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else
[ els ]
adjective
- other than the persons or things mentioned or implied:
What else could I have done?
- in addition to the persons or things mentioned or implied:
Who else was there?
- other or in addition (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun):
someone else's money.
adverb
- if not (usually preceded by or ):
It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds.
- in some other way; otherwise:
How else could I have acted?
- at some other place or time:
Where else might I find this book?
else
/ 蓻濒蝉 /
determiner
- in addition; more
there is nobody else here
- other; different
where else could he be?
adverb
- or else
- if not, then
go away or else I won't finish my work today
- or something terrible will result: used as a threat
sit down, or else!
Grammar Note
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of else1
Idioms and Phrases
- or else, or suffer the consequences:
Do what I say, or else.
More idioms and phrases containing else
see in someone's (else's) shoes ; or else ; something else ; something else again .Example Sentences
"He puts a lot of time and effort into the club, and his expectations and everyone else's expectations should be way, way higher than that."
The judge said jurors would no doubt have heard about the case but, when they were selected, they would swear a "solemn" oath to only try it based on the evidence they saw and heard in "the four walls" of the courtroom and nothing else.
"In the meantime I've had to order flowers from somewhere else," she said.
鈥淚t clears your mind a little more and you just feel less stressed about everything else.鈥
"We need a framework. If people don't have an idea of what to do, then very often they will just do nothing or shunt it on to somewhere else," Ms Matuozzo said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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