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vicissitudes

/vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood/US // vɪˈsɪs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud //UK // (vɪˈsɪsɪˌtjuːd) //

沧桑,沧桑感,变迁,沧海桑田

Related Words

fluctuation波动性,波动permutation排列组合,排列方式,摆布,变化revolution革命,变革,旋转,革命的diversity多样性,多元化,多样化,多元性progression进展情况,进展,发展,进程variety种类,种类繁多,种类多样,种类丰富shift移位,转移,移,轮班uncertainty不确定性,不确定,不确定因素,不明朗novelty新颖性,新颖,新颖的,新奇alteration改动,改建,改造,变更variation变化,变异,变体,变奏switch开关,转换,转换器,开关机turnaround周转,转折点,转变,周转率mutation变异,突变,变种,变异的reversal逆转,反转,逆转的,颠覆innovation创新,革新,创新性,创新精神flip-flop触发器,触发开关,拨动电话,触发式sport体育,运动,体育运动,体育项目about-face约谈,约略,约克,约摸alternation交替,交变,交替进行,交替使用

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
    • : interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
    • : vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
    • : regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
    • : change; mutation; mutability.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
fluctuation波动性,波动permutation排列组合,排列方式,摆布,变化about-face约谈,约略,约克,约摸alteration改动,改建,改造,变更alternation交替,交变,交替进行,交替使用diversity多样性,多元化,多样化,多元性flip-flop触发器,触发开关,拨动电话,触发式innovation创新,革新,创新性,创新精神mutability可变性,易变性,突变性,变异性mutation变异,突变,变种,变异的novelty新颖性,新颖,新颖的,新奇progression进展情况,进展,发展,进程reversal逆转,反转,逆转的,颠覆revolution革命,变革,旋转,革命的shift移位,转移,移,轮班sport体育,运动,体育运动,体育项目switch开关,转换,转换器,开关机transposition转位,换位思考,换位,转置turnaround周转,转折点,转变,周转率uncertainty不确定性,不确定,不确定因素,不明朗variation变化,变异,变体,变奏variety种类,种类繁多,种类多样,种类丰富mid-course correction中途改正,中途纠正,中途改道,中途调整switchover切换,转换,转接,转移ups and downs起伏,跌宕起伏,起伏不定,起落

Examples

  • That party may or may not win power, depending on the vicissitudes of gerrymandering, geography, and the Electoral College.

  • Art must be used in service of the people—and is always subject to the vicissitudes of the party line.

  • One by one, nine men, all military veterans, updated the judge on the vicissitudes of their week.

  • But no matter what the vicissitudes of life, I am still glad that I came of age in Boston, and that it taught me what it did.

  • After the ceremony they were separated; and many years full of strange vicissitudes elapsed before they again met.

  • Through all the vicissitudes of their lives they had kept up a constant correspondence.

  • Together we rejoiced at the escape of Sill and Lamson, and made merry over the vicissitudes of my checkered career.

  • When in health, I could bear the various trials and vicissitudes through which I was called to pass.

  • Having quitted Britain, St. Ursula and her train of 11,000 maidens underwent various vicissitudes.

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