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alternatively

/awl-tur-nuh-tiv-lee, al-/US // ɔlˈtɜr nə tɪv li, æl- //

或者,另外,或者说,或者是

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : as another choice or option:At the end of the unit, each group of students writes a book review or, alternatively, acts out a short scene from the book.
    • : in a nonstandard, novel, or unconventional manner or style:We found significant differences between the traditionally and alternatively certified teachers with regard to classroom experience.You are not automatically more creative just because you're in an alternatively decorated meeting room.

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Examples

  • The design, reported in a paper in Nature, is capable of 50 times the performance of state-of-the-art alternative cooling systems, according to the authors.

  • The U-T reports that officials are expected this week to talk about alternative policing models, including unarmed personnel who can respond to non-emergency situations.

  • Apps that offer person-to-person experiences, like tutoring or telehealth, can also use alternative methods of payment beyond in-app purchases.

  • Companies outside China may now feel pressure to reshore manufacturing to home countries or find more suitable low-cost alternatives in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Americas.

  • The alternative is that they would sit in a hospital beyond medical necessity.

  • Sudden peace, buoyancy, contentment, or alternatively sorrow or physical pain.

  • Alternatively, there is an informal proposal to set up a special inquiry into atrocities in Syria.

  • Or, alternatively, we could run away scot-free down Fifth Avenue and pause now and then to inseminate someone.

  • Or, alternatively, why should we think that the way the state has currently determined that question is the correct one?

  • Alternatively, Paul could just coast to an easy senate reelection and enjoy life on the 2016 sidelines.

  • Alternatively mesta—curds; the usual form of dairy produce hereabouts—identical with Jaels Butter in a lordly dish.

  • Ellan or Hellan was alternatively entitled Hellas, and in Greek the word allos meant “the one”.

  • There is not a Day but some Assembly is held here at one House or another alternatively.

  • The name of the fat lad, known alternatively as Nick/Buster, and Bumpus, has been retained as in the original.

  • It was alternatively destroyed and rebuilt several times till its last reconstruction in 1853.