otherwise是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 另样， 用别的方法； 在其他方面conj. 要不然，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have be-fallen him: 'Yet,' said he, 'I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.'
-- How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got?
-- The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to take them both with him.
-- They believed no otherwise than that it was the peasant who was saying this, and answered: 'That is what we intend, but first you shall look about you a little down below there,' and they rolled the barrel down into the water.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But fortune disposed otherwise of me.
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
-- However, an unlucky school-boy aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence, that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpkin, but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten, and 117turned out of the room.
-- Upon this imagination, he put several other questions to me, and still received rational answers: no otherwise defective than by a foreign accent, and an imperfect knowledge in the language, with some rustic phrases which I had learned at the farmer's house, and did not suit the polite style of a court.
-- I was not able to lift up the roof of my closet, which otherwise I certainly should have done, and sat on the top of it; where I might at least preserve myself some hours lon-ger, than by being shut up (as I may call it) in the hold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- B., aged twenty-four next birthday, and committed for eighteen months' solitary, had himself said (not that he had ever shown himself particularly worthy of belief) his ruin began, as he was perfectly sure and confident that otherwise he would have been a tip-top moral specimen.
-- He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.
-- 'Why, I have been otherwise engaged, Loo, in the evenings; and in the daytime old Bounderby has been keeping me at it rather.
-- Mrs. Sparsit was too distant to hear a word of their discourse, or even to know that they were speaking softly, otherwise than from the expression of their figures; but what they said was this:'You recollect the man, Mr.
-- 'I am so unhappy, and all that should have made me otherwise is so laid waste, that if I had been bereft of sense to this hour, and instead of being as learned as you think me, had to begin to acquire the simplest truths, I could not want a guide to peace, contentment, honour, all the good of which I am quite devoid, more abjectly than I do.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Otherwise there were no near relatives.
-- That seemed the simplest solution of the otherwise insoluble.
-- Otherwise we could have one made from the one you have.
-- Otherwise he would be lost like an idiot on a moor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So did the old man, otherwise still unchanged in attitude; so, probably, did the old woman in her dimmer part of the room.
-- 'Never begun to think otherwise at all,' said Mrs Flintwinch.
-- That is to say, it may be supposed that he got all he wanted, otherwise with unlimited wealth he would have got it.
-- That from the father mentioned that most unexpectedly finding himself in the novel position of having been disappointed of a remittance from the City on which he had confidently counted, he took up his pen, being restrained by the unhappy circumstance of his incarceration during three-and-twenty years (doubly underlined), from coming himself, as he would otherwise certainly have done took up his pen to entreat Mr Clennam to advance him the sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings upon his I.O.U., which he begged to enclose.
-- 'How can I be otherwise than proud of it at any time!Pray give it to me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and em-ployed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.
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