Or is it something else?

还是其他什么？

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Is it the Checker or is it something else?

它是检查器还是其他内容吗？

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Or is it something else, something harder to describe?

还是其它一些难以说清的东西呢?。

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Or perhaps a better word would be what is it to be reminded of something by something else that resembles it but is not the thing it reminds you of.

更恰当一点的说法是,你是如何因为另一个类似的事物,而不是这个事物本身,联想到这个事物的

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So, "It's like" is good in comparing an object, person, place or thing to something else.

所以，“It's like”句型在比较物体、人物、地点与事物的时候非常有用。

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And is it really the high yield that makes dividend stocks attractive, or is it something else?

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Then you will know whether increasing compliance is really the objective of these efforts, or is it something else.

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Is my brain fried, or is it something else?

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