7. or other (preceded by a phrase or word with some) used to add vagueness to the preceding pronoun, noun, noun phrase, or adverb: some dog or other bit him; he's somewhere or other. 8. other things being equal conditions being the same or unchanged 9. the other day a few days...
(used to express vagueness or uncertainty) [用来表示不确切或不肯定] 某人(或某件东西、某件事;或以某种方式、用某种办法) they were protesting about something or other. 他们正在对一件什么事表示抗议。 展开全部 同义词 adj.别的,其他的 newdifferentextrafurtheradditionaldistinctsupplementaryfresh 其他释义 ...
(used to express vagueness or uncertainty) [用来表示不确切或不肯定]某人(或某件东西、某件事;或以某种方式、用某种办法) they were protesting about something or other. 他们正在对一件什么事表示抗议。 语源 Old English ōther, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German ander, from an Indo-...
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For instance, Cobreros et al., (2015: 379–380) draw similar conclusions for vagueness, they construct a prag- matic-epistemic semantics for gluts wherein contradictories are taken as bearing 'half-truth' (see also Cobreros et al., 2012). To support their view, they mention an ...
I have my own thoughts on what I was playing—but those guidelines were helpful in terms of interpretation, since the vagueness of Alan’s future was desirable. I think he’s misunderstood and never gets the chance to truly connect because of the group’s (probably justified) suspic...
The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially ...
The vagueness of the law on sexuality in the country makes its application inconsistent, resulting in excep- tional sexual discretion by enforcement agencies [10, 11]. The language used in Ghanaian criminal law contains ambiguity, leading many individuals and law enforcement agents to self-interpret...
to point out, as Tsoukala (2009a, 2009b) shows, that throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the Council of the EU also started to engage more with safety and security matters in football, under the umbrella of “counter-hooliganism” – again – despite the legal vagueness of “hooliganism”. ...
As I mentioned in thefirst articlein this three part series, the Sedition Act is not archaic or outdated, but it was an extremely bad law in the first place given its deliberate vagueness, its colonial intentions and the way that it was weaponized against those who resisted the brutal Britis...