参考词典中but then的常规释义:
基本释义
- 但另一方面,不过
参考例句
- I'd tell you But then I'd have to kill you.
我不告诉你 - Mary was briefly flurried but then recollected herself.
玛丽在短暂的慌张之后又镇定下来。
- I'd tell you But then I'd have to kill you.
英英解释
1个副词解释
- (contrastive) from another point of view
[同] but then, on the other hand, then again
[反] on one hand, on the one hand
[例]- on the other hand, she is too ambitious for her own good
- then again, she might not go
点击查看……- (contrastive) from another point of view