| 单词 | other |
| 释义 | other (ʌðəʳ ) Word forms: others When other follows the determiner an, it is written as one word: see another. 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A2 You use other to refer to an additional thing or person of the same type as one that has been mentioned or is known about. They were just like any other young couple. The communique gave no other details. Other is also a pronoun. Four crew members were killed, one other was injured. In 1914 he (like so many others) lied about his age so that he could join the war effort. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A2 You use other to indicate that a thing or person is not the one already mentioned, but a different one. The authorities insist that the discussions must not be linked to any other issue. Calls cost 36p per minute cheap rate and 48p per minute at all other times. He would have to accept it; there was no other way. They will then have more money to spend on other things. Other is also a pronoun. This issue, more than any other, has divided her cabinet. Some of these methods will work. Others will not. 3. adjective B1 You use the other to refer to the second of two things or people when the identity of the first is already known or understood, or has already been mentioned. The Captain was at the other end of the room. You deliberately went in the other direction. Half of PML's scientists have first degrees, the other half have PhDs. The other is also a pronoun. Henry was holding a duster in one hand and a kitchen pail in the other. While one of them tried to put his hand in my pocket, the other held me from behind. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ You use other at the end of a list or a group of examples, to refer generally to people or things like the ones just mentioned. The quay will incorporate shops, restaurants and other amenities. Place them in a jam jar, porcelain bowl, or other similar container. Other is also a pronoun. Descartes received his stimulus from the new physics and astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo, and others. 5. adjective A2 You use the other to refer to the rest of the people or things in a group, when you are talking about one particular person or thing. When the other pupils were taken to an exhibition, he was left behind. The others is also a pronoun. Aubrey's on his way here, with the others. 6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1 Other people are people in general, as opposed to yourself or a person you have already mentioned. The suffering of other people appals me. She likes to be with other people. Others means the same as other people. His humour depended on contempt for others. 7. adjective B1 You use other in informal expressions of time such as the other day, the other evening, or the other week to refer to a day, evening, or week in the recent past. I rang her the other day and she said she'd like to come round. The other evening we had a party. 8. among other(s) phrase You use expressions like among other things or among others to indicate that there are several more facts, things, or people like the one or ones mentioned, but that you do not intend to mention them all. [vagueness] He moved to England in 1980 where, among other things, he worked as a journalist. His travels took him to Dublin, among other places. They produce thin sheet steel to be used by the motor car industry, among others. 9. every other day/week/month phrase If something happens, for example, every other day or every other month, there is a day or month when it does not happen between each day or month when it happens. Their food is adequate. It includes meat at least every other day, vegetables and fruit. Now that their children have grown up she joins Paddy in London every other week. 10. every other phrase B1 You use every other to emphasize that you are referring to all the rest of the people or things in a group. [emphasis] The same will apply in every other country. 11. none other than phrase You use none other than and no other than to emphasize the name of a person or thing when something about that person or thing is surprising in a particular situation. [emphasis] It is based on an incident involving none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 12. no/nothing other than phrase You use nothing other than and no other than when you are going to mention a course of action, decision, or description and emphasize that it is the only one possible in the situation. [emphasis] Nothing other than an immediate custodial sentence could be justified. The rebels would not be happy with anything other than the complete removal of the current regime. They have left us with no other choice than to take formal action. 13. or other phrase You use or other in expressions like somehow or other and someone or other to indicate that you cannot or do not want to be more precise about the information that you are giving. [vagueness] I was going to have him called away from the house on some pretext or other. The Foundation is holding a dinner in honour of something or other. Somehow or other he's involved. 14. other than phrase You use other than after a negative statement to say that the person, item, or thing that follows is the only exception to the statement. She makes no reference to any feminist work other than her own. The journey by road to Wolverhampton is not recommended to anyone other than the most experienced cyclist. 15. each other pronoun A2 You use each other when you are saying that each member of a group does something to the others or has a particular connection with the others. We looked at each other in silence. Both sides are willing to make allowances for each other's political sensitivities. Uncle Paul and I hardly know each other. 16. your other half phrase [poss PHR] If you talk about your better half or your other half you mean your wife, your husband, or the person that you live with in a sexual relationship. [informal] I was worried that my career, my children and my other half might become too much to cope with. 17. one after the other phrase B2 If you do something to several things one after the other or one after another, you do it to one, then the next, and so on, with no break between your actions. Sybil ate three biscuits, one after the other. Caroline was trying on one outfit after another. 18. one or other phrase You use one or other to refer to one or more things or people in a group, when it does not matter which particular one or ones are thought of or chosen. One or other of the two women was wrong. [+ of] 19. this, that and the other phrase If you say that you are doing or talking about this and that, or this, that, and the other you mean that you are doing or talking about a variety of things that you do not want to specify. 'And what are you doing now?'—'Oh this and that.' There's always going to be jealous people saying you're doing this, that and the other. 20. in other words phrase B2 You say in other words in order to introduce a different, and usually simpler, explanation or interpretation of something that has just been said. The mobile library services have been reorganised–in other words, they visit fewer places. Collocations: other direction I spent the rest of the week holed up in shame in some deserted little cove miles away in the other direction. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Going in the other direction, moving up the food chain, is much harder if not impossible. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING (2002) But one number that has moved in the other direction is the foul-mouthed chef 's value to the business. Times, Sunday Times (2009) In the other direction, olive groves clothed the hillside above the house, their leaves turning silvery green. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Are we now training bad losers just as international sport moves in the other direction? Times, Sunday Times (2011) At the other end of the performance scale, the javelin is her weakest discipline. Times, Sunday Times (2007) What could be better than a dilapidated traction engine maintenance shed at the other end of their village? Times, Sunday Times (2006) At the other end of the scale are the unskilled workers. Times, Sunday Times (2009) At the other end of the valley, a rainbow made of painted rebar rises and then plunges into the land. 2019 , 'This Outdoor Exhibition Brings Art to a California Desert', Smithsonian Translations: Chinese: 其他的 Japanese: ほかの |
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