adaptation
adaptation 英 [ˌædæpˈteɪʃn] 美 [ˌædæpˈteʃən]
n. 适应；改编
名词复数:adaptations
- Some people always read the book before seeing the movie adaptation of it: They want to get the real story before it's rewritten for film and imagine what all the characters look like before the wrong actors are chosen to play them.
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- n. 适应；改编
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1. the adaptation of desert species to the hot conditions
沙漠物种对炎热环境的适应
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2. social adaption
社会适应
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3. film adaption
电影改编
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4. a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’
莎士比亚悲剧《麦克佩斯》的电影改写本
- adaptation (n.) c. 1600, "action of adapting (something to something else)," from French adaptation, from Late Latin adaptationem (nominative adaptatio), noun of action from past participle stem of adaptare "to adjust" (see adapt). Meaning "condition of being adapted, state of being fitted to circumstances or relations" is from 1670s. Sense of "modification of a thing to suit new conditions" is from 1790. Biological sense "variations in a living thing to suit changed conditions" first recorded 1859 in Darwin's writings.
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