Gradation
[grə'deɪʃ(ə)n] or [grə'deʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of arranging in grades.
(noun.) relative position in a graded series; 'always a step behind'; 'subtle gradations in color'; 'keep in step with the fashions'.
海勒姆手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
(n.) The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
(n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
(n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
(n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
(v. t.) To form with gradations.
整理:默尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Regular progress (step by step), regular progression.
校對:迈克尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stage, tier, degree, rank, standing, graduation, ordination, arrangement,precedency
ANT:Equality, uniformity, fraternity, abruptness, saltation
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例句/造句/用法:
- Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I have attempted to show how much light the principle of gradation throws on the admirable architectural powers of the hive-bee. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Round the sides of his head--without the slightest gradation of grey to break the force of the extraordinary contrast--it had turned completely white. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thus every gradation, from an ordinary fixed spine to a fixed pedicellariae, would be of service. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In fishes and reptiles, as Owen has remarked, The range of gradation of dioptric structures is very great. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It is surprising in how many curious ways this gradation can be shown; but only the barest outline of the facts can here be given. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Of various admirals I could tell you a great deal: of them and their flags, and the gradation of their pay, and their bickerings and jealousies. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Let us look to the great principle of gradation, and see whether Nature does not reveal to us her method of work. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In the different species of geospiza there is a perfect gradation in the size of the beaks, only to be appreciated by seeing the specimens or their ill ustrations. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The plate shows all gradations of intensity--the tidy is dark, the black tie is light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And all these gradations can be actually traced. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- That is to say, that the color changes imperceptibly in subtle gradations of light and shade. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Many subsequent improvements have been made, one type of which employs a succession of rolls which act in pairs on the grain one after the other and reduce it by successive gradations. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The _nothing_ of conversation has its gradations, I hope, as well as the _never_. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Gradations of structure, with each stage beneficial to a changing species, will be favoured only under certain peculiar conditions. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He was so old and his face was very wrinkled, so that a smile used so many lines that all gradations were lost. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The gradations from leaf-climbers to tendril bearers are wonderfully close, and certain plants may be differently placed in either class. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- So that I think there is little in the advice of making those changes by easy gradations. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We should be extremely cautious in concluding that an organ could not have been formed by transitional gradations of some kind. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
編輯:尼特