Adjustment
[ə'dʒʌs(t)m(ə)nt] or [ə'dʒʌstmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of adjusting something to match a standard.
(noun.) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.
整理:蒂娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
(n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
(n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.
整理:斯特拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights.[2]. Regulation, setting, putting right.[3]. Settlement, reconciliation, pacification.[4]. Fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable.
校對:朗达
例句/造句/用法:
- Because, there is always such a thing as an adjustment of affairs, in the case of people of any standing at all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- By this means the instrument suits all eyes, without requiring adjustment, and the field of view is increased. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But it is essential that adjustment be understood in its active sense of control of means for achieving ends. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Interaction with things may form habits of external adjustment. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The problem is to find some social adjustment for all the special interests of a nation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Genetic psychology attempts to trace the development of mind as a mea ns of adjustment. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He did what he could in its adjustment on the couch, but the best that he could do was to cover it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Of this device Mr. Edison remarks: Together we took press for several nights, my companion keeping the apparatus in adjustment and I copying. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Woodrow Wilson's is an elegant and highly refined intellect, nicely balanced and capable of fine adjustment. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The power of adjustment in general decreases with age. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He must be an artist, nobody else could have such fine adjustment and singleness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The improvement covered the adjustment of the thickness of the metal at the breech of the gun to the varying pressure strains along the bore. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The adjustment of the muscles is so quick and unconscious that we normally do not experience any difficulty in changing our range of view. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Frequent tuning is necessary, because the fine adjustments are easily disturbed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Then it became evident that the destruction of confidence in Russia had gone too far for any such adjustments. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This means, in the second place, that this enduring adjustment supplies the background upon which are made specific adjustments, as occasion arises. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The acute economic clashes of the earlier period had been mitigated by rough adjustments. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Forty-one distinct inventions relating to the phonograph, covering various forms of recorders, arrangement of parts, making of records, shaving tool, adjustments, etc. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
整理:彼得