or else• Get me my money by next week or else.• He would make that clear, or else he would have no part in the raid.• It must be important, or else he wouldn't have called at 3 a.m.• He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew.• The bolderinnovation comes direct by rescript from the emperoror else is a result of his influence.• All the characters would find decisions much easier if evil were unquestionably either just Boethian or else just Manichaean.• He was bright and alive, and made those around him live more vividly or else move on.• Some of them continued to pursue him, or else Orestes thought that they did.• The old masters merely dammed streams and createdlakes to break up the landscapeor elsereflect its beauty.• He thought you had to be a model or a dancer, or else something in showbiz.• They must have thought everything was safe, or else they would have warned us.
3British EnglishBrE spokenONLY used after a questionword to say that the thing, person, or place you have mentioned is the only one possible 还能有别的…〔用于疑问词后,表示刚提及的事情、人或地方是唯一的可能〕
‘What are you doing?’ ‘Waiting for you, what else?’
“你在干什么?”“在等你呗,还能做什么?”
4what else can somebody do/say?DIFFERENT spoken used to say that it is impossible to do or say anything apart from what has been mentioned 某人还能做/说什么?〔用于表示除了刚提到的事情,不可能做[说]别的了〕
‘Will you really sell the house?’ ‘What else can I do? I can’t live here.’
“你真的要把房子卖了?”“还能怎么办?我不能住在这里了。
Examples from the Corpus
what else can somebody do/say?• I told her it looked good. What else could I say?• I do about three hundred sit-ups a day and it still refuses to firm up, but what else can I do?• P.S. Awful - but what else can one do?• So what else can Florida do?• What else can a sinner say?• What else can he realistically do?• What else can I do for you Jim?• What else can I do to improve things?
When you want to use the possessive form of ‘someone else’, ‘anyone else’, or ‘no one else’, you should add ’s to else , not to ‘someone’ etc. someone else 、 anyone else 或 no one else的所有格形式是在else后面加’s ,不是在someone等词后面加
Don’t use someone else’s ideas (NOT SAY不说:someone’s else ideas).
不要用别人的想法。
nGrammar
The possessive form of someone/anyone else is someone/anyone else’s:
else• Andrea's obsessed with money -- she never thinks about anything else.• It did not restrictcorporateofficials or anyone else, as individuals, from giving as much money as they liked.• By belonging to Sophie, I began to feel as though I belonged to everyone else as well.• What else can I get you?• What about everyone else - ever been a mate, colleague, love-child of anyone who's ever played for us?• Everyone else gets to go - why can't I?• Go and play somewhere else. I'm trying to work.• Failing all else, its feet will provide some indication of its ultimateadultsize.• Jamie's special. There's really no one else like him.• She's wearing someone else's coat.• There's nothing else to do.• Is there anything else to eat?• Clayton needs someone else to help him.• Who else used to do it?• Henry complains of her talking to some one else while dancing with him and compares a country dance to a marriage.• Anything else would have been inappropriate.
Above all else• Most important of all, it put him beyond the law. Above all else, Ellwood hatedweakness.• I really didn't want that. Above all else I didn't want that.• Clear use of colour is also important. Above all else, the chart should: 1.