4one ... or anotherused to say that there are many different types of something, or many possibilities, rather than being specific 各种各样的
All the kids in this class have learning difficulties of one sort or another.
这个班上的每个孩子都有这样或那样的学习障碍。
people who, for one reason or another, can’t have children
因这样或那样的原因不能生孩子的人
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one ... or another• It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.• Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.• Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.• To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.• The platesslide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.• Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.• Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.• At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the militarydefensecomplex.
5one after anotherused to talk about a series of similar things or events 一个接一个
Small businesses have been collapsing one after another.
小型企业纷纷倒闭。
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one after another• Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.• This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.• As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.• The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.• On Saturdayevenings everybody in the family had a bathone after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.• Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century chinahandle.• Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.• Just one after another on the streets.• Autumndrew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.• He's had one problem after another this year.
6not another ... !spoken used when a series of bad or annoying things have happened and something of the sametype seems to have just happened again 不要再…!〔用于指不好或讨厌的事物接连发生后似乎又要重演〕
Oh no! Not another accident!
啊,不!别再出事故!
7be another thing/matterused to suggest that something may not be true, possible, easy etc, after mentioning something that is 是另一回事
It is true that his programme is original, though whether it is funny is quite another matter.
不错,他的节目很新颖,但好不好笑则完全是另一回事。
It is one thing to talk about ‘involving the students’; it is quite another thing to actually do this.
说“让学生参与”是一回事,真正做起来又完全是另一回事。
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be another thing/matter• Defending a U. S. Senateseatis another matter.• Whether I understood them was another matter.• Whether they will be allowed to evict their unwelcome, unsavoury, tenants, from belfries and elsewhere, is another matter.• But for many of us, reading is another thingaltogether.• But the administration that has now begun work in Washington will be another matter altogether.• Real artis another matter and, despite recent genuflections towards Rembrandt, a rarity becoming rarer.• And that is another matter entirely.• Indeed it can: but whether the argument would carry any weightis another matter entirely.
8and another thingspoken used to introduce something additional that you want to say to someone about a different subject 还有一件事〔用于引出不同的话题〕
And another thing. You were late for work again this morning.
还有一件事,你今天早上上班又迟到了。
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and another thing• Oh, and another thing: Prices will go down, too, as much as three to five bucks per dish.• And another thing! Where's the fifty dollars you owe me?
9MORE/EXTRAsimilar person/thing 类似的人/物 used with the name of a well-known person, thing, event etc to mean someone or something else that is similar because they have the same good or bad qualities 另一个〔类似的人、物、事件等〕
warnings that not enough has been done to prevent another Chernobyl
对于未采取足够措施防止切尔诺贝利事件重演的警告
There’ll never be another Elvis Presley.
不可能再出现一个埃尔维斯·普雷斯利了。
nGRAMMAR: Spelling
Another is written as one word:
There must be another way of doing it.
✗Don’t write: an other
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another 2/10/100 etc• Just as he finished dealing with that, another two containersarrived ...• Production is planned to continue for another two years. 7.• The line continued beyond there for another two miles, up three self-acting inclines to the quarries.• This was the famousgun that could put a shell on to a target and then another two on the same spot precisely.• We hitch-hiked home in the storm, and another two hours went by before we finally made it back.• The artist will soon release 50 bottles at spots near San Francisco Bay while consigninganother 100 for launching around the world.• Karsten Manufacturinglaid off 125 employees last year, with another 100 leaving on their own.• We watched him for another 10minutes before he moved off into the woods where we could no longer see him.
from one ... to another• Considerableskills are required for the management of change - skills which are not necessarily transferable from one environment to another.• I went from one to another.• They were continualconcreteevidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another.• The sensewire would windfrom one core to another. current to an individualcore via the X and Y wires.• Playersrotatefrom one position to another, even sharing the quarterback spot.• And this question variesfrom one circumstance to another, from one state to another.• There were crowds of people herdingfrom one pub to another like wildebeest in the rainyseason.• Perhaps they had thought such a warningfrom one soldier to another might have seemed an impertinence.