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We then find ourselves confronted by a fact, or rather an ensemble of facts, which, in the light of the preceding definitions, is not far from appeanog as a scandal: the prohibition of incest presents without the least equivocation, and indissolubly linked together, the two characteristics in which we recognized the contradictory attributes of two exclusive orders.

这时我们就会面对某种借助前述定义而看来离丑闻不远的事实或者一组事实：因为乱伦禁忌毫不含糊地表现了不可分离地结合在一起的这两种特性，而我们已经承认过它们是两种互相排斥的矛盾属性：乱伦禁忌构成一种规则，不过它是在所有社会规则中同时具备普遍性特征的惟一一种规则(第9页)。

I think-or rather, it is a fact-that if one can listen to something with all of one's being, with vigor, with vitality, then the very act of listening is a liberative factor, but unfortunately you never do listen, as you have never learned about it.

我以为——或者更确切地说，这是一个事实——如果一个人用全部的身心、饱满的精神、充沛的活力来倾听，那么倾听本身就是解脱的因素。

R Meles has made it clear he is seeking blood money—or rather carbon money—that would be quite separate from other aid to the continent.

eles先生明确表示，他寻求的是完全区别于其它对非援助的血腥钱，或更准确的说是carbon money。

In spite of this, or rather in consequence of it, he went again the following day, the 15th, after dinner, to Olmütz, and going into the house occupied by Kutuzov, asked for Bolkonsky.

那位年老的将军几乎踮着脚尖，挺直着腰身，赤红的脸上流露着军人低三下四的表情，他向安德烈公爵禀告一件什么事。

Composers have compensated for this deficiency by developing styles that are typically pianistic, or rather "keyboardistic," since the harpsichord and clavichord also suffer from the same limitation.

通过一般钢琴演奏家，或更确切地说是键盘乐器演奏家发展他们演奏风格，作曲家已经弥补了这一缺陷。其实大键琴和翼琴也同样有这样的局限性。

It is me! A bit naughty, or rather sloppily.

这就是我！有点调皮，还有点马虎。

He is a Leviathan, or rather a kind of seagod, whom the poor tars worship as the Indians do the devil.

他是个巨无霸，或者海神，可怜的水手们崇拜他就像印度人崇拜魔鬼一样。

But whether they go there in order to stuff a mushroom, or rather to download music and stick a frozen chicken tikka in the microwave, is probably an open question.

不过，男人们是去那里饱食一顿蘑菇，或者是去下载音乐，还是放一只冰冻的印式烤鸡肉到微波炉里，可能还是一个悬而未决的问题。

She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind - or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

她并不害怕黑夜；她唯一的念头就是避开人类——或者不如说是被称作世界的冷酷的生命群体，它作为整体是如此令人可怕，而作为个体却又不那样令人害怕，甚至是可怜的。

She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind--or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

她不畏惧阴暗；她唯一的念头是回避人类，或者那个被称作&人世&的群体。那东西集合起来多么阴森可怖，可是每个个体都并不可怕，有时甚至是可怜的。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。