or rather

With that she told him what she had heard, or rather raised herself by my means, of his character.

她跟着就告诉他所听到的，或者照我看来说靠着她所捏造出来的关于他的性格的种种传说。

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。

Or , rather, one doesnt admit imperfection until the new, improved product is ready to be rolled out .

或者说，在新的、改进了的产品马上要推出之前，不能承认产品存在缺陷。

i shall try to see her as soon as possible , or rather , after giving it a second thought , i shall avoid her.

我要设法尽早见到她，或者不如说，经过重新考虑后，我要避免见到她。

Such a dialogue, or rather, such an interrogatory monologue, is not in the least exceptional.

这样一段对话，更为确切地说是一段询问独白，并不罕见。

They teach that the appetite of the moment is not, or rather ought not to be, the sole determinant of one's behavior.

它告诉我们现在的胃口不能而不是不应该像原来那样，这对一个人的饮食行为具有唯一决定性。

The subway was delayed for quite a while, or rather for a whole quarter of an hour.

地铁阻塞了好一阵子，确切地说，有整整一刻钟霎时间。

That experience, or rather the ensuing brouhaha, seems to have awakened another passion, this one for publicity.

这一经历，或是随后发生的骚动，似乎激发了他的另一个嗜好——宣传。

But I think about something else, or rather of nothing at all, staring at the fat, laughing mouth of the woman in front of me.

但是我脑子里想的是别的，或者不如说什么都没想，只是盯着面前正在大笑的女人肥嘟嘟的嘴巴看。

Or rather, he threw two. Both were aimed at the head of George W. Bush, as he gave a press conference in Baghdad this weekend.

准确地说，他扔了两只鞋，全都瞄准乔治·W·布什的脑袋，那是本周末在巴格达的记者招待会上。

Roy: I fail to see what this has to do with me. Or rather, I am beginning to see, but I'm hoping I'm totally wrong. Crap.

我看不出这些和我有什么关系。或者不如说，我看出了点眉目，但我希望自己大错特错。该死。

But I wasn't discouraged, and I had a new aim, which was to be a postman, or rather to be a newspaper boy. As a newspaper boy.

但是，我还是没有泄气，我有了一个新的目标，就是当一名邮差，哪怕是一个报童也可以。

Your justifications for the transfer as being in the "interests of the family" did not appear very convincing. . . or rather - incomplete.

问：对转会原因的说法，你是说“为了家庭”，但这似乎不具说服力，或者…不够全面。

Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of mine who travelled with him at that time.

他突然死亡，怀疑与我的一个与他一起前往的叔叔是有联系的。

And anyway, Nintendo was and is a platform -- or rather, a set of platforms -- on which one can play many games.

无论如何，任天堂曾经是，现在也依然是一个平台，或者说是一系列平台，玩家可以在这些平台上玩很多游戏。

Israelis, or rather, Israeli Jews, are beginning to feel much the way their parents did in those apocalyptic days.

以色列人，或者说以色列犹太人，正在重温类似当年他们的父辈所感受到的世界末日即将来临的感觉。

For this reason, the point of sale of the drug should be suitable or, rather than a cheap and one-stop shopping.

所以，药品的销售点应该是及时的，而不是便宜和一站式购物。

You're starting to see your company as a mature SOA organization -- or, rather, as a maturing SOA organization.

您开始将公司视为一个成熟的SOA组织——或者正在逐渐成熟的SOA组织。

But Mr Oxley thinks the volume of new housing is only one factor affecting the real issue, which is affordability, or rather the lack of it.

但是奥克斯利教授认为真正的问题是买不买得起，而新房面积只是其中一个影响因素。。

Or rather I'm slogging it out, and my bank, First Direct, is doing some admirable slogging on my behalf, but the airline is stonewalling.

更确切地说，是我在苦苦努力，我的银行FirstDirect正代表我做着一些令人钦佩的努力工作，但这家航空公司却在从中作梗。