or else

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishor elseor elsespoken a) used to say that there will be a bad result if someone does not do something Hurry up or else we’ll miss the train. b) used to say what another possibility might be The salesman will reduce the price or else include free insurance. c) used to threaten someone Hand over the money, or else! → elseExamples from the Corpusor 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 bolder innovation comes direct by rescript from the emperor or 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 created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect 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.

单词	or else
释义	or else From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishor elseor elsespoken a) used to say that there will be a bad result if someone does not do something Hurry up or else we’ll miss the train. b) used to say what another possibility might be The salesman will reduce the price or else include free insurance. c) used to threaten someone Hand over the money, or else! → elseExamples from the Corpusor 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 bolder innovation comes direct by rescript from the emperor or 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 created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect 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.
随便看	put right put second etc put show a front put simply etc put some muscle into it put somebody as/among/in etc something put somebody down as something put somebody down for something put somebody in (something) put somebody in a good/bad etc mood put somebody in control/command/charge etc put somebody in mind of somebody/something put somebody in their place put somebody into custody put somebody off (doing) something put somebody off their stride put somebody off their stroke put somebody on a train/plane etc put somebody on the spot put somebody onto somebody/something put somebody out to grass put somebody straight/right put somebody through the mill put somebody to death put somebody to flight