Vicissitude
[vɪ'sɪsɪtjuːd;vaɪ-] or [vɪ'sɪsɪtud]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
(noun.) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; 'the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research'.
安娜贝尔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
(n.) Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
爱德华整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Alternation, interchange, regular change, mutual succession.[2]. Variation, mutation, revolution.
丹尼校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Change, alternation, interchange, revolution, mutation, ups_and_downs
ANT:Perpetuity, stability, changelessness, immutability, fixity
埃迪校對
解釋/意思:
n. change from one thing to another: change: revolution.—adjs. Vicissitū′dinary Vicissitū′dinous changeful changeable.
整理:奥蒂斯
例句/造句/用法:
- To know, to grasp a thing intellectually or theoretically, is to be out of the region of vicissitude, chance, and diversity. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Why in the face of hundreds of philosophies wrecked on the rocks of the unexpected do men continue to believe that the intellect can transcend the vicissitudes of experience? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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