idiom(alsothere again)C2used when you have had a newthoughtthat is different from or theoppositeof what you have just said:(用于表达与先前说法不同或相反的想法)话说回来,另一方面,然而I like totravelbut, then again, I'm veryfondof myhome.我喜欢旅游,可是另一方面我也很喜欢家里。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLinguistics: connecting words which express a contrast
again
any way you slice itidiom
at any rateidiom
at leastidiom
best
but
disjunctive
given
hand
however
in the face ofsomethingidiom
in the teeth ofsomethingidiom
might
nevertheless
only
rate
slice
spite
tooth
when
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then again
idiominfmlbut afterthinkingabout it:It would befuntoseethem – then again, I don’t really have thetime.(Definition ofthen againfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/then-again##