alteration

名词，指改变某物的行为，也指改变后形成的状态或结果。

💡 记忆钩子

把原来的东西想成一件正在被重新调整的衣服：动手改尺寸是 alteration 的“改变行为”，改完后呈现出的新样子或不同状态也是 alteration。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 改变行为

📖 指主动把某物改成不同样子的行为或过程，重点在“正在进行的改动”本身，而不是改动后的结果。

💡 常用“alteration to + 名词”表示对某物的改动，也可以用不可数形式泛指改动这件事。这个词比普通的 change 稍正式，常见于谈论计划、建筑、衣物或文件的修改。中文使用者容易把它只理解成“变化”，但这里通常暗示有人对原有事物进行了调整。

countable uncountable

The alteration to the dress took less than an hour.

这条裙子的修改不到一个小时就完成了。

Any alteration to the schedule must be approved by the manager.

对日程安排的任何改动都必须得到经理批准。
core 改变后的状态或结果

📖 指某物已经改变后的新形式、性质或状况，重点在“现在与原来不同的样子”。这种改变可以通过外表、行为或状况的变化表现出来。

💡 常用“alteration in + 名词”指出发生变化的方面，也可用“an alteration to + 名词”指出被改动的对象。它既能指一次具体的改动，也能泛指某种已经出现的不同状态。不要把它误当成单纯的短暂波动；这里通常有“原状被改变了”的意味。

countable uncountable

We noticed an alteration in his voice during the call.

我们注意到他通话时声音发生了变化。

alterations plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

同义词集: alteration modification adjustment

上位: change 下位: accommodation, adaptation, laxation, loosening, tightening, tune

the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

同义词集: revision alteration

it would require a drastic revision of his opinion

上位: transformation, translation 下位: distraction, metamorphosis, misdirection, modulation, qualification, reorganization, transfiguration

an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; ;

同义词集: change alteration modification

the change was intended to increase sales

this storm is certainly a change for the worse

the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago

上位: happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent 下位: acceleration, birth, break, breakup, chromosomal mutation, conversion, damage, death, decease, deceleration, decrease, deformation, detachment, development, drop-off, easing, expiry, fluctuation, genetic mutation, harm, impairment, increase, lessening, moderation, mutation, nascence, nascency, nativity, play, relief, retardation, revolution, scintillation, separation, shift, shimmer, slowing, sparkling, surprise, transformation, transition, transmutation, twinkle, variation

🌳 词源

源自古法语 alteracion，最终来自中世纪拉丁语 alterātiō；构词上与 alter（改变）和后缀 -ation 有关。

From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō. Morphologically alter + -ation.

🔄 变式

alterations plural

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