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variant n.变体adj.不同的 (1) 音位变体就是音位的语音变异。(2) 这个故事有很多说法。(3) 工作职责与上司的要求不一致。 Words often have variants, spellings that vary from region to region or country to country. The British colour and the American color are variants. When a movie or TV show is remade or casts a new actor — like with the string of James Bonds — you could call those movies variants. Where there are variants, there is variety — things aren't all the same.

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英 ['veəriənt] 美 ['veriənt] (1) Allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme.(2) The story has many variants.(3) Working function is variant from request of boss. A variant is another version of something. You could say chimps and apes and gorillas are variants in the primate family. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]变体；变种；变化形式 A variant of a particular thing is something that has a different form to that thing, although it is related to it.   [usu with supp]The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra...斑驴是一种极美丽的斑马变种。An intriguing variant to pipelines would be to carry the water using the existing system of canals...除用管道外，利用现有的运河系统来输送水也很值得一试。There are so many variant spellings of his name.他的名字有很多不同的拼写形式。

英语单词	variant
英美音标	英 ['veəriənt] 美 ['veriənt]
中文释义	n.变体 adj.不同的
英语例句	(1) Allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme. (2) The story has many variants. (3) Working function is variant from request of boss.
中文例句	(1) 音位变体就是音位的语音变异。 (2) 这个故事有很多说法。 (3) 工作职责与上司的要求不一致。
vocabulary简明	A variant is another version of something. You could say chimps and apes and gorillas are variants in the primate family.
vocabulary扩展	Words often have variants, spellings that vary from region to region or country to country. The British colour and the American color are variants. When a movie or TV show is remade or casts a new actor — like with the string of James Bonds — you could call those movies variants. Where there are variants, there is variety — things aren't all the same.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]变体；变种；变化形式 A variant of a particular thing is something that has a different form to that thing, although it is related to it. [usu with supp] The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra... 斑驴是一种极美丽的斑马变种。 An intriguing variant to pipelines would be to carry the water using the existing system of canals... 除用管道外，利用现有的运河系统来输送水也很值得一试。 There are so many variant spellings of his name. 他的名字有很多不同的拼写形式。

Variant Spellings Region 英 Veəriənt] 美 Veriənt N.变体 Adj.不同的