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adaptation n.改编；改编成的作品；适应；【心】（感官）适应，适应性变化 (1) 这个故事适合改编拍电影。(2) 我给我儿子买了为儿童改编的莎士比亚剧本。(3) 他很快适应了新的环境。(4) 另一个想法是，艺术是一种对社会的适应。 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.

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英 [ˌædæp'teɪʃn] 美 [ˌædæp'teɪʃn] (1) This story lends itself to film adaptation.(2) I bought my son an adaptation for children of a play by Shakespeare.(3) He made a quick adaptation to the new environment.(4) Another idea is that art is a social adaptation. 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. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]（电影或电视的）改写本，改编本 An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it. ...Branagh's screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth.布拉纳改编自莎士比亚的《亨利五世》的影片2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]适应；作出调整 Adaptation is the act of changing something or changing your behaviour to make it suitable for a new purpose or situation. Most living creatures are capable of adaptation when compelled to do so.大多数生物都能在迫于压力的情况下适应新环境。

英语单词	adaptation
英美音标	英 [ˌædæp'teɪʃn] 美 [ˌædæp'teɪʃn]
中文释义	n.改编；改编成的作品；适应；【心】（感官）适应，适应性变化
英语例句	(1) This story lends itself to film adaptation. (2) I bought my son an adaptation for children of a play by Shakespeare. (3) He made a quick adaptation to the new environment. (4) Another idea is that art is a social adaptation.
中文例句	(1) 这个故事适合改编拍电影。 (2) 我给我儿子买了为儿童改编的莎士比亚剧本。 (3) 他很快适应了新的环境。 (4) 另一个想法是，艺术是一种对社会的适应。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（电影或电视的）改写本，改编本 An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it. ...Branagh's screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth. 布拉纳改编自莎士比亚的《亨利五世》的影片 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]适应；作出调整 Adaptation is the act of changing something or changing your behaviour to make it suitable for a new purpose or situation. Most living creatures are capable of adaptation when compelled to do so. 大多数生物都能在迫于压力的情况下适应新环境。

Adaptation Film Play Changing Story Book Describe Living