I live on my standard unemployment benefit—or rather, social security benefit.

我靠我的标准失业救济金生活——或者更确切地说，靠社会保障救济金生活。

In the end he had to walk—or rather run—to the office.

最后他不得不走着—应该说是跑着—去办公室。

She worked as a secretary, or rather, a personal assistant.

她当了秘书；确切地讲，是私人助理。

"SNOW is up," replied the Rat briefly; "or rather, DOWN."

“有雪了，”水鼠兰特简短地回答，“或者说,下雪了。”

Pinocchio had eaten the three pears, or rather devoured them.

皮诺乔把三个梨都吃了，更确切地说，把它们全吃光了。

Sleep or rather dream on it and you'll feel better in the morning.

睡一觉或者做个梦，早上醒来你就会感觉好一些。

It occurred to him that this boy was learning to fly—or rather to walk.

他突然想到，这个男孩正在学飞——或者说，是学走路。

The copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street.

这个录事就到哥本哈根来作客，更确切地说，他更像是住在高瑟街的一个家庭囚犯。

If you're in some battle, or rather, your troop is in some battle, and people are being killed left and right.

如果你在某个战场上，或者说，你的军队在某个战场上，周围的人被杀死。

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。

Statues and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle-chains of a continuous immaturity.

雕像和公式，这些有用，或者更确切地说，滥用人类天赋的机械工具，是一种脚镣，持续且不成熟。

As long as this gap exists, there will always be a possibility that new conflicts and jealousies will emerge, or rather that the old conflicts will re-appear, but between different groups.

只要这种差距存在，就总是有可能出现新的冲突和嫉妒，或者旧的冲突将重新出现，但是在不同的集团之间。

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。

Or rather, the choices sort of make themselves.

或者，这些根本就不是自己做出的选择。

We create reality or rather we co-create reality.

我们创造了现实，或者说我们共同创造了现实。

We don't really live anywhere. Or rather, we live everywhere.

我们实际上不住在任何地方，或者更确切地说，我们住在所有地方。

Or rather, it’s his very emptiness that makes him so full.

又或者说，是雪人空虚的内部造就了他的完整。

And I know who she is being advised by. Or rather, being incited by.

而且我知道是谁在给她出主意，是谁在背后煽风点火。

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。

Time or rather lack of time seems to be a major inhibitor of code reviews.

时间或缺少时间看起来是进行代码检查的主要障碍。

And yet feelings - or rather, their lack - became her life's secret torment.

然而感情，或者说感情的缺乏，已经成为她生命里一种秘密的折磨。

Scientists tend to be conflicted about the science behind it, or rather the lack thereof.

科学家们趋向认为它的背后的科学是相互冲突的，或者宁愿是缺乏理论依据的。

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 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？

It is 1740, and they are learning to eat. Or rather, they are learning table manners.

这是1740年，这些孩子正在学吃饭，或者更恰当地说，他们在学习餐桌礼仪。

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。”

This is the result of society’s relentless focus on education—or rather, exam results.

这是社会长期重视教育或者说是重视考试成绩的结果。