| 单词 | transition |
| 释义 | tran·si·tion I. 1. a. < in what shadowy spot … does the transition from the dead to the quick take place — Treasury of Science > < the transition from childhood to adulthood > < the abrupt transition of her features from assured pride to ludicrous astonishment and alarm — Arnold Bennett > < that evening at the time of transition in the sky — Ethel Wilson > < here guided missiles can pass through a complete sea-land transition — J.C.Waugh > < an age of transition and flux > b. < the first phase of the movement was more in the nature of a transition than a rebellion — Bernard Smith > < the transition of American civilization from agricultural to urban — N.B.Fagin > < a transition from native bronze to iron artifacts took place … under the influence of cultural borrowings — R.W.Murray > < the transition of early English architecture > < a transition … from the inorganic to the organic, from the inanimate to the living — W.R.Inge > 2. a. < having told all her griefs … was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin — Jane Austen > specifically < has a bleakly ungraceful habit of making his transitions in the form of a question as a topic sentence — B.H.Bronson > b. (1) (2) (3) c. < uses an onstage narrator who streamlines the transition between scenes — Time > 3. II. < the Transition zone between the Boreal and Australian zones of No. America > III. IV. < had a difficult time transitioning from a minority to a majority — George Pataki > |
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