adaptation
改编,适应,适应性,适应性调整
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Definitions
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- : the act of adapting.
- : the state of being adapted; adjustment.
- : something produced by adapting: an adaptation of a play for television.
- : Biology. any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from natural selection and by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment.a form or structure modified to fit a changed environment.the ability of a species to survive in a particular ecological niche, especially because of alterations of form or behavior brought about through natural selection.
- : Physiology. the decrease in response of sensory receptor organs, as those of vision, touch, temperature, olfaction, audition, and pain, to changed, constantly applied, environmental conditions.
- : Ophthalmology. the regulating by the pupil of the quantity of light entering the eye.
- : Also a·dap·tion [uh-dap-shuhn]. /əˈdæp ʃən/. Sociology. a slow, usually unconscious modification of individual and social activity in adjustment to cultural surroundings.
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So it’s not exactly an adaptation of a book you’ve seen at the library — instead, it’s an imagining of one of Japan’s most famous stories.
My generation must help Gen Z learn to push on the levers of technical, political, cultural, and economic change, and to draw on existential tools or “deep adaptation” in times of crisis.
There’s a lack of public understanding and support for undertaking coastal adaptation actions, Ehrlers said.
When Beyoncé releases music, it’s an event — even when it’s a soundtrack to a live-action adaptation of an animated film.
He listed ways he was hoping the school districts experimented with outdoor spaces and other adaptations to be able to serve students in person.
A season of Game of Thrones tells its story over ten hours, and only a video game adaptation could match or exceed that.
In all fairness, too, Marshall has at the ready pretty rational reasons for almost every change he made in this adaptation.
This Jack Clayton adaptation of The Turn of the Screw is one of the rare pictures that does justice to Henry James.
Later, Tarantino would help finance the 1996 movie Curdled, a feature-length adaptation of the short.
I asked the Smith brothers to do an adaptation and they did an adaptation of The Death of Jim Loney, another book by Jim Welch.
Dramatic in expressing various characters, emotions, and motives is potentially very great.