The basic flow is a straight line down, while alternative flows are usually the loops going either back or forth.

基本流程是一条向下的直线，然而可选流程可以是向前或向后的循环线。

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Turn down the job offer, in the absence of alternative employment, because it was somehow bad for Greece to have so many public-sector workers earning an OK living?

拒绝这份工作，也没有其他工作，因为对于希腊来说，有那么多为公共部分工作的人赚取还不错的生活待遇这简直太糟了。

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And the purpose of the public option is to make sure that the industry doesn't waste another 15 years - by giving Americans an alternative if private insurers fall down on the job.

而公共选择权的目的就是为了确保保险业不会再浪费另一个15年——如果私营保险失败了，它还可以给美国人民提供其他的选择。

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth has said if Clinton fails again, he will push for a stripped-down alternative that would focus on industries in which the U.S. has a competitive edge, including information technology.

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Had I waited for the cost of a CT screening to come down, chosen the cheaper X-Ray alternative or just done nothing in the hope that I could save enough money to afford the scan, I would have been dead long before the free market got around to accommodating my personal budgetary issues.

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They also gave passengers the right to an alternative screening -- a pat down.

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