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基本解释

Scientists tend to be conflicted about the science behind it, or rather the lack thereof.
科学家们趋向认为它的背后的科学是相互冲突的，或者宁愿是缺乏理论依据的。
To be like God is to be without time, or rather in time with no concern for time, free of the passions and troubles of the soul, experiencing something like calm in the face of things and of oneself.
像神一样，就是要没有时间或身在时间之中而不必考虑它，就是要远离灵魂的种种热情和麻烦，就是要在自我和事物面前体会到什么是冷静。
I do not know what tramps would do without tea, or rather the stuff they miscall tea.
我不知道如果没有这杯茶——或者说这杯他们称之为茶的东西——流浪汉们会怎么样。

(JANIS JOPLIN - "BALL AND CHAIN") The music ended on Sunday night or,rather,the early hours of Monday, August eighteenth.
Well,you're in some battle,or rather, your troop is in some battle, and people are being killed left and right.
比如你在战场上，或者说你的军队在战场上，周围的人被杀死。
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It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.
一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。
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Pretty slim margins for dishing out meat loaf and Jell-O (or rather, sesame-crusted tuna).
FORBES: At your service