You must curb your excessive spending, or you will become penniless.

你必须抑制过度消费，否则你会变得一无所有。

Obey the law or you will be punished.

遵守法律，否则你将会受到惩罚。

Dice me, slice me or peel me?

你想把我切了还是削了？

Most were elderly, or had underlying health conditions.

死者中大部分是老年，或是有基础病的。

The legislative tactic that used to block or delay action.

这样的立法策略用来阻止或延迟决定。

They're doing as well as Bush or better in the national polls.

在全美民调中，他们和布什做得一样好，甚至可说比布什做的还好。

Our economy doesn’t work as well or grow as fast when a few prosper at the expense of a growing middle class, and ladders for folks who want to get into the midle class.

我们的经济运转和增长还不够快，发，却的中产阶级为代价。这也包括那些站在梯子上想要加入中产阶级的。

If I burden myself with a little helpmate during my adventures, this is not out of sentiment or caprice, it is that he has many fine qualities of his own, that he has overlooked in his obsession with me.

如果我在旅途中增加一个负担找个帮手，这个不会是出于情感需要或是心血来潮，而是由于他本身的一些美好品质，只不过由于对我的痴迷而忽视了。

A slope can describe a surface or area that is not level.

斜坡可形容表层或某个区域，这个表层或区域不是水平的。

So You wanna tell us now, or are we waiting for four wet bridesmaids?

那么你是现在告诉我们呢，还是说我们等四位湿漉的伴娘来？

For many months afterward, and at many times since, I was swallowed up in the deep fog of grief—what I think of as the void—an emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe.

他去世后好几个月里，我经常悲伤得无法自已，内心只觉得一片无尽的空虚四处蔓延，占据了五脏六腑，我无力思考，甚至感觉像要窒息。

(imitating the characters) Tuna or egg salad? Decide!

金枪鱼还是鸡蛋沙拉？快决定！

What's up? You guys working hard or hardly working?

怎么样 你们在努力工作还是努力摸鱼？

Would you say that's waxing or waning?

你说这是满月呢 还是弦月呢？

Will you travel by sea or by air?

你们乘船去，还是乘飞机去？

It's caused by volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

室内空气污染的源头是挥发性有机化合物（简称为VOCs）。

It does not mean accepting the lowest common denominator or clinging to outmoded ideas out of apathy or fear.

也不意味着要刻意迎合大众口味，或是因冷漠或恐惧而抱住落后的想法不撒手。

3 She nodded three or four times, searched the heavens for the right words, and then exclaimed, " It was, like, whoa" !

她点了三四下头，绞尽脑汁，苦苦寻找恰当的词语，然后惊呼：" 真是，哇！"

So they live in trees or underground, and venture out only at night.

所他们住在树上或地下，只在晚上外出。

Would you like a king size bed or two double beds?

你是要豪华间，还是标准双间？