it cannot be otherwise/how can it be otherwise?DIFFERENT formal used to say that it is impossible for something to be different from the way it is 不可能是别的/怎么可能会是别的? Life in the military is hard – how can it be otherwise? 军队生活是艰苦的,怎么可能不艰苦呢?
→ it cannot be otherwise/how can it be otherwise? at otherwise(5)