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adjust 中文

EN[əˈdʒʌst]
调整, 调节, 校正

    Definition of adjust in English Dictionary

  • 动词 (Verb)SGadjustsPRadjustingPT, PPadjusted
    1. (transitive) To modify.
      1. 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.
    2. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
      1. 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.
    3. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
      1. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
        1. Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.   She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness. ‎
    4. 更多范例
      1. 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. ‎
      2. 用于句首
        • Adjust the feet if you can teeter the washing machine.
      3. 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.
    • 词类阶层 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
      1. 动词
        • 不及物动词
          • 及物动词
        相关连结:
        1. en adjustment
        2. en adjustable
        3. en adjusts
        4. en adjusted
        5. en adjuster
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        Meaning of adjust for the defined word.

        在语法上,这个单字"adjust"是一个动词,更具体地来说,是一个不及物动词和一个及物动词
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