明天。
  3. When a pure substance undergoes a chemical change, it either combines with other substances to produce a product of greater weight, or(else)it decomposes into two or more substances. 当一种纯物质经受化学变化时,它不是跟其它物质化合成重量较大的产物,(否则)便是分解为两种或更多种的物质。

四、or else, 单个 or 或单个 else 作“否则”讲

  1. Be quick or else (= otherwise) you’ll be late. 快,否则就要迟到了。
  2. Dress warmly or else (=if not) you’ll catch cold. 穿暖和些,否则(或不然话)你会感冒的。
  3. Drink this; else you will fall ill. 喝了它,否则你会病倒的。
  4. Do what as you are told, or else…. 按别人告诉你的做,否则…。(or else 后的词语省略,含威胁语气。)

五、"…or…" 作“不论…”讲,表示让步意义

  1. Yes or no, you must answer this question. 不论是与否,你总得回答这个问题。
  2. Fine or rainy (或 Rain or shine), we must go to the plant. 不论晴雨,我们一定去工厂。

六、和 or 连用的其它常见短语

例如:or rather 更确切地说,three kilometers or so 三公里左右,sooner or later 迟早,speak English more or lass 或多或少地讲英语,thirty kilometers more or less 30 公里左右 (=more or lass 30 kilometers), or vice versa 或者反过来(也是这样)等

七、副词 else 作“其他或其它”、“别的”讲,常用于疑问词、不定代词及不定副词的后面,翻译时一般加“(另外)还”、“另有”、“再有”等词

  1. Who else will come here?(另外)还有谁将到这里来?
  2. what else are you going to do? 你还准备做什么?
  3. Where else did Prof. Lu go? 卢教授还去了什么地方?
  4. Which else of you didn't hand in the homework? 你们中间还有哪一个没有交作业?
  5. When else will James come and see me? 詹姆士还将在什么时候来看我?
  6. Whose else could this pen be? 这支钢笔还能是谁的呢?
  7. How else could I have conducted the research? 我那时还能怎样进行这项研究呢?
  8. Maybe something else happened to her yesterday. 也许昨天她还发生了某件事。
  9. He must have told this to someone (或 somebody) else. 他准是把这件事告诉了另外某个人。
  10. It was a purely family matter, and concerned no one else. 这纯粹是家里的事,和任何外人无关。
  11. Everyone (或 Everybody) else but you has attended the welcome meeting. 除了你以外,所有其他人都参加欢迎会了。
  12. Nobody else but him could ever do such a thing. 除了他以外,就再没有人能够做这样的事。
  13. I ought to put it before all else. 我应该把它放在所有其它东西前面。
  14. He has not anything else (=nothing else) to say. 他再没有什么可说了。
  15. There is nowhere else(=not anywhere else)for me to go. 我无其它地方可去。
  16. I am going to take you somewhere else. 我打算带你去另外一个地方。

注:elsewheresomewhere else 含义相同。例如:Those talk backs were found elsewhere (= some where else). 那些对讲机是在别处发现的。


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