alter

['ɔ:ltə]

v.改变, 更改, 阉割,切除卵巢

vt.

1. 改变

Has she altered her mind?

她改变主意了吗?

2. 修改

The tailor altered the jacket to fit me.

裁缝将夹克修改得合我的身。

The tailor altered the coat to make it shorter.

裁缝把大衣改短了。

3. 【俚】阉割, 去势

vi.

改变, 变样

The city has altered almost out of recognition since I left there five years ago.

自从五年前我离开以后, 那座城市已变得几乎认不出了。

alter for the better/worse

变好/坏

词形变化

动词过去式: altered | 动词过去分词: altered | 动词现在分词: altering | 动词第三人称单数: alters |

词义辨析

同义:

vt.改变; 修改

diversify  change  vary  modify  make different  

同义参见:

revise  turn  differentiate  shrine  adapt  transform  adjust  tide  shift  

反义:

vt.改变; 修改

preserve  

反义参见:

fix  

英英释义

动词 alter:

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

同义词：change, modify

make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence

同义词：change, vary

make an alteration to

insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

同义词：interpolate, falsify

remove the ovaries of

同义词：neuter, spay, castrate

补充

alteralter英:[ˈɔ:ltə] 美:[ˈɔltɚ]vt. & vi.1.改变, 更改As times alter, men's affections change.时过境迁。She is trying to alter the coat.她正设法改那件衣服。

例句

1. Nothing his friends might say could alter the fact that he had failed.朋友们无论说什么都无法改变他失败了这一事实。 2. The government has altered its plans.政府更改了计划。 3. The only way to prevent transmission of HIV is by altering human behaviour.预防艾滋病病毒传播的唯一途径就是改变人们的行为。 4. This dress will need to be altered before the wedding.这条裙子在婚礼前得改一下。 5. Everybody's circumstances alter over time.每个人的境遇都会随时间而改变。 6. Little had altered in the village.村子里几乎没有什么变化。 7. In the evening my mood altered and pain turned to rage.晚上我的情绪发生了变化, 痛苦转化成了愤怒。 8. Have you altered your mind?你改变主意了吗? 9. to alter a coat改做一件大衣 10. If your new coat is too large, a tailor can alter it to fit you.你的大衣要是太大，裁缝能把它改得合你身。 11. Beijing has altered almost beyond recognition.北京变得几乎认不出来了。 12. [with obj.]Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage.埃利奥特被说服对该段落进行修改。 13. 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。 14. [no obj.]our outward appearance alters as we get older.我们的外貌随年龄增长而改变。 15. [as adj. altered]an altered state.变化了的状态。 16. plans to alter the dining hall.改建食堂的计划。 17. We've altered our plan, and will now arrive at 7.00 instead of 8.00.我们改了计划，现在将于7点钟而不是8点钟到达。 18. The village seems to have altered very little in the last twenty years.这个村子在过去二十年里似乎没有什么变化。 19. Alcohol can alter a person's mood.酒精能改变人的情绪。 20. He altered his will to leave everything to his sister.他更改了他的遗嘱，把全部财产都留给了他的妹妹。 21. This one small event altered the course of history.这一个小事件改变了历史进程。 22. The place has altered in the 10 years since I left.这地方在我离开后的10年里已经变样了。 23. I'll need to have/get the dress altered before the wedding.我要在婚礼之前请人把这身礼服改改。 24. They had the puppies altered [=fixed] before they were sold.他们在卖这些小狗前把它们都阉割了。 25. "Later, we see this character again in a slightly altered form."后面我们还会看到这个人，只是形体稍有改变。 26. an altered state of consciousness有所改变的意识状态