| 单词 | alternate |
| 释义 | Word Frequency alternateverb (ˈɔːltəˌneɪt) 1. (often foll by with) to occur or cause to occur successively or by turns day and night alternate 2. (intransitive; often foll by between) to swing repeatedly from one condition, action, etc, to another he alternates between success and failure 3. (transitive) to interchange regularly or in succession 4. (intransitive) (of an electric current, voltage, etc) to reverse direction or sign at regular intervals, usually sinusoidally, the instantaneous value varying continuously 5. (intransitive; often foll by for) theatre to understudy another actor or actress adjective (ɔːlˈtɜːnɪt) 6. occurring by turns alternate feelings of love and hate 7. every other or second one of a series he came to work on alternate days 8. being a second or further choice; alternative alternate director 9. botany a. (of leaves, flowers, etc) arranged singly at different heights on either side of the stem b. (of parts of a flower) arranged opposite the spaces between other parts Compare opposite (sense 4)noun (ˈɔːltənɪt, ɔːlˈtɜːnɪt) 10. US and Canadian a person who substitutes for another in his or her absence; stand-in Word origin C16: from Latin alternāre to do one thing and then another, from alternus one after the other, from alter other |
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