CHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENTCHANGE FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHERa small change that makes someone or something slightly different, or the process of this change 变动,改动
alteration to
If you make alterations to the Windows setup, save the new settings before closing.
如果更改了视窗操作系统的设置,关闭前要保存新的设置。
alteration in
Have you noticed any alteration in the patient’s behaviour?
你有没有注意到病人的行为有什么改变?
minor/major etc alterations
The King’s Arms pub is to undergo extensive alterations.
undergo ... alterations• The scene of many public ceremonies and processionsprior to the Reformation, the churchunderwent many alterations.• The fortunderwent several alterations before it seems to have been systematically demolished early in the second century.• The body has undergone major alterations.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ALTERATION | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤dramatic, extensive, fundamental, major, radical, significant, substantial (especially BrE) 劇烈的變化;大規模的更改;根本性的改動;重大的變動;影響深遠的變化▸➤minor, slight, small, subtle小改動;細小的變動;微妙的變化VERB + ALTERATION➤carry out, do, make進行變動;作改動➤cause引起變化➤undergo經歷變動▸➤need, require需要改動◇The leaflets require no alteration from year to year.這些小冊子不需要每年更改。PREPOSITION➤alteration in在⋯方面的改變◇There will be no alteration in the level of subsidy.補助金的標準將不會改變。➤alteration to對⋯作的改動◇We will have to make a slight alteration to the plans.我們將不得不對這些計劃作小小的改動。