| 单词 | or |
| 释义 | or (əʳ , STRONG ɔːʳ ) 1. conjunction A1 You use or to link two or more alternatives. 'Tea or coffee?' John asked. Spread the inside of the loaf with olive paste or pesto sauce for extra flavour. He said he would try to write or call as soon as he reached the Canary Islands. Students are asked to take another course in English, or science, or mathematics. 2. conjunction A2 You use or to give another alternative, when the first alternative is introduced by 'either' or 'whether'. Items like bread, milk and meat were either unavailable or obtained only on the black market. Either you can talk to him, or I will. I don't know whether people will buy it or not. I am not sure whether I was knocked over by the blast or whether I just fell. The bathroom has taken a lot longer to get right than either Elaine or Dennis had envisaged. 3. conjunction B1 You use or between two numbers to indicate that you are giving an approximate amount. Everyone benefited from limiting their intake of tea to just three or four cups a day. When I was nine or ten someone explained to me that when you are grown up you have to work. Normally he asked questions, and had a humorous remark or two. 4. conjunction B2 You use or to introduce a comment which corrects or modifies what you have just said. The man was a fool, he thought, or at least incompetent. There was nothing more he wanted, or so he thought. That was sporting of him. Or should I say cowardly. She was aware of tension between them. Or had it been there from the beginning? 5. conjunction B1+ If you say that someone should do something or something unpleasant will happen, you are warning them that if they do not do it, the unpleasant thing will happen. She had to have the operation, or she would die. 6. conjunction You use or to introduce something which is evidence for the truth of a statement you have just made. He must have thought Jane was worth it or he wouldn't have wasted time on her, I suppose. 7. or no/or not phrase You use or no or or not to emphasize that a particular thing makes no difference to what is going to happen. [emphasis] Chairman or no, if I want to stop the project, I can. The first difficulty is that, old-fashioned or not, it is very good. 8. or no phrase B2 You use or no between two occurrences of the same noun in order to say that whether something is true or not makes no difference to a situation. The next day, rain or no rain, it was business as usual. 9. or else phrase You say 'or else' after a command to warn someone that if they do not obey, you will be angry and may harm or punish them. [spoken] Behave, or else! He told us to put it right, or else. 10. or other phrase You use or other in expressions like somehow or other and someone or other to indicate that you cannot or do not want to be more precise about the information that you are giving. [vagueness] I was going to have him called away from the house on some pretext or other. The Foundation is holding a dinner in honour of something or other. Somehow or other he's involved. 11. or so phrase B2 You use or so when you are giving an approximate amount. [vagueness] Though rates are heading down, they still offer real returns of 8% or so. Matt got me a room there for a week or so when I first came here. The driver usually spends four hours or so helping to load and prepare his lorry. 12. or something pronoun B2 You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact. [vagueness] This guy, his name was Briarly or Beardly or something. The air fare was about a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something like that. -or (-əʳ ) suffix -or is used at the end of nouns that refer to people or things which perform a particular action. ...a major investor. ...the translator. ...an electric generator. Translations: Chinese: 或者 Japanese: または |
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