| 单词 | adaptation |
| 释义 | adaptation (once / 881 pages) 1n 2n Some people always read the book before seeing the movie adaptation of it: They want to get the real story before it's rewritten for film and imagine what all the characters look like before the wrong actors are chosen to play them. Charles Darwin first used adaptation in 1859 to describe how an organism adapts and changes to become better suited to living in its habitat. Since then, the noun adaptation is often used to describe a change in behavior in response to new or modified surroundings, from learning to outrun a predator to wearing earplugs to block out your noisy neighbors. Or even changing that novel a bit to fit the demands of the big screen. WORD FAMILYadaptation: adaptational, adaptations+/adapt: adaptable, adaptation, adaptative, adapted, adapter, adapting, adaption, adaptive, adaptor, adapts, readapt/adaptability: adaptabilities/adaptable: adaptability, adaptably, unadaptable/adapted: unadapted/adapter: adapters/adaption: adaptions/adaptive: adaptively, nonadaptive/adaptor: adaptors/readapt: readapted, readapting, readapts/unadaptable: unadaptability USAGE EXAMPLESThis channel’s Steinbeck-inspired marathon begins with Elia Kazan’s adaptation of one of Steinbeck’s most beloved novels. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) That total already puts “Fences” in the box office neighborhood of such past play adaptations as “Doubt” and “Closer.” Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Denzel Washington directs and stars in the August Wilson adaptation, with Viola Davis playing a key supporting role. Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) Syn|Hypo|Hyper adaption, adjustment acclimation, acclimatisation, acclimatization adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) dedifferentiationthe loss of specialization in form or function domesticationadaptation to intimate association with human beings differentiation, specialisation, specialization(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms 2n (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light) 2Hypo|Hyper dark adaptation the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours light adaptationthe process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination; the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative adjustment, alteration, modification the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) n a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form the play is an adaptation of a short novel Syn|Hypo|Hyper version modernization a modernized version (as of a play) versificationa metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) piece of writing, writing, written material the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) |
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