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  <p>One easy way to give two options is to precede each one with&#160;<span class="hanzi">或者</span>&#160;(<span class="pinyin">huòzhě</span>).</p>

  <h2 id="structure">Structure</h2>

  <div class="jiegou"><div class="deux"><span style="color: rgb(255, 127, 80); font-family: NotoSansCJKsc; font-size: 30px;">或者</span>&#160;A，<span class="hanzist">或者</span>&#160;B</div>
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  <p>You can use almost anything as the options A and B.</p>

  <h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>

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      <li><span class="hanzi">只 有 一 块 蛋糕，或者 你 吃 或者 我 吃。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">There's only one piece of cake. Either you eat it, or I eat it.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">你 或者 学 汉语 ， 或者 学 法律，别的就别学了。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">Either study Chinese or law. Don't study anything else.</span></li>

      <li><span class="hanzi">咱们 或者 去 爬山 或者 泡温泉。</span>&#160;<span class="trans">Let's either go hiking or go to the hot springs.</span></li>
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  <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>

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    <li><a href="Expressing_&quot;either_..._or_...&quot;_with_&quot;yaome&quot;" title="wikilink">Expressing "either ... or ..." with "yaome"</a></li>

    <li><a href="Expressing_the_only_two_possibilities" title="wikilink">Expressing the only two possibilities</a></li>

    <li><a href="&quot;Or&quot;_in_statements" title="wikilink">"Or" in statements</a></li>
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  <h2 id="sources-and-further-reading">Sources and further reading</h2>

  <h3 id="books">Books</h3>

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    <li><span class="hanzi">现代汉语八百词（增订本）</span> (pp. 238) </li>
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  <h3 id="dictionaries">Dictionaries</h3>

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    <li><span class="hanzi">现代汉语词典（第5版）</span> (pp. 623) </li>
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