alternatively
I'm going to drop yoga and do aerobics instead.我准备不再练瑜伽而开始做有氧运动。
How on earth could they knock down a lovely old building like that and put a car park there instead?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Replacing and exchanging
alternate
alternatively
bargain something away
behalf
change over
compensation
lieu
make up for something
name
novate
part exchange
shoe
sing
someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom
spare
substitutability
substitutable
substitution
substitutive
succeed

instead | American Dictionary

instead
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ɪnˈsted/
rather than; as an alternative:
If we don’t go to Europe this summer, where would you like to go instead (= what other place would you like to go)?
We went by train instead of by car.

Examples of instead

instead
Another simplificationis used instead, based on the following qualitative argument.
Instead, they appeared on occasion to recompute the phonetic elements, producing a new erroneous version.
The gender switch produces humor, but it does not disrupt or reconfigure gender relations or hierarchies; instead, it temporarily reverses them.
One possible explanation for the differing results may have to do with the fact that we were requesting summary instead of individual patient data.
Instead, important individuals played essential roles, and their talent and authority was reported to be crucial to the building's success.
Instead, comanagement, where both state and users have relative roles to play, has been considered.
Instead, we were told to put our faith in the market.
Instead, however, the author seems to have gone out of his way to avoid telling any such story.
Instead, the story is of group elites and long-term trends, with a different focus and different tempo.
The approach towards accurate functionals has instead been to study model systems for which very accurate functionals can be derived.
A third weakness in presentation is that information is sometimes given diffusely instead of in one section or chapter, thereby reducing effective communication of ideas.
Instead, he was saying that the structural properties of the different languages have this effect.
Thus, instead of being a mere system description, an appropriately constructed dynamic model can greatly facilitate and guide the control design.
This should rather have strengthened their original support for the tax, instead of turning them against it.
We use an equivalence on trees instead of worrying about representation.
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