Dicţionar englez-român

OTHERWISE

Pronunție (USA): Play  (GB): Play

Traducere în limba română

otherwise I. adverb

1. altfel; altminteri;

go at once, otherwise you’ll miss your train pleacă numaidecât, altfel ai să pierzi trenul;

should it be otherwise în caz contrar;

to think otherwise a crede altceva, a fi de altă părere;

he could not do otherwise than obey n-a putut face altceva decât să asculte;

(fam.) he is not otherwise engaged nu are altceva de făcut;

all people, rich or otherwise toţi oamenii, bogaţi sau săraci;

I should like to stay rather than otherwise aş prefera mai degrabă să rămân decât să plec.

2. altminteri, de altfel, în alte privinţe;

otherwise he is quite honest în alte privinţe e un om foarte cinstit.

3. (jur.) alias, zis şi.

otherwise II. adjectiv

altul;

his answer could not be otherwise răspunsul lui nu putea fi altul.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

However, since you think otherwise, we will let it rest at that.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Otherwise they could not have imagined that I had returned to my rooms.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, I cannot but suppose that whatever there may be to wish otherwise in Dr.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I hope I never shall be otherwise than umble.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It could not be otherwise, for she did not love him.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

But with the sheep-dog it was otherwise.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Very well, he answered quietly: and indeed my head is otherwise occupied than with him: I have my tale to finish.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

And yet the day may come when I would not have it otherwise.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This phenomenon allows Hubble to see galaxies that would otherwise be too small and faint to observe.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)




TE-AR MAI PUTEA INTERESA