alteration
/ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/ 名词 C1中文： 异动
- The act of altering or making different.
- A minor adjustment to clothing, such as hemming or shortening, to make it fit better.
- The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition. · The doctors don't see any alteration in the patient's condition.
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“‘And who is this witness, or rather this enemy?’ asked the count, in a tone in which there was a visible alteration.
The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter of an hour’s _tête-à-tête_ with Mrs.
After waiting at home every morning for a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the visitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and, yet more, the alteration of her manner, would allow Jane to deceive herself no longer.
Collins devoted his mornings to driving him out in his gig, and showing him the country: but when he went away, the whole family returned to their usual employments, and Elizabeth was thankful to find that they did not see more of her cousin by the alteration; for the chief of the time between breakfast and dinner was now passed by him either at work in the garden, or in reading and writing, and looking out of window in his own book room, which fronted the road.
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