alternative
alternative 英 [ɔ:lˈtɜ:nətɪv] 美 [ɔlˈtɜrnətɪv]
adj. 可选的，可替换的 n. 可供选择的事物
名词复数:alternatives
- When you're facing a fork in the road, you have two possibilities, or alternatives. You could take the left fork and see where it leads, or you could choose the path that goes to the right.
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- adj. 可选的，可替换的
- n. 可供选择的事物
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1. We had no alternative but to fire Gibson.
我们别无他法，只有辞退吉布森。
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2. There is a vegetarian alternative on the menu every day.
每天的菜单上另有素食餐点。
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3. an alternative method of doing sth
做某事的其他方法
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4. Do you have an alternative solution?
你有没有别的解决办法？
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5. alternative energy
替代能源（指太阳能、风能、水能等）
- alternative (adj.) 1580s, "offering one or the other of two," from Medieval Latin alternativus, from Latin alternatus, past participle of alternare "do one thing and then another, do by turns," from alternus "one after the other, alternate, in turns, reciprocal," from alter "the other" (see alter). Meaning "purporting to be a superior choice to what is in general use" was current by 1970 (earliest reference is to the media); in popular music, by 1984 in reference to pirate radio. Alternative energy is from 1975. Related: Alternatively.
- alternative (n.) 1620s, in rhetoric, "proposition involving two statements, the acceptance of one implying the rejection of the other," from noun use of Medieval Latin alternativus "do one thing and then another, do by turns," from Latin alternus "one after the other, alternate, in turns, reciprocal," from alter "the other" (see alter). Of courses of action, from 1814. Of objects, etc., "the other of two which may be chosen," by 1836.
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