So a slightly alternative use of the conditional tense, here.

因此，这里稍微替代了条件时态的使用。

Many milk alternatives use significantly less energy, land and less water to produce so they have a much lower environmental impact than animal milk.

许多牛奶替代品生产所用的能源，土地和水少得多，因此与动物奶相比，它们对环境的影响要低得多。

A British study took these findings one step further, asking subjects to creative challenge (coming up with a list of alternative uses for a household item) .

一项英国的研究将这些发现向前推进了一步，该研究要求受试者完成创造性的挑战（提出某一家用物品的一系列其他用途）。

A British study took these findings one step further, asking subjects to complete a creative challenge (coming up with a list of alternative uses for a household item).

英国的一项研究将这些发现更进一步，要求受试者完成一项创造性挑战（提出一份家居用品的替代用途清单）。

One way the city can try to recoup some of those costs and prevent a so-called doom loop is to convert some of that office space into alternative use, like apartment buildings.

市政府可以尝试收回部分成本，防止出现所谓的厄运循环，其中一个方法就是改造部分写字楼用于其他用途，例如改成公寓楼。

One firm, Papersave, currently sells this to farmers as a soil conditioner, though this practice will soon be banned because of transport costs and the smell, and the company is looking into the possibility of alternative uses.

目前，一家叫Papersave的公司将这些纸卖给农民作土壤改良剂，但是这种方式很快就由于运输成本和自身气味而被禁止，公司正在寻找其他用途。