他花时间在工厂或者在该党忠实拥护者的集会上发表演讲。
He spends his time making speeches at factories or gatherings of the Party faithful.
我读到过，它们为了躲避捕食者，经常喷出一团墨水，或者类似的东西。
I read that they often hide from predators by squirting out a cloud of ink, or something like that.
美国各地的企业已经裁员或者倒闭，给求职者留下的就业机会更少了。
Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.
有经验的游泳者都知道，要想从湍急的水流中逃离狭窄的水道相对来说比较容易，方法是让水漂浮起来，让它把你进一步拖入大海，或者沿着海岸游泳。
Experienced swimmers know it is relatively easy to escape the narrow channel of the fast moving water by floating and allowing it to drag you further into the ocean or by swimming alongside the shore.
老一代人经常用个人化的、现在时的口吻谈论他们的学历：“我是一个地理学家”，或者“我是一个古典学研究者。”
Older generations often talk about their degree in the present and personal tense: 'I am a geographer' or 'I am a classist.'
事实上，大多数美国以外的孩子都被期望成为双语者，或者——在很多情况下——甚至是多语者。
In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual.
因此，它们已经失去了在经济萧条时期曾经持有的“保护伞”——一个后备挣钱者（通常是母亲），她可以在主要挣钱者失业或者病倒的时候出去工作。
As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback—a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick.
使用所谓的关联准则，我们可以推断出一些事情，或者更确切地说，说话者可以在话语中暗示一些内容，而听者可以从这些话语中做出推断。
Using the so-called Maxim of Relevance we can infer things as well, or rather the speaker can imply things and the listener can make inferences.
在利用160字的短信，或者说手机的短信服务来造福非洲那些脆弱的孩子方面，他是一个杰出的创新者之一。
He is one of the premier innovators in how 160-character text messages – or SMS on a mobile phone—serve vulnerable children in Africa.
如果您的程序是数据的浏览器或者编辑器——比如文字处理器或者图像显示器——那么那些数据有可能来自攻击者，所以那是不可信的输入。
If your program is a viewer or editor of data—such as a word processor or an image displayer—that data might be from an attacker, so it's an untrusted input.
它们可能是结构模式，行为模式，或者两者兼而有之。
They may be patterns of structure, patterns of behavior, or both.
如果被捕食者或者入侵的克林贡人攻击，他会怎么做？
What would he have done if attacked by a predator or an invading Klingon?
短语动词指的是动词与副词或介词，或者有时两者结合，赋予新的意义。
A phrasal verb refers to a verb combined with an adverb or a preposition, or sometimes both, to give a new meaning.
问题是有些人贩是掠夺者，他们抛弃、绑架或者杀害被他们绑架的人。
The problem is that other smugglers are predators, who abandon, kidnap or kill their charges.
每隔一年左右，一些潜水者或者东西在大海里失踪了，这些家伙都会把他们带回家。
Every other year or so, some diver or something gets lost out at sea, these guys bring them home.
为了减缓或者避免认知能力的衰退，研究者们调查了抽烟、饮食、脑力挑战游戏、运动以及其他策略的效果。
To reduce or avoid it, researchers have examined the effect of smoking, diet, brain-challenging games, exercise and other strategies.
斯坦伯格和加德纳随机分配了一些参与者，让他们单独玩或者让两个同龄的同伴看着他们玩。
Steinberg and Gardner randomly assigned some participants to play alone or with two same-age peers looking on.
有没有这样一个时刻，你最终觉得自己是一个跑步者，或者你突然更加意识到你取得的进步？
Was there a moment when you finally thought of yourself as a runner or you were suddenly more aware of the progress that you had made?
在夜晚，窝器能让蛇类“看到”捕食者或者猎物的图像——正如红外摄影机一样——赋予他们一个独特的额外感官。
At night, the pit organs allow snakes to "see" an image of their predator or prey-- as an infrared camera does-- giving them a unique extra sense.
或者你可能被要求在家庭活动介绍一位演讲者或婚礼上做演讲，你的语言将需要感动人们或使他们发笑。
Or you might be asked to introduce a speaker at a family event or to speak at a wedding, where your language will be needed to move people or make them laugh.
在2008年的经济危机中，他们都是受其影响的孩子，许多他们的父母失去了工作或毕生积蓄，或者两者都失去了。
They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both.
如果这种病毒能够通过空气传播，或者如果一名感染者在不知情的情况下进入了人口密集的地区，那么埃博拉可能已经成为一种全球流行病。
If the virus had been capable of spreading through the air, or if one infected person had unknowingly entered a large population center, Ebola might have become a worldwide epidemic.
无论标签上写的是“非转基因”还是“无糖”，又或者是“零碳水化合物”，消费者对于了解更多与食品成分相关的信息有了越来越多的需求。
Whether the labels say 'non-GMO' or 'no sugar', or 'zero carbohydrates', consumers are increasingly demanding more information about what's in their food.
由于受到一系列精心设计的日常暗示的影响，消费者几乎不假思索地吃着零食，或者擦拭柜台，这些行为习惯已经帮助各公司赚取了数十亿美元的收益。
These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
一名艺术总监亚历山德拉·查辛对史密森尼说：“大多数参与者都是那些只是路过的人或是因为其他原因来到岛上的人，或者他们只是碰巧在那里。”
"Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the island for other reasons, or they just kind of happen to be there, "Alexandra Chasin, a artistic director, tells Smithsonian.
或者是那些将探险者的需求翻译成当地人能理解的语言的中间人——包括口译员和贸易商？
Or the go-betweens—including interpreters and traders—who translated the needs and demands of explorers into a language that locals could understand?
放贷机构常常与借款者勾结，以扩大抵押贷款规模，或者更糟糕的是，向借款者兜售错误的政策。
Too often lenders connived with borrowers to swell the size of mortgages, or worse, sell borrowers the wrong policy.
来赢利他的青睐或者是保护，但纵然是上帝，权力和能力也是有限的，事实上，他也许会被打败，或者攻击他的崇拜者。
To earn his favor and perhaps his protection, but even that god will have limited powers and abilities and may in fact be defeated or may turn on his devotees.
因为每个个体的生命都是短暂的，“机会主义者”这类物种的群体数量很可能受到干旱、严冬或者洪水等不利因素的影响。
Because each individual is short-lived, the population of an opportunist species is likely to be adversely affected by drought, bad winters, or floods.
支持者们从一张照片里指出了一些特征，例如阶梯状的“海滩”；可以想象，随着湖泊或者海洋蒸发以及海岸线的后退，这些阶梯状的“海滩”可能会遗留下来。
Proponents point to features such as the terraced "beaches" shown in one image, which could conceivably have been left behind as a lake or ocean evaporated and the shoreline receded.
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