one or the other

基本解釋

You cannot serve two masters; you must serve one or the other.
你不能侍奉兩個(gè)主人，你必須侍奉其中一個(gè)，非此即彼。
A compiled piece of software is written to work with one or the other, but not both.
一個(gè)編譯好的軟件片段是用來(lái)與其他的一起工作，但不是全部。
It wants to recognise that many conditions, such as anxiety and depression, tend to overlap, so that a diagnosis of only one or the other does not always make sense.
它想識(shí)別許多往往是重疊的癥狀，比如焦慮和抑郁，從而使得只對(duì)重疊癥狀的一個(gè)或者另個(gè)的診斷不能總是成理。

One or the other would be destroyed.
Nonpolar molecules result from either, it's one or the other.
一個(gè)非極性分子，不是這一種就是那一種。
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And once you get out, you can only... you're committed to doing one or the other.
一旦你學(xué)完了，你只能……你只能做一個(gè)或者另一個(gè)，
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To ignore one or the other would be to over-hype or under-play the iPad.
FORBES: iPads In The Enterprise Aren't Overhyped. They're Properly Hyped.