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or /ə; strong ɔː $ ər strong ɔːr/ ●●● S1 W1 conjunction → a a, ore, re, of, her, awe, er, oar, o o, are
1  XXpossibilities/choices 可能性/選擇 used between two words or phrases to show that either of two things is possible, or used before the last in a list of possibilities or choices 或，或者，還是
Shall we go out to the cinema or stay at home?
我們是出去看電影還是待在家裏？
You can have ham, cheese, or tuna.
你可以選擇火腿、幹酪或者金槍魚。
... or anything/something spoken (=or something of the same kind) 或其他什麽的，諸如此類的什麽
Would you like a coffee or something?
你想來杯咖啡什麽的嗎？
She wasn’t involved in drugs or anything like that.
她沒有涉毒之類的行爲。
Grapes are usually either green or red.
葡萄一般要麽是綠色，要麽是紅色。
He’s going to do it whether we like it or not.
不管我們喜歡與否，他都會去做這件事。
You must do the job yourself or else employ someone else to do it.
你必須自己做這件事，或者就僱别人去做。
→ either1
2  NOTand not 也不 used after a negative verb when you mean not one thing and also not another thing 也不，也不是，也沒有〔用於含否定意思的動詞後〕
He doesn’t have a television or a video.
他沒有電視機，也沒有錄像機。
Sonia never cleans or even offers to wash the dishes.
索尼娅從不收拾整理，甚至都不會說她來洗碗。
3  WARNavoiding bad result 避免壞的結果 used to say that something bad could happen if someone does not do a particular thing 否則，要不然
Wear your coat or you’ll catch cold.
穿上外套，要不你會着涼的。
Hurry up or we’ll be late.
抓緊時間，不然的話我們要遲到了。
I had to defend myself or else he’d have killed me.
我只得自衛，否則他就把我殺死了。
You’d better hand over the money, or else (=used to threaten someone).
你最好把錢交出來，不然的話夠你受的。
4  ADDcorrection 更正 used to correct something that you have said or to give more specific information 即，那就是，或者說〔用於更正說法或給予更確切的信息〕
It’s going to snow tomorrow, or that’s what the forecast says.
明天要下雪，確切地說，氣象預報是這樣說的。
John picked us up in his car, or rather his dad’s car which he’d borrowed.
約翰開着他的車——確切地說是問他爸爸借的車來接我們。
We’ve cleaned it all up, or at least most of it.
我們全部清掃了一遍，或者說至少是清掃了大部分。
5  REASONproof 證明 used to prove that something must be true, by saying that the situation would be different if it was not true 不然，否則
He must be at home, or his car wouldn’t be here.
他肯定在家裏，否則他的汽車就不會在這裏。
It’s obviously not urgent or else they would have called us straight away.
這事顯然不急，否則他們當即就打電話給我們了。
6  uncertain amounts 不確定的數量APPROXIMATELY used to show that you are guessing at an amount or number because you cannot be exact 或，或者〔表示對某個數量或數字不很確定〕
The boy was three or four years of age.
這男孩三四歲。
I saw Donald leaving a minute or two ago.
我看到唐納德一兩分鐘前離開的。
There’s a motel a mile or so down the road (=about a mile or possibly a little more).
沿這條路一直走，到大約一英裏的地方有家汽車旅館。
n THESAURUS
or conjunction used between two possibilities or choices, or before the last one in a list of possibilities or choices
Don’t get the chemicals on your hands or your clothes.
Payment can be made by cash, cheque or credit card.
alternatively adverbadv used when giving another choice apart from the one you have already mentioned
Use a pair of scissors or, alternatively, a very sharp knife.
You can go up into the mountains. Alternatively, you can stroll around one of Switzerland’s delightful cities.
on the one had ... on the other (hand) used when giving two very different ideas or opinions about something, especially when they need to be balanced against each other
On the one hand, I don’t want to hurt his feelings, but on the other, I don’t want to be miserable for the rest of my life.
Examples from the Corpus
or else• He would make that clear, or else he would have no part in the raid.• He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew.• The bolder innovation comes direct by rescript from the emperor or else is a result of his influence.• All the characters would find decisions much easier if evil were unquestionably either just Boethian or else just Manichaean.• He was bright and alive, and made those around him live more vividly or else move on.• Some of them continued to pursue him, or else Orestes thought that they did.• The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty.• He thought you had to be a model or a dancer, or else something in showbiz.
or else• He would make that clear, or else he would have no part in the raid.• He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew.• The bolder innovation comes direct by rescript from the emperor or else is a result of his influence.• All the characters would find decisions much easier if evil were unquestionably either just Boethian or else just Manichaean.• He was bright and alive, and made those around him live more vividly or else move on.• Some of them continued to pursue him, or else Orestes thought that they did.• The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty.• He thought you had to be a model or a dancer, or else something in showbiz.
or at least• Refrigerate overnight or at least 6 hours.• One notes, or at least at times suspects, a kind of failure of heart, a loss of nerve.• Illustrations include many paintings by the pre-eminent, or at least inescapable, Civil War artist Mort Kuntsler.• Bill and Ben's world was an innocent one, or at least it seemed that way.• The origin of this Neolithic population, or at least, its economy, is also difficult to determine for certain.• Behind him the mill was silenced, or at least overpowered.• Lastly, they want to give tax advantages to causes deemed worthy, or at least popular.• What keeps these young people and their parents at home is crime, or at least the fear of it.
or else• He would make that clear, or else he would have no part in the raid.• He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew.• The bolder innovation comes direct by rescript from the emperor or else is a result of his influence.• All the characters would find decisions much easier if evil were unquestionably either just Boethian or else just Manichaean.• He was bright and alive, and made those around him live more vividly or else move on.• Some of them continued to pursue him, or else Orestes thought that they did.• The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty.• He thought you had to be a model or a dancer, or else something in showbiz.
a mile or so• One crooked little shadow, flickering across stones and scrubland, made rapid progress for a quarter of a mile or so.• It is best to start with a very short drive, just a mile or so and back home.• There's a village a mile or so away.• He had sent the young sports-car-driver to ring for the police and ambulance at a phone-box a mile or so back.• In the afternoon, women would arrive in carriages from the great house a mile or so distant.• But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road.• After a mile or so the banks closed in and the gradient increased ... Inspection followed.
-or /ə $ ər/ suffix [in nouns]
1  PERSON/PEOPLEsomeone who does something or is doing something 〔做或正在做某事〕的人
an actor (=someone who acts)
演員
an inventor
發明家
a translator
譯者
2  something that does something 用於做…的器械
a calculator (=a machine which calculates)
計算器
a word processor
文字處理器
→ -er2, -ar
ORn
nthe written abbreviation of Oregon
From Longman Business Dictionary
OROR
abbreviation for OFFICIAL RECEIVER; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; OWNER'S RISK
Origin or
Old English oththe
 -or
Latin

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