I don’t know why I even mentioned it; maybe I thought I was being funny, or perhaps it was just a nervous reaction to a subject I didn’t want to discuss.

我不知道为什么要提这个细节；也许我只是想开开玩笑，也许是谈论到不愿意谈的话题时紧张所致。

youdao

Down near the station was a canal, or perhaps it was a river, hidden away under a yellow sky, with little shacks pasted slap up against the rising edge of the Banks.

距火车站不远有一条人工运河，也许它是一条天然河也不得而知，它躲在黄色的天幕下，突起的两岸边斜搭着一些小棚屋。

youdao

Science was simpler then, or perhaps it was just that we were more ambitious, less specialized.

当时科学较为简单，或者，也许是我们有较多的雄心，较少的专业化。

youdao

Or perhaps it was one of the biggest ever caught in the area.

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Or perhaps it means because you're sick, you can't hold your job down.

或许它意味着因为你病了，所以无法工作。

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So, for example, if you have a joint project that you're working on, perhaps it's a homework assignment, or perhaps it's a video project like these guys, that can turn into a Prisoners' Dilemma.

比如说你和别人要进行一个合作项目,可能是家庭作业,或者像他们正在进行的视频采集项目,它能变成一个囚徒困境

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Or perhaps it would lead to the harmless redistribution of rents from firms to employees.

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Or perhaps it is the chance to witness something that last happened in 1941.

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Or perhaps it would be better if I went inside with you and made Mrs.

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