Transitional
[træn'zɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l;-'sɪʃ-] or [træn'zɪʃənl]
解释:
(adj.) of or relating to or characterized by transition; 'adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood' .
亚伯整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
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同义词及近义词：
a. Transitionary.
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例句:
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- So that the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- But all of these operations are conceived to be merely transitional; they lack meaning on their own account. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- One, namely, the distinctness of specific forms and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- We should be extremely cautious in concluding that an organ could not have been formed by transitional gradations of some kind. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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