evolve
动词 v.
英 /ɪˈvɒlv/
美 /ɪˈvɑlv/|/-ˈvɔlv/|/iˈ-/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
— The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul
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To change or transform (something).
— Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.
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To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
— You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
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Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
— How long ago did birds evolve beaks?
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To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
— A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?
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To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
— to evolve odours
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To wind or unwind (something).
— And come, my Muſe! that lov'ſt the ſylvan ſhade, / Evolve the mazes, and the miſt diſpel; / Tranſlate the ſong; convince my doubting maid / No ſolemn Derviſe can explain ſo vvell— […]
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To move in regular procession through a system.
— [T]he principles which Art involves, Science alone evolves.
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To change, to transform.
— What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.
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Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
— How long ago did beaks evolve?
词汇关系
词源
Borrowed from Latin ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volvō (“roll”).
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