alternative
美 [ɔlˈtɜrnətɪv] 
英 [ɔːlˈtɜː(r)nətɪv]
- adj.可供替代的；非传统的；另类的
- n.可供选择的事物
- 网络替换物；非主流；两者挑一的
词形变化
复数：alternatives 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | 可供选择的事物a thing that you can choose to do or have out of two or more possibilities |
| You can be paid in cash weekly or by cheque monthly; those are the two alternatives. 你的工资可以按周以现金支取，或按月以支票支取。二者可选其一。 |
| We had no alternative but to fire Gibson. 我们别无他法，只有辞退吉布森。 |
| There is a vegetarian alternative on the menu every day. 每天的菜单上另有素食餐点。 |
1. | 可供替代的that can be used instead of sth else |
| an alternative method of doing sth 做某事的其他方法 |
| Do you have an alternative solution? 你有没有别的解决办法？ |
2. | 非传统的；另类的different from the usual or traditional way in which sth is done |
| alternative comedy/lifestyles/values 非传统喜剧╱生活方式╱价值观 |
| alternative energy(= electricity or power that is produced using the energy from the sun, wind, water, etc.) 替代能源（指太阳能、风能、水能等） |
英汉解释
adj. | |
n. | 1. 二者之一,二中选一;交替;可采用的方法;替换物 |
英英解释
例句
The remaining alternative is to use a service locator, make it a singleton, but remove the reference cache.
剩下的一个选择是使用服务定位器使用集合的方式，但是要去除引用缓存。
of water in a torrent, he had no alternative but to be swept along by the multitude around him, his feet barely touching the ground.
他仿佛急流里的一滴水滴，没有回旋转侧的余地，只有顺着大众的势，脚不点地地走。
they lack alternative options , so a disagreement or funding problem is all that it takes for them to be sent back to china.
他们别无选择，所以只要出现被拒或者资金缺乏的问题，他们就会被遣送回中国。
So saying it cannot occur just because the alternative is too bad to fathom, I think, is a bit too easy to say.
所以说它不会发生仅仅是因为抉择太难参透，我想，说说容易而已。
Millions of others have been removed from the public school system and enrolled in some sort of alternative education, including Montessori.
还有数百万名从公立学校退出，在其他类型的教育机构报名，包括蒙台梭利。
The final challenge for VW is trying to get Chinese consumers interested in its alternative energy vehicles.
大众的最后一个挑战，是尝试引发中国消费者对替代能源汽车的兴趣。
If, as seems plausible, the alternative is years of deflation and depression, some countries might choose to leave.
如果另一种选择是多年的通缩和萧条——目前存在这种可能性——一些国家或许会选择离开。
Dell Inc is getting a marketing makeover, trying to shed its image as a cheaper alternative to rivals, Reuters reported Thursday.
据路透社21日报道，全球第二大个人电脑制造商戴尔公司正在进行一场营销策略大调整，试图摆脱其作为竞争对手廉价替代品的形象。
In the case of risk, rationality is usually defined as the choice of that alternative for which the expected utility is greatest.
而在风险的情况下，理性通常被定义为选择那种期望效用最大的选项。
Our ships are in position to provide a beneficent galactic alternative to the plans the dark has for you.
我们的飞船已就位，已经为了你们提供一个仁慈的来自银河的二选一选择给黑暗者们。
But Nessar says that rather than joining with the coalition's agenda, Russia will try to balance it out if not provide an alternative to it.
但是，纳塞尔称，俄罗斯不会参加联合议程，会尝试权衡利益，如果是在别无选择的情况下。
Mr Medvedev may never have been a real alternative to Mr Putin, but he held out the faint possibility of a transition of power.
也许梅德韦杰夫从来就不是普京真正意义上的替代者，但他毕竟给出了一丝权利转移的希望。
Their different economic systems offered alternative paths to prosperity. But the Great Depression continued to cast its long shadow.
他们不同的经济体制为繁荣提供了可供选择的道路，但是仍继续长期处在大萧条的阴影之下。
Germany, in the grip of a massive export slump, firmly believes it has no alternative to export-led growth.
面临出口急剧下降的局面，德国坚定地认为除了出口拉动的增长之外别无选择。
We've been production-ready for well over a year, and no other alternative implementation has reached that milestone yet.
我们一年前就有了商业产品，没有其他的实现能达到这个里程碑。
At a time when there was little alternative art resources and pirate dvd just began to overflow, we didn't think of author right.
在那个资源仍旧相当匮乏，盗版要开始泛滥的年代，我们没有想到这些，许多事情做的都不符合原则。
If you don't pay the debt, I'm afraid you leave me with little alternative but to put the matter in the hands of our solicitors.
如果您不偿还债务，恐怕我没有别的选择，只好把此事交给我们的律师了。
The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "
目标不是要成为化石燃料的替代，而是“要成为一个可行的替代品。”
Eg. I'm afraid if this noise goes on, I shall have no alternative but to call the police.
