Adaptation
[ædəp'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ædæp'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light).
(noun.) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; 'the play is an adaptation of a short novel'.
(noun.) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions).
塞西尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
(n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.
阿琳整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fitness, suitableness, appropriateness, aptness, adaptability, accommodation, harmony.
編輯:苏珊娜
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence
ANT:Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation,mismeasurement
手打:莫尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The discovery may long precede its adaptation in physical form, and both the discovery and adaptation may occur together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This adaptation of the needle to looms has placed ribbons within the reach of the poor as well as the rich girl. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The more tenacious the memory, the richer the supply of image s, the greater the powers of adaptation and survival. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There is no finality in adaptation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This adaptation is attained in various ways. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The practical method of securing the proper and ready adaptation of balances to springs is to place in the rims of the balance a number of small screws having relatively heavy heads. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Adaptation, Mr. Lloyd George admitted, there had to be. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But the degree of adaptation of species to the climates under which they live is often overrated. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- An electric lamp answering certain specific requirements would, indeed, be the key to the situation, but its commercial adaptation required a multifarious variety of apparatus and devices. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Both involve ends consciously entertained and the selection and adaptations of materials and processes designed to effect the desired ends. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The real, like the Platonic Socrates, as we gather from the Memorabilia of Xenophon, was fond of making similar adaptations. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- These adaptations, no doubt, made the new teaching much more understandable and acceptable in Egypt and Syria and the like. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Inventors came forward with adaptations of all the old systems they could think of for the purpose, and with many new ones. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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