alternative use

基本解释

Because they have an alternative use, of course.
儅然是因爲它們的日常性用途。
Until recently, however, Silicon Valley did not take much interest in the alternative use of its principal raw material.
然而，直到近幾年，矽穀（電子科技産業中心）才開始對這種基礎天然物質的其他用途産生興趣。
The word “opportunity” in “opportunity cost” is actually redundant. The cost of using something is already the value of the highest-valued alternative use.
“機會”這個詞在“機會成本”這個詞組中實際上多餘的，因爲我們說到使用一個東西的成本時，就是指這個東西價值最高的其它用途的價值。

"And,that is a very worrisome thing. The alternative,however,is even worse, which is,if we do not use them, then we definitely know that we are not going to be getting any assistance out there,"
It is--at least, it puts itself out there as a candidate to be an alternative term that one might use if one got tired of saying "irony" or "paradox."
如果“諷刺“，“悖論“一類的詞,用的太多,可以用“朦朧“來替換“
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