adaptations

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  • 适应
名词 adaptation:
  1. a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

  2. the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

  3. (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

    1. Many are neither adaptations nor the result of selection at all.
      其实,有许多根本就不是适应,也不是选择的结果。
    2. They also have a number of special physical adaptations that help them thrive in desert conditions.
      它们自身的改变也适应了沙漠环境,才得以繁衍生存。