adjust 中文
EN[əˈdʒʌst]动调整, 调节, 校正
- 动词 (Verb)SGadjustsPRadjustingPT, PPadjusted
- (transitive) To modify.
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
- (transitive) To modify.
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- 用于句中
- BEI was neutralized by adding sodiumthiosulphate to the mixture, and the pH was adjusted to be within the range of 7.4–7.65 as described above.
- to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
- Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
- 用于句首
- Adjust the feet if you can teeter the washing machine.
- 用于句尾
- If the burner is underfiring, the nozzle may need to be changed or the pressure at the outlet of the fuel pump may need to be adjusted.
- 用于句中
Definition of adjust in English Dictionary
- 词类阶层 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
- 动词
- 不及物动词
- 及物动词
- 不及物动词
- 动词
- en adjustment
- en adjustable
- en adjusts
- en adjusted
- en adjuster
资料来源: 维基词典