A phrasal verb refers to a verb combined with an adverb or a preposition, or sometimes both, to give a new meaning.
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。
He sees that warm water flows back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.
他发现，当通常向西吹的风减弱时，温暖的海水就会向东流回，有时反之亦然。
Seats, or sometimes entire tables, were reserved.
座位，有时候全部的桌子，都被预订了。
It is usually boiled and served in soup or sometimes deep-fried.
这种食物经常煮熟，有时也会油炸。
Sometimes it takes 3 minutes, or sometimes 8 minutes and 47 seconds.
有时可能用3分钟，有时可能用8分47秒。
Concept cars are the prancing ponies -- or sometimes the pratfalling clowns.
车展上的概念车有时像欢蹦乱跳的小马驹，有时又像哗众取宠的小丑。
In her sleep, or sometimes I would get so mad and just come up quick and do it.
有时是趁她在睡觉的时候，遇到我心血来潮气得发疯，就会去掐她一下。
Each year two or sometimes all three of the strains of influenza need to be changed.
每年，两种变种有时是所有三个变种都需要变化。
Most people recover in several weeks - or sometimes months - without complications.
多数人几周内(有时数月)即可康复，且没有并发症。
Yet aren't we all part of a similar cult in our own lives, or sometimes tempted to be?
然而不是所有人在生活中都秉承同样的信仰，也不会想要一样的信仰。
Put the vegetable in a bowl with a tiny bit of water (or sometimes none), cover and zap.
把蔬菜放在一个碗里放上少量的水(有时无需加水)盖上盖子启动。
Even today, readers contribute no more than one, or sometimes two pages to the newspaper.
即使今天，读者反馈内容也不过占有区区一、两个版面。
Normal rainbows form when light refracts through raindrops, mist, or sometimes even sea spray.
正常的彩虹是由于光通过雨水，雾气，有时甚至海浪的折射所形成。
Until now the rupee has generally been shortened to the letters rs or sometimes INR (Indian rupee).
到目前为止。卢比通常缩写为字母rs，或者有时写作INR(印度卢比)。
The surrounding seas have long been regarded as Japan's protective armour, or sometimes its womb.
日本人一直将环绕国土的大海看作是自己的铠甲，有时甚至将她看作是自己的发源地。
A piece may require two, four or sometimes six weeks of constant hammering before it is finished.
一件作品需要2到4周，甚至是6周的持续敲打才能成型。
He said: There were four or sometimes five women each day. They had just become a habit to Gadaffi.
他说：每天有四到五名保镖。她们让卡扎菲上瘾。
Unlike in a ketch or yawl, the forward mast is smaller than the aft mast (or sometimes the same size).
与双桅帆或高低桅帆不同，前侧的桅杆要比后侧的矮(有时尺寸相同)。
Even in the best boards directors will occasionally disagree with their colleagues, or sometimes go public.
即使在最好的董事会，董事成员也回偶尔与同事意见分歧，或者有时矛盾公开。
"The groups can be both black or white hat (or sometimes grey) depending on their motivation, " he said.
“根据他们的动机，广义的黑客（注：全文若无特别注明都是指广义上的）可以是黑客（狭义）或者白客（有时是灰客）。”他说。
Before, emails would appear and quickly disappear in my inbox, only to be re-downloaded, or sometimes not.
以前，我的收件箱里的电子邮件有时会突然消失，只能重新下载。
The generational young-women counterparts are known in Japan as the “carnivores, ” or sometimes the “hunters.”
而这一辈的年轻女孩子们则被称为食肉动物，或者是捕猎者。
Other services, however, are accessible by IBM application consumers, vendor application consumers, or sometimes both.
不过，其他服务则可以由IBM应用程序用户、供应商应用程序用户访问（有时候两者都可以访问）。
Or sometimes holding resources for that duration might not be a good option for a system that handles a lot of traffic.
或者，对于处理大量流量的系统，有时在该持续时间内占用资源也许不是很好的选择。
Connectivity issues usually surface as timeouts reported in error logs or sometimes as error messages in the user interfaces.
连通性通常表现为错误日志中报告的超时，有时也表现为用户界面中的错误消息。
Or sometimes the children will be separated from being with their parents and put in a social service, if the parents maltreat them.
如果父母亲虐待他们的小孩的话，或者有时候小孩不能再和父母亲生活在一起，而被送往社会服务机构。
Or sometimes the children will be separated from being with their parents and put in a social service, if the parents maltreat them.
如果父母亲虐待他们的小孩的话，或者有时候小孩不能再和父母亲生活在一起，而被送往社会服务机构。
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