Alternation

(noun.) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; 'a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes'.

埃尔希编辑

• Their development demands continuous alternation and readjustment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Miss Crawford was soon to leave Mansfield, and on this circumstance the no and the yes had been very recently in alternation. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• What happens is that since neither of these things is persistently possible, we get a compromise and an alternation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The alternations of splendour and misery which these people undergo are very queer to view. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In the rapid alternations of her temper, her anger was beginning to rise again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• His manner seemed liable to equal alternations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Dark as it was getting, I could still see these changes, though but as mere alternations of light and shade; for colour had faded with the daylight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

校对:菲利斯