被自恋症折磨的人会变得只专注于自己的事情，或者不断地自我炫耀。
Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.
也许你还没有想清楚这个问题，又或者你想更清楚地了解团队的想法。
Maybe you haven't finished thinking the problem through, or you want to get a clearer sense of what the group thinks.
提高效率的最佳理由是它的成本——或者更准确地说，是它的盈利能力。
The best argument for efficiency is its cost—or, more precisely, its profitability.
或者想象一个研究项目，数以千计的科学家日夜不停地为之奋斗。
Or imagine a research project with thousands of scientists working around the clock forever.
西方的科学家正着手利用这种智慧，它越来越多地作为“InuitQaujimajatuqangit”或者IQ 被提及。
Western scientists are starting to draw on this wisdom, increasingly referred to as 'Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit', or IQ.
雕像和公式，这些有用，或者更确切地说，滥用人类天赋的机械工具，是一种脚镣，持续且不成熟。
Statues and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle-chains of a continuous immaturity.
没有人在听。每个人都挤在800张赌台的周围，目不转睛地盯着翻开的纸牌、旋转的轮盘或者滚动的骰子。
No one is listening. Everyone is jammed around the 800 tables, focused on the flip of cards, the spin of the roulette wheel or the roll of dice.
我们有意或无意地把它们建立在真人基础上，或者把几个人的特点，他们的属性，混合成一个角色。
We base them, consciously or unconsciously, on real people, or we blend several people's traits, their attributes into one character.
如果你把手指一次次地在这张软盘上滑动，你就会使这些粒子失去方向，或者可能会把它们全部敲掉。
If you just run your fingers again and again over this floppy disk, you are disorienting those particles or knocking them off perhaps altogether.
因为现今的联邦法律已经禁止使用联邦基金克隆胚胎用于研究或者有意地威胁胚胎的生命，NBAC在胚胎研究上将保持沉默。
Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos for research or to knowingly endanger an embryo 's life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research.
你不想把宝贵的时间浪费在混乱无序地跟踪事态发展上，不想错过重要的截止日期、弄错面试时间，或者忘记跟进结果。
You don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times, or forget to follow up a result.
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.
任何一个曾经辛苦地经历过SAT考试的人都可以证实，应试技巧也很重要，即是否知道什么时候该猜测答案或者什么样的问题该跳过去。
Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it's knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.
你看不见它，闻不到它，也听不到它，并且人们对于如何准确地定义它，或者查明它的来源也存在分歧。
You can't see it, smell it, or hear it, and people disagree on how precisely to define it, or where exactly it comes from.
问题出在纪律上，或者更确切地说，是学校缺乏纪律。
The problem is due to discipline, or, more precisely, the lack of discipline, in schools.
海平面可能会升高，或者陆地可能会下降；不论发生哪种情况，沙丘都将很快消失。
The sea may rise or the land may fall; either way the sand dunes will be gone in a short time.
年轻女性们，求你们了，微笑、傻笑、假笑或露齿而笑，怒视或瞪视，或者如果你愿意，漫无目的地闲逛都行，看在上帝的份上，别摆那张鸭子脸了。
Please, young women, smile or simper or smirk or grin, glower or glare, or just mope about if you like, but for the love of God, please put away the duck face.
当演讲者和听众——或者作者和读者——以合奏的形式，协调地执行各自的行动时，这种联合行动就出现了。
It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners—or writers and readers—perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles.
你以为有人会温柔地望着他吗，或者你觉得他会得到圣诞树？
没有人确切地知道它是什么时候或者为什么开始成为和平的象征。
No one knows for sure when or why it began to symbolize peace.
我靠我的标准失业救济金生活——或者更确切地说，靠社会保障救济金生活。
I live on my standard unemployment benefit—or rather, social security benefit.
例如，岛屿通常没有大型食肉动物的殖民地，或者太小而无法容纳可行的食肉动物种群。
For instance, islands often have not been colonized by large predators or are too small to hold feasible predator populations.
口语可以发挥各种重要的作用：说服或鼓舞人心、传达信息、表达敬意、娱乐，或者简单地介绍某人或某物或接受某物。
The spoken word can handle various vital functions: persuading or inspiring, informing, paying tribute, entertaining, or simply introducing someone or something or accepting something.
如果它遗漏了关键思想，含糊其辞地提及关键思想，或者它对重要信息的拓展不够充分，那它就不完整。
It is incomplete if it omits key ideas, makes vague reference to key ideas, or demonstrates limited development of important information.
有些人想要震惊世人，另一些人想要吸引人们关注科学，或者想更好地奖励那些以科研为己任的人。
Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.
你不会想要等到了你的目的地却发现你带的是错误的签证，或者更糟糕的是，你的护照不再有效。
You don't want to get to your destination only to find you have the wrong visa, or worse, that your passport isn't valid any more.
如果你已经成功地鼓起勇气去戒掉一个坏习惯，或者离开一份没有出路的工作，你就会获得面对其他挑战的信心。
If you've successfully mustered the willpower to kick a bad habit or leave a dead-end job, you gain the confidence to confront other challenges.
除非目前的温室气体排放量下降，否则70%的帝企鹅——即110万对繁殖伴侣——将被迫迁移它们的繁殖地，或者它们会在2100年前濒临灭绝。
Unless current greenhouse gas emissions drop, 70 percent of king penguins—1.1 million breeding pairs—will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100.
勒波爱让说：“除非目前的温室气体排放下降，否则70%的帝企鹅，即110万对繁殖伴侣，将被迫迁移它们的繁殖地，或者它们会在2100年濒临灭绝。”
Le Bohec said: "Unless current greenhouse gas emissions drop, 70 percent of king penguins—1.1 million breeding pairs—will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100."
这种行政日历很好地用于安排税收或者其他的需要按时交纳的东西。
This administrative calendar was much easier to use for things like scheduling taxes and other things that had to be paid on time.
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