alteration

英 [ˌɔːltəˈreɪʃn]

美 [ˌɔːltəˈreɪʃn]

n.  改变; 变化; 更改; 改动

复数：alterations　

CET6TOEFLTEM8医学

BNC.4349 / COCA.9007

牛津词典

noun

• 改变；变化
  a change to sth that makes it different
  1. major/minor alterations
     大 / 小改变
  2. They are making some alterations to the house.
     他们对这栋房子在做一些改动。
  3. an alteration in the baby's heartbeat
     这婴儿心搏的变化
• 改变；更改；改动
  the act of making a change to sth
  1. The dress will not need much alteration.
     这件衣服不需大改。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 改变；变更
  Analterationis a change in or to something.
  1. Making some simple alterations to your diet will make you feel fitter...
     对日常饮食做些简单的调整就会让你身体更健康。
  2. The structural alterations made to the house were planned with Gail's help.
     对房屋结构调整的规划是在盖尔的帮助下完成的。
• N-UNCOUNT 更改；改动
  Thealterationof something is the process of changing it.
  1. Her jacket was at the boutique waiting for alteration.
     她的短上衣放在时装店里，要做些改动。

英英释义

noun

• the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
  Synonym:modificationadjustment
• the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
  1. it would require a drastic revision of his opinion
  Synonym:revision
• an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
  1. the change was intended to increase sales
  2. this storm is certainly a change for the worse
  3. the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago
  Synonym:changemodification

双语例句

• Cancergrams: CK11 Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis: Macromolecular Alteration and Repair.
  CK11致癌机制：大分子变更和修复。
• Alteration of cell cycle and apoptosis rate was defected by flow cytometry.
  流式细胞技术检测细胞周期与凋亡率的变化；
• Besides, the alteration anomalies were extracted from ETM remote sensing data for this region.
  并利用遥感手段，采用ETM数据，提取了该地区的蚀变异常信息。
• Any alteration to DNA that can potentially result in a change in the function of one or more genes.
  任何有潜在性的会导致一个或更多基因的功能变化的DNA的改变。
• An indefinite alteration had come over his whole person and manner.
  他整个的人和态度已经有了一种说不出的变化。
• The alteration of industrial structure is an important factor that affects economic development.
  摘要产业结构变动是影响经济发展的重要因素。
• The structural alterations made to the house were planned with Gail's help.
  对房屋结构调整的规划是在盖尔的帮助下完成的。
• Light reveals the subtle alteration of things, the sly or calamitous impermanence or mortal life.
  事物的细微变动，人生的狡猾，倏忽无常，一一都在光中显露出来。
• The degree to which the human alters the world is consistent and simultaneous with the alteration of human himself.
  人对现实对象的改造程度与在对现实对象的改造中对自身改造的程度是一致的。
• The unwelcome alteration in their circumstances was after all not altogether without its compensations.
  他们生活中这一点不如意的变化毕竟还不是完全没有好的一面。