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。
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。
"To grumble" means to complain quietly, or sometimes not so quietly, about something.
“发牢骚”指悄悄地轻声抱怨某事，或有时不那么平静。
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。
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。
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)。
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。
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)。
We tend to use the Greek letter rho, If you were to use Excel, it would be correl or sometimes I say corr.
我们习惯用希腊字母rho表示，如果你使用Excel，会用correl表示，有时我也用corr。
Therefore, an add-on, or sometimes referred to as a plugin, is needed for a browser to process the XForms content.
因此，浏览器需要一个增件（add-on），或者有时候叫做插件，来处理XForms内容。
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）。
I could influence them or sometimes even bring them around to my view (Yes, Jane Austen really is worth their time.)
我可以影响他们，甚至有时候说服他们接受我的观点(举个例子，简奥斯丁绝对值得他们的关注。)
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。
The top-down approach or sometimes known as the Economy-Industry-Company (EIC) model emphasizes the market over the company.
从上至下的方法侧重于整体市场。
The stage 1 boot loader usually loads a sequence of records called the stage 2 boot loader (or sometimes the stage 1.5 loader).
阶段1启动加载程序通常加载一个记录序列，该序列通常称为阶段2 启动加载程序（有时称为阶段 1.5 加载程序）。
One of the problems with much evolutionary psychology is that it just concentrates on humans, or sometimes on humans and chimps.
进化心理学广泛存在的问题之一是它只关注人类，或者有时候只关注人类和黑猩猩。
Even among those who found employment, wages were often no better or sometimes even worse than those for migrant workers in factories.
至于那些找到工作的毕业生，薪水往往较低，有时甚至不如工厂的农民工。
Nearly 60% of those aged between 18 to 34 questioned spoke of feeling lonely often or sometimes, compared to 35% of those aged over 55.
在被询问的18——34岁之间的人有将近60%的人称他们经常或有时会感到孤独，而超过55岁的人只有35%的比率有这种情况。
A number of surveys indicate implementation difficulties as one of the main causes of delay or sometimes even failure of SOA projects.
很多调查表明，难于实现已成为推迟甚至放弃SOA项目的主要原因之一。
The pirates use fast-moving skiffs to pull alongside their prey and scamper on board with ladders or sometimes even rusty grappling hooks.
海盗们通常驾驶机动性很强的快艇迅速接近目标，利用梯子——有时候甚至用锈迹斑斑的锚钩——爬上甲板。
Still others suggest the short or sometimes nonexistent legs of the 800 species of skinks are clues to where limbless snakes originated.
也有科学家认为，800种小蜥蜴的短小的有些甚至了退化的四肢提供了蛇起源的线索。
Still others suggest the short or sometimes nonexistent legs of the 800 species of skinks are clues to where limbless snakes originated.
也有科学家认为，800种小蜥蜴的短小的有些甚至了退化的四肢提供了蛇起源的线索。
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