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Adjustment Made Make Change Small Making Hem Parents

英语单词 adjustment
英美音标 英 [ə'dʒʌstmənt] 美 [ə'dʒʌstmənt]
中文释义 n.调整;调节
英语例句 (1) I've made a few minor adjustments to the seating plan.
(2) The company made an adjustment in my salary.
(3) The adjustment of the interest rate will moderate.
(4) They should make adjustment to the new environment.
(5) Some adjustment of the lens may be necessary.
(6) A small adjustment will equalize the temperature in the two rooms.
(7) The volume adjustment knob on my TV is broken.
中文例句 (1) 我对座次表作了小小的调整。
(2) 公司对我的薪金作了调整。
(3) 利率的调整将会放缓。
(4) 他们应进行调整以适应新环境。
(5) 可能有必要调节一下镜头。
(6) 稍作些调节就会使两间房内的温度相等。
(7) 我电视机上的音量调节开关坏了。
vocabulary简明 The act of making an alteration or modification is an adjustment. If you buy a new pair of jeans, but they are too long, you can make a quick adjustment and hem them, have someone else hem them, or use safety pins.
vocabulary扩展 The process of adapting to your environmental conditions is also called an adjustment. After you leave home for college, both you and your parents will have a period of adjustment. Some people adjust easier to change than others — you may be having a ball going to class, eating cereal for dinner, and making new friends but an adjustment your parents will have to make is that they will need to stop worrying about you.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]调整;校正;校准 An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
  [oft N to/for/in n]
  • Compensation could be made by adjustments to taxation...

    通过调整税收可以作出补偿。

  • Investment is up by 5.7% after adjustment for inflation.

    针对通货膨胀作出调整之后投资上升了5.7%。

  • ...a technician made an adjustment to a smoke machine at the back of the auditorium.

    技工在礼堂后部对烟雾机作了调整。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](行为或思想的)调整,转变 An adjustment is a change in a person's behaviour or thinking.
  [oft N to n]
  • He will have to make major adjustments to his thinking if he is to survive in office.

    要想保住这份工作,他就必须在观念上作出重大的转变。

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