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alternative 音标拼音: [ɔlt'ɚnətɪv] a. 两者挑一的,可供选择的
n. C可供选择的事物 两者挑一的,可供选择的 C可供选择的事物 alternative替代; 选择方案 alternative替用 替代 alternative adj 1: serving or used in place of another; " an alternative plan" [ synonym: { alternate}, { alternative}, { substitute}] 2: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; " alternative possibilities were neutrality or war" 3: pertaining to unconventional choices; " an alternative life style" n 1: one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; " what option did I have?"; " there no other alternative"; " my only choice is to refuse" [ synonym: { option}, { alternative}, { choice}] Alternative \ Al* ter" na* tive\, a. [ Cf. F. alternatif.] 1. Offering a choice of two things. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Alternate; reciprocal. [ Obs.] -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster]
Alternative \ Al* ter" na* tive\, n. [ Cf. F. alternative, LL. alternativa.] 1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. [ 1913 Webster] There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one' s choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called { alternatives}. [ 1913 Webster] Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. -- Jowett ( Thucyd.). [ 1913 Webster] 3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. [ 1913 Webster] If this demand is refused the alternative is war. -- Lewis. [ 1913 Webster] With no alternative but death. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. [ 1913 Webster] My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives. -- Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster] 102 Moby Thesaurus words for " alternative": additional, agent, alternate, alternate choice, analogy, another, attainable, backup, change, changeling, choice, comparison, contingency, copy, counterfeit, deputy, different, discretion, discretional, disjunctive, double, druthers, dummy, election, elective, equal, equivalent, ersatz, escape clause, escape hatch, exchange, exchangeable, fake, fill- in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, interchangeable, locum tenens, loophole, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, mock, next best thing, option, optional, optionality, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleasure, possibility, possible choice, preference, pretext, provisional, proxy, relief, replacement, replacing, representative, reserve, reserves, ringer, saving clause, second string, secondary, selection, sign, spare, spares, stand- in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, temporary, tentative, third string, token, understudy, utility, utility player, variant, vicar, vicarious, vice- president, vice- regent, volitional, voluntary, way of escape, way out, will and pleasure
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