ALCHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENTable to keep changing or to do many things 多变的,变化多端的
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protean• It may be that to choose is to distort so protean an entity.• It characteristically occurs many years after the primaryinfection and has proteanmanifestations in addition to the gait ataxia.• Consistent with the protean nature of migraine, there are many exceptions to this generalization.• The Mac creators are emblematic of a new kind of artistspawned by the protean nature of the computer.• The bibliography of Sir Anthony Caro can hardly keep pace with his proteanoutput.• Even in its protean state, however, it would make the business of feeding off her protracted and tiring.• an actor's proteantalents• Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.
Originprotean
(1500-1600)Proteus ancient Greek sea god who could change shape