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.
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。
Science (or rather half-way science) scoffs at reminiscence of dryad and hamadryad.
科学（或者伪科学）嘲笑人们回忆森林女神和树神。
Instead, you can create (or rather, generate) a list of URLs to download.
相反，您可以创建(或生成)需要进行下载的URL列表。
Are we primarily driven by what others think and do, or rather by our own evaluation?
我们是否主要为他人的想法和行为所左右，抑或是受控于我们对自身评价？
Oh! Then it is with Mrs Heathcliff you must settle, 'she observed;' or rather with me.
“啊，那么你一定得跟希刺克厉夫夫人接洽了，”她说，“或者还不如跟我说。”
I do not know what tramps would do without tea, or rather the stuff they miscall tea.
我不知道如果没有这杯茶——或者说这杯他们称之为茶的东西——流浪汉们会怎么样。
Are your transactions long or rather short ones and how many transactions per minute are expected?
您的事务是长还是短？一分钟预期有多少事务？
The characteristic of the book is this combination or rather contrast of high tone and shrewdness.
该书的特点是融高调和机灵的鲜明对照于一身。
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
没人能把我们和上帝分开，除非我们自己。或更确切地说，是我们自己远离了上帝。
A dbspace is an Informix data storage unit, it consists of or rather is supported by one or more chunks.
dbspace是Informix的数据存储单元，它包含一个或多个块(chunk)，更确切地说是由一个或多个块来支持。
"I feel proud wearing this uniform," he said as a friend - or rather, a comrade - snapped photos of him.
“穿上这套服装我感到骄傲。”他说，一位朋友——更确切地说同志一旁帮他照相。
Access methods refer to the ways that the optimizer reads (or rather retrieves) data from database tables.
访问方法是指优化器从数据库表中读取(更确切地说是检索)数据的方法。
Would you write code you know no one will ever bother to use, or rather write something that matters to many people?
你是否愿意开发没有人会去用的代码？还是愿意开发很多人都觉得有用的代码？
So you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car instead—or rather, let your car drive you.
于是，你决定开着环保型的氢动力车去上班，或者更确切地说，让你的车载着你去上班。
Okay, you've written a guide, or rather manual for life, called Discover Your Passion. What inspired you to write it?
你写了一份指引，或者说是一份生命使用手册，叫做《发掘你的热情》。是什么启发了你要写这样一份东西？
The figure trudged, or rather sloshed, onwards till the hill resumed and the treacherous sheet of water was left behind.
这人艰难地跋涉着、或者说是踉跄着一直向前，将这座小山和讨厌的水洼甩在了身后。
We never can provide each other with answers, but we sure know that ultimately we will overcome them or rather we have to.
我们永远无法为对方提供答案，但我们都确切知道我们终将克服它们，或者说我们必须克服它们。
In other words, these busy iPhone users didn't have time to goof off by clicking (or rather, tapping) through on a mobile ad.
换而言之，这些忙碌的iPhone用户没有时间点击手机广告。
Let me count the ways - or rather a few of the ways, because there are more howlers in the plan than I can cover in one column.
我来算算——荒谬的理由不在少数，因为这项计划中存在太多荒唐可笑之处，难以在一篇专栏文章中穷尽。
It was at that point the scientists realized that the wrong question wasbeing asked—or rather, the answer didn’t fit the question.
就在这时，科学家们意识到，提出的问题不对头——或者确切点说，答案与问题不符。
Ironically it's not just the pollutants that are doing us in. It may be too much cleanliness-or rather, cleanliness of a certain sort.
很讽刺的一点是，我们的困境并非过分污染所致，而相反地，很可能是因为过于清洁，或者说，某种意义上的过分清洁。
Strictly speaking the composite behaves not like a battery but more like a capacitor, or rather a supercapacitor, says Dr Greenhalgh.
严格来说这种复合材料与电池并不相似，而更像是一个电容器，或者说是个超级电容器，格林浩尔博士说道。
At night, to keep his mind off Sonia, Brill tells himself stories-or rather, one tale in particular, which he develops in several instalments.
到夜间，为了把思绪从索尼亚身上移开，布瑞尔就自己给自己讲故事—换句话说，他讲述了一个颇有篇幅的特殊传奇故事。
The main problem people encounter when writing their first makefile is visible in this construction; or rather, invisible. The indentation is a TAB.
人们在编写自己的第一个makefile时所碰到的主要问题在这个结构中可能看得出来，也可能看不出来：缩进使用的是制表符，而不是多少个空格。
The main problem people encounter when writing their first makefile is visible in this construction; or rather, invisible. The indentation is a TAB.
人们在编写自己的第一个makefile时所碰到的主要问题在这个结构中可能看得出来，也可能看不出来：缩进使用的是制表符，而不是多少个空格。
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