They often offer a real alternative to the common and regular way of thinking.

相比普通和常规的思维方式，他们常能给出完全不同的替代方案。

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Tribe is a community of alternative communities that Bridges the gap between mainstream thinking and the alternative world.

Tribe是一个另类群体的社团，他们消除了主流思维与另类世界的代沟。

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Take a simple example, if I hit heavy delays driving to work then it sets me thinking about alternative routes and even other means of getting to work.

举一个简单的例子，如果我在开车上班途中碰到了严重堵车，我会考虑换一条路径，甚至用其他方式赶到办公室。

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There are alternative ways of thinking.

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An alternative ending to this wishful-thinking, Edgar Allan Poe-esque scenario has Jimbo leaving the planet entirely, overcoming his xenophobia to allow himself to be rescued by space aliens.

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Not only does it provide a rapid canter through an emerging policy alternative that may soon be the mainstream thinking among Tory backbenchers, but it also maps out the dangerous ideological crosscurrents in which policies, and indeed governments, can easily flounder.

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