This is a strategy called double syntax, the notion that "in the Beginning" can modify one verb or the other.

这种手法叫做双关句，也就是,“太初“可同时修饰两个动词。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So if you want to go there with your girlfriend or a date, or just one other person,

所以，要是你想跟女友去，或去约会，或者一个其他人的话，

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Maintain friendships. In this world right now, there is a great tendency to move you to one side or the other, and be in conflict.

保持友谊在这个世界,有把你从一面推向另一面的趋势，并且两面相互对立。

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Milton's treading an extraordinarily fine line between the tremendous beauty of this image, on the one hand, and its potential impiety or just grotesquery on the other.

弥尔顿踩到了一条极其微妙的分界线上,这幅景象一方面极具美感，另一方面却可能是对上帝不恭甚至荒诞的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It turns out everything around us moves energy around in one way or the other If you're a biological system, you're burning calories, burning ATP.

我们周围的一切物质,都以这样那样的方式传递着能量,如果你是一个生物系统，你会燃烧卡路里，燃烧。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Nonpolar molecules result from either, it's one or the other.

一个非极性分子，不是这一种就是那一种。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Neurons have these projections because one important property, or one important function of neurons, is to communicate with each other.

这些突起,源于神经细胞,一项重要的性质,或者说一项重要的功能,那就是实现信息的交流

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

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Well, it turns out that if you want to check two conditions and you only care that one of them is true or the other one is true.

好的，结果是如果你想要核对两个条件,你只关心其中一个是正确的,或另外一个是正确的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

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How it is to enter into the creation of films and what are the schools of thoughts that have origined by emphasizing one or the other so that immediately we'll be get into the question that you are already sensative to I'm sure.

怎样走进电影创作,电影创作有哪些相伴相生的,思想流派,我们很快就会,探讨这个问题,你已经对此有所感悟。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

They play with these partials on each of these notes, but this is just one sound with all of these other things mixed in to the medley that produces the quality or timbre of a particular instrument.

它们改变音符中的分音的强度,不过这只是一个声音,要算上其它所有分音的集合,才能构成一个特定乐器的音色

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Perhaps at the other end of the tunnel they begin to have some communications or see some loved one who has died previously or perhaps some famous religious person in their-- in the teaching of their tradition-- their religious tradition.

或许在隧道的另一头,他们开始某种交流,或者看见早已死去的挚爱亲友,看见他们传统教义中,或宗教传统中的,某个著名宗教人物

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

At the end of the semester he then asked people to rate different pictures as to how much they liked them, and even though people had no memory of seeing one or--versus the other they tend to like the pictures more that they had seen before.

在学期末，他叫同学,按自己喜欢程度，给这些图片评分，虽然同学都不记得哪些看过，哪些没看过,但他们喜欢的图片往往是,他们之前看过的图片。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And once you get out, you can only... you're committed to doing one or the other.

一旦你学完了，你只能……你只能做一个或者另一个，

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or you can get... what is the other one? I think it's the Commonwealth Award.

或者还有……另外一个是什么？我想是英联邦奖。

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