■ otherwise

1) 这个副词除了一般词典所指出的“采取别样”与“否则”的意义外，有时候还表示“如果不是采取当前采取的新做法（或者不发生当前的新情况）就会如何”，也就是“保持原先的状态或做法就会如何”，简化来说，就是相当于中文的“本来会如何”。

• In a fight, the otherwise friendly neighbor pounds his head with a brick.在打斗中，本来很友好的邻居竟然拿砖头打了他的脑袋。
• The drug would save at least some babies and mothers from their otherwise terrible fate.该药物将起码能够拯救一些婴儿和母亲摆脱他们那种本来很可怕的命运。
• Take depression. It at least doubles an otherwise healthy person's heart-attack risk ... (Newsweek, Oct. 2, 2005, p.51)就拿忧郁症来说，它起码使得一个本来很健康的人心脏病发作的风险提高一倍…
• The new medicine saved me from an illness which might otherwise have been hopeless.新的药物治好了我的一场本来会毫无希望治好的病。
• ... and even otherwise supportive scientists argued that the researchers should not have gone public until they had truly nailed medical cloning's ultimate prize: genetically customized replacement cells. (US News & World Report, December 10, 2001, p.56)…甚至本来采取支持态度的科学家也声称，研究者一定要等到他们真正拿到医学克隆的最终大奖，即基因单个复制的替换细胞，才可以公布研究成果。
• It is true there was that little incident in Paris at the end of his trip to France which took some of the shine off an otherwise successful visit.的确，他的法国之行，尾声时在巴黎出了一件小事故，使得这次本来很成功的访问有所逊色。
• They exercise a disproportionate influence on our policy, forcing our national leaders to give uncompromising attention to something that would otherwise affect us little. (The Daily Gazette, Aug. 2, 2006)他们对我们的政策起着大得离奇的影响，迫使我们的全国性领导人对一些本来同我们没多大关系的事情纠缠不休。
• The tropical environment seemed to be a parasitic power that by its own demanding nature seemed capable of sapping an otherwise healthy person's strength.热带的环境，像是一股寄生虫似的势力，它固有的苛刻性质，好像在破坏着一个本来健康的人的体力。

2) 但是 otherwise 往往仍然保持“另有不同”的意义，其“不同”的对应对象，视具体情况而异。

• The program must be reviewed and updated quarterly unless otherwise required by law.除非法律另有要求，该项目应每一季度修订更新。
• Data in thousand metric tons, unless otherwise noted.除非另有标明，所有数据均以千公吨为计算单位。
• This use of the word is now common in clothing advertisements and catalogs but is otherwise rare.该单词的这种用法，现已普遍见诸成衣广告与产品目录，但在他处仍然罕见（这里的 otherwise 代替了副词 elsewhere）。

有时候甚至是对这个对象的否定。

• ... the stability or otherwise of this resolved and obstinate war Government... (Sir Winston Churchill, The Unrelenting Struggle)…这个坚定顽强的战时政府的稳定与否…（这里的 otherwise 简直代替了名词 instability）
• ... we are shown portraits, prints, and drawings, contemporary and otherwise. (Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 27, 1971)…我们看到了一些肖像、印张、画片，有现代的，有从前的（这里的 otherwise 代替了形容词 not contemporary）。