Alternation
[,ɔːltə'neɪʃən] or [,ɔltɚ'neʃən]
解释:
(noun.) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; 'a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes'.
埃尔希编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
(n.) Permutation.
(n.) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
校对:凯尔西
同义词及近义词：
n. Reciprocation, interchange.
编辑:罗比
例句:
- Their development demands continuous alternation and readjustment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Miss Crawford was soon to leave Mansfield, and on this circumstance the no and the yes had been very recently in alternation. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- What happens is that since neither of these things is persistently possible, we get a compromise and an alternation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The alternations of splendour and misery which these people undergo are very queer to view. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- In the rapid alternations of her temper, her anger was beginning to rise again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- His manner seemed liable to equal alternations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Dark as it was getting, I could still see these changes, though but as mere alternations of light and shade; for colour had faded with the daylight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
校对:菲利斯