| 单词 | modify |
| 释义 | mod·i·fy transitive verb 1. < the proximity of the ocean modifies the temperature — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > < traffic rules were modified to let him pass — Van Wyck Brooks > 2. Scots law 3. a. b. 4. a. < the aeroplane — as it was called for many years before the word was modified to airplane — A.F.Harlow > < represents a type already partly modified by domestication — P.C.Mangelsdorf > b. < the older view that laws modify conduct and that punishment effectively limits crime — Alex Comfort > < the weakening of the geographical factor in social organization must … profoundly modify our attitude toward the meaning of personal relations — Edward Sapir > < have modified my views of conduct to conform with what seem to me the implications of my beliefs — T.S.Eliot > 5. < the equipment was modified to produce locomotives — American Guide Series: Virginia > < a Navy trainer … was modified … for flight study of the system of boundary-layer control by blowing — Report: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics > < starch is modified by heating to produce British gum > intransitive verb Synonyms: see change |
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