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otherwise

/uhth-er-wahyz/US // ˈʌð ərˌwaɪz //UK // (ˈʌðəˌwaɪz) //

否则,不然的话,否则的话,否则就

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
    • : in another manner; differently: Under the circumstances, I can't believe otherwise.
    • : in other respects: an otherwise happy life.
conj.连词 conjunction
  1. 1
    • : or else; if not: Button up your overcoat, otherwise you'll catch cold.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : other or different; of another nature or kind: We hoped his behavior would be otherwise.
    • : in other or different circumstances: An otherwise pleasure had become a grinding chore.

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Examples

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • If someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.

  • Larson, as usual, instills gravitas and agency in an otherwise underwritten character.

  • Millennials—rich or otherwise—have been notoriously uninterested in politics.

  • Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • Rather late that evening we administered extreme unction to him, for otherwise he was sufficiently prepared for it.

  • It rather annoyed her than otherwise, but her husband was pleased, and that was enough for Georgie.

  • Otherwise, a child's box of tin soldiers sent by post would have been just the thing for the Dardanelles landing!