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单词 either-or
释义
either-or
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌaɪ.ðərˈɔːr//ˌiː.ðərˈɔːr/us
/ˌiː.ðɚˈɔːr//ˌaɪ.ðɚˈɔːr/
used to refer to asituationin which there is achoicebetween two differentplansofaction, but both together are notpossible:
必须（或只能）两者择一的；非此即彼的
It's an either-orsituation- we canbuya newcarthisyearor we can go onholiday, but we can't do both.这就叫鱼和熊掌不可兼得——今年我们要么买辆新车，要么去度假，但只能做一样。
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Expressions used to describe situations
(Definition ofeither-orfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofeither-or

either-or
There is no radical disjunction, no mutually exclusive 'either-or', between them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Admirably, the slender volume does not provide easy answers, nor does it present ethical questions in aneither-ordichotomy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Our results are not 'either-or' statements and are thus the first results in the literature guaranteeing the existence of rainbow arithmetic progressions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These representeither-orthinking and false or unnecessary oppositions that we ourselves have criticized.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Maybe, maybe not, or maybe this is not aneither-orissue.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Moreover, she pointed out that linguists may be wrong in assuming that they are dealing with aneither-orwhen they talk about reception and production.
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Often pulling in opposing directions, the day-by-day resolution of these tensions generates differing degrees of change in a variety of ways, rather than generating strictly dichotomouseither-oroutcomes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
While the grammar extensively discusses the problematic borderlines between categories, in the end aneither-orchoice is made, and elements are assigned to one class or another.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That is to say, knowing a word is quite often not aneither-orsituation; some words are known well, some not at all, and some are known to varying degrees.
From theCambridge English Corpus
So it is not a case ofeither-or, because you cannot have one without the other.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
There seems to be aneither-orattitude in the matter.
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It is important that there should be aneither-orchoice.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
As he said, it is not aneither-orsituation.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not think that this is aneither-orsituation.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not accept that it is an "either-or" situation.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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