​Else的用法及位置归纳

Else的用法及位置归纳

我们在日常使用else一词时，常见的意思有“其他，别的，除了”的意思。下面总结它可以与哪些词连用，其在句中的位置和常见短语or else。

1.else跟something、nothing、anything这类代词连用，放在这些词的后面作定语。比如：

Let's try something else.我们试试别的吧。I don't think there is anything else we need discuss tonight.我觉得我们今晚没什么需要讨论的了。

He had nothing else to do except to return to his hot room.他无事可做，只好回到他那间闷热的房间。Everything else depended upon that.其他一切都取决于此。

2.else与表示人的someone、somebody、anybody、everybody这类代词连用，else放在它们的后面作定语。比如：

Everybody else but me has gone to the party.除了我，其他人都去参加晚会了。I must speak to Helen soon. She mustn't learn this from someone else.我必须马上和海伦谈谈。她不能从别人那里学到这些。

The old man was fooling himself, if he wasn't fooling anybody else.那老人如果不是在愚弄别人，那也是在愚弄自己。Nobody else but Robert could ever say such a thing.除了罗伯特，没人会说这种话。

It was a purely family matter, and concerned no one else.这纯粹是家务事，与别人无关。

3.else可以跟somewhere、nowhere、anywhere等表示地点的副词连用，else要放在副词后面。比如：

I'm going to take you somewhere else.我要带你去别的地方。There was nowhere else for me to go.我没有别的地方可去。You can't get it anywhere else.你在其他任何地方都买不到。

4.else和 who、what、where、how、when等疑问词连用，也是放在这些词的后面。比如：

Who else is there in the house?房子里还有谁?But what else could we have done?但我们还能做什么呢?

How else could I have acted?不然我还能怎么做呢?Where else did you go?你还去了什么地方?

I can't come on Tuesday. When else can we meet?星期二我不能来。我们还能在什么时候见面?Whose else could it be?还能是谁呢?

5.else和all、whatever等代词连用，并放在它们的后面。比如：

After all, his work was the important thing; beside it all else was trivial.毕竟，他的工作才是最重要的;与它相比，其他一切都是微不足道的。

He taught them to put the interests of the party before all else.他教导他们把党的利益放在第一位。

She felt sure this friendship would last, whatever else happened.她确信无论发生什么事，这种友谊都会持续下去。

6)or else表示“否则；要不然”。比如：Hurry up or else you'll be late.快点，否则你就要迟到了。

They can't be coming or else they'd have called.他们不会来，不然他们就打电话了。You are either a total genius or else you must be totally crazy.你要么是个纯粹的天才，要不然你准是完全疯了。