Alternate bearing is a widespread problem for growers of citrus and other fruit trees.

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What we don't get here is a sense of whether there really is an alternate secret postal system that serves a sort of underground of private networks.

在这里我们所不明白的是，是否真的存在一个,提供地下的,私密的通信服务的，秘密邮政系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is very different from Nabokov's idea of embodiment as a kind of alternate or rival creativity.

这和Nabokov的想法迥然不同,他讲具体化视为一种替代物或者是竞争的创造性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'd actually like to explore a slightly alternate possibility of just taking the one of the five who needs an organ who dies first and using their four healthy organs to save the other four.

其实我想知道可否稍微变通一下,就是选择五人中最先死的那人,利用他的器官来救其他四人。

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