altern

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Acting by turns; alternate. not-comparable,obsolete
    — And God made two great lights, great for thir use / To Man, the greater to have rule by day, / The less by night, alterne ; and made the stars, / And set them in the firmament of Heaven / To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day / In their vicissitude, and rule the night, / And light from darkness to divide. […]

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Borrowed from Latin alternus (“every other, alternate”).
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