Alternatively, it suggests life from Earth may have landed on other planets or moons on boulders blasted off Earth in an impact, though whether it could survive on those bodies is another matter.

另外，这还表明地球上的生命可能会经由撞击产生的碎屑降落到其他行星或者卫星，当然它们能否在这些天体上生存就是另一回事了。

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Alternatively (or in addition) it may be that intelligence is one manifestation of an underlying, genetically based healthiness.

另一个理解(或者说另外)则是，智力是一种潜在的以及基因健康状态的表现。

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It is alternatively possible you will change your mind about taking a job you want as you get closer, or if you feel the pay isn't enough to keep you interested, you may pass on the opportunity.

这里有两个选择，一是，你可能对于一份近在咫尺的你想要的工作做出回绝，或者如果你觉得薪酬不够，你不感兴趣了，你会放弃这个机会。

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You may take on a long-term project and then die before you've been able to complete it; or alternatively, you may peak too soon and then continue to stick around in an anti-climactic way.

你可能承担了一个长期的项目,然后在你能完成之前就死了，或者，你可能太快达到人生高峰,然后继续在平淡中徘徊。

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It may be that nobody thought of it or alternatively there might not have been a city official keen to sign one.

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Alternatively, it may simply cease to exist as an entity, or perhaps cease even to be part of the Free World.

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