如果吵闹声继续下去，我恐怕就只好叫警察了。
Prosecco, or sparkling wine from Italy, is often considered the cheap alternative to Champagne.
rosecco酒就是意大利的起泡酒，经常被看作是法国香槟的廉价替代品。
As she was no horsewoman, walking was her only alternative.
她既然不会骑马，唯一的办法便只有步行。
Community service is seen as the only credible alternative to imprisonment.
除监禁外，社区劳动被看作是唯一可接受的选择。
Social contract theory developed as an alternative world view rejecting notions of Divine Law and religious conceptions of sovereignty.
社会契约论是作为同神律（DivineLaw）观念和宗教主教主权观念相对立的世界观而发展起来的。
"Of course you know the alternative, " replied the visitor, coolly.
“当然你知道两者之间的抉择，”来访者冷冷地说。
For the moment there seemed no alternative.
但在此期间，则别无他途。
The general solution of the simple harmonic equation (3. 1) can therefore be expressed in the following alternative forms.
因此简谐运动方程（3.1）的通解可用下列任一的形式表示。
For nearly an hour the debate continued, with more opposition surfacing and alternative ideas being put forward.
辩论继续了将近一个小时，又提出了一些反对意见和替代方案。
An alternative approach to alcohols having two identical R groups(q)is to disconnect both at once.
另一可供选用的，通向具有两个等同R基的醇（q）的办法是，将这两个R基一举全都切开。
This difference can be viewed in several alternative ways.
可以用几种不同的方式来考察这个差别。
Alternative medicine has been gaining credence recently.
近来替代疗法越来越得到大众的认可。
We had no alternative but to fire Gibson.
我们别无他法，只有辞退吉布森。
The alternative of surrender is death.
不投降即死。
There is a vegetarian alternative on the menu every day.
每天的菜单上另有素食餐点。
His assignment was to see whether light might be an alternative to microwaves as a vehicle for transmitting information over long distances.
他的工作任务是探究光是否可能代替微波作为长距离传输信息的工具。
After 150 years of colonial enforcement, when you back people into a corner there is only one alternative.
经过了150年的殖民压迫当你把人民逼至角落那只有一种选择。
She had no alternative but to ask for a few days' leave.
实在不得已，她只好请几天假。
As an alternative Cook said he would also like to train as a pharmacist.
作为人生的备选目标，库克表示也愿意学习成为一名药剂师。
Today his Craig's List is a free alternative to the classified ads that have been a major source of earnings for newspapers.
今天他所创办的克雷格清单网站已经取代报纸，成为一个大型的免费分类广告网。分类广告一直是各大报纸的主要收入来源。
But the nuclear industry needs to do more than build a few plants a year to be a true low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
但是，要想成为真正的低碳的化石能源替代品，核能行业必须在建造核电站以外做更多的工作。
It seems to be an alternative choice for one-stage reconstruction of major pulp defect.
这是一期修复大面积指腹缺损的可选方法。
His alternative is to hold out for "convertible debt" that would not immediately be priced.
他另一个选择是“可转换债券”，这种方式不需要马上确定投资价格。
It has been used as an alternative of gasoline, improvers for octane number and oxygen content in gasoline.
在国外曾以汽油替代物、辛烷值改进剂和增加汽油氧含量三大作用添加到汽油中。
I also like a bit of alternative music , and a little rock music .
我也蛮喜欢另类音乐及摇滚乐。
"We will have to accept that the alternative to what's on the table is not the perfect deal but no deal at all, " he told the meeting.
他在论坛上表示：“我们不得不承认，替代目前方案的解决方法不是完美的协议，但要强于达不成任何协议。”
The alternative, he added, is to allow things to deteriorate to the point where the whole Zionist project is in jeopardy.
他补充道，另一个办法是让事情恶化，直到整个犹太复国项目陷入危险的地步。
The only problem was that this alternative "audit" bill would essentially have prevented an audit.
唯一的问题是这个可供选择的审计议案本质上是阻止审计的。
TCP seems to be an alternative to iliac crest bone grafting in corrective osteotomies of the distal radius.
结论：磷酸三钙在桡骨远端截骨术中可能是髂骨移植物的一种替代物。
But the speech only confirmed that Obama has no alternative strategic vision to replace the neoconservative fantasies of his predecessor.
但本次演讲只是进一步证明了奥巴马没有别的战略视野可用以取代其前任的新保守派幻想。
The child is so ill that we have no alternative (choice) but to send him to hospital.
孩子病得这样子，我们除了送他到医院以外别无他路。
Alistair Darling, the chancellor, yesterday described the plan as the only viable alternative to full nationalisation of the bank.
英国财政大臣阿里斯代尔-达林（AlistairDarling）昨日称，这项计划是将该行完全国有化之外唯一可行的选择。
How much of your time is spent on developing alternative sources of energy?
贵公司投在开发替代能源方面的精力有多大？
Alternative splicing at donor or acceptor sites located just a few nucleotides apart is widespread in many species.
选择性剪接在捐助或承兑人位于短短核苷酸除了普遍在许多物种。
It is possible that there may be alternative sequences of manufac- turing operations for a product.
生产某件产品时，可能有替代性制造工序。
