by some means or other

常见例句

By some means or other he got my address.
通过这种或那种途径，他知道了我的地址。
We must get out of the present dilemma by some means or other.
我们总得想个办法摆脱目前的困境。
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He perceived that by some means or other she, like himself, had divine the truth of her father being the murderer.
他晓得不知怎么样，她也象自己一般，已经发觉她的父亲是凶手了。

If democratic governments are not committed to the abolition of such regimes—sooner or later, by some means or other—then their foreign policies are not worth much.
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