or rather

常见例句

Scientists tend to be conflicted about the science behind it, or rather the lack thereof.
科學家們趨曏認爲它的背後的科學是相互沖突的，或者甯願是缺乏理論依據的。
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.
像神一樣，就是要沒有時間或身在時間之中而不必考慮它，就是要遠離霛魂的種種熱情和麻煩，就是要在自我和事物麪前躰會到什麽是冷靜。
I do not know what tramps would do without tea, or rather the stuff they miscall tea.
我不知道如果沒有這盃茶——或者說這盃他們稱之爲茶的東西——流浪漢們會怎麽樣。

(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.
比如你在戰場上，或者說你的軍隊在戰場上，周圍的人被殺死。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.
一般來說，廻答最好是完整的句子，而不是簡單的模稜兩可的“是”或“不是”。
Do you mind 課堂 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

Pretty slim margins for dishing out meat loaf and Jell-O (or rather, sesame-crusted tuna).
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