| 释义 |
if notPerhaps even (used to introduce a more extreme term than one first mentioned): hundreds if not thousands of germs...- It looks like there has been a fair bit of work done and no doubt it cost a few hundred quid, if not over a thousand.
- The vast number of papers which had all been piled up seemed to have hundreds if not thousands of pages.
- From the US it must seem that much European comment is unsympathetic if not carping.
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