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The minders' voices trembled with reverence as they ushered us into the presence of the "Great Leader" himself – or rather, a creepily realistic waxwork, greeting us with outstretched arm and the smarmy grin of a door-to-door salesman.

指引我们进入"伟大领袖"本人所在地时，保镖的语气在颤抖中透着尊敬。与其说是本人，不如说是令人毛骨悚然的现实主义蜡像，双臂张开，嘴角透露出推销员般的狡黠笑容。

In its original guise, it was written or rather carved in Babylonic cuneiform.

其最初形式是以巴比伦楔形文字写就，或者说刻下的。

What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to them!

怎么！他和那几个穷苦无告的人之间只有一墙相隔，他们过着摸黑的生活，被隔绝在大众的生活之外，他和他们比邻而居，如果把人类比作链条，那么他，可以说是他们在人类中接触到的最后一环了，他听见他们在他身边生活，应当说，在他身边喘息，而他竟熟视无睹！

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough---Eug ne Delacroix,French Romantic artist.

驱动天才或者说赋予他们灵感的不是什么新想法，而是令他们痴迷的一个观点：已经说过的东西远远不够---尤金。德拉克罗马，法国浪漫主义艺术家。

And that cage widely open? Not a glimpse. Or rather it never counts especially in front of their desideratum: food to eat, water to drink and things to play.

它们对那个敞开的笼门看也不看，在这个有吃，有喝，有快乐的环境里，敞开的笼门又算得了什么呢？

During these mentally desolated years, my parents were going through some serious financial crisis or rather catastrophe.

在这些精神荒芜多年，我的父母都经历一些严重的金融危机或者灾难。

Easy. Or rather, it isn't easy, but it does become easy-ish eventually.

这很简单。或者更确切地说，这并不简单，但最终确实会变得简单起来。

She imputed the whole to the extravagance or rather ebullient of his passion.

她把这一切全归咎于他情感的丰富，不能自持。

Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthrall us… To become the spectator of one's own life, is to escape the suffering of the life.

普希金的"现今总是令人悲哀：/一切都是暂时的，转瞬即逝，/而那逝去的将变得可爱"，就含着这样的意思啊。

Sometimes he takes the ground of idealism, maintaining that thoughts are things, that the only reality is perception, or rather, that a thing is real only in the sense that it is perceived, esse est percipi.

有时，他的理由，唯心论，保持思想的东西，唯一的现实是，知觉，或者更确切地说，这事是真实的，只有在意识，这是知觉， esse预测

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。