change or cause to change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way
(尤指以相对细微但却显著的方式)(使)改变性质(或成分)
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Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage 埃利奥特被说服对该段落进行修改
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nothing alters the fact that children are our responsibility 什么都改变不了孩子是我们的责任的事实
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our outward appearance alters as we get older 我们的外貌随年龄增长而改变
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[as adj.
altered ]an altered state .变化了的状态。
[with obj.]make structural changes to (a building)
改建(某建筑)
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plans to alter the dining hall .改建食堂的计划。
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〈北美,澳〉 阉割,骟(家畜)。
"late Middle English: from Old French