From the word’s history
From Middle English ajusten, from Middle French adjuster, from Latin ad + iustus 'correct'; another view derives it from Old French ajouster.
字根是拉丁文 iustus「正確」；有一說來自古法文 ajouster。
Picture a small correcting move: the mirror turned a few degrees, the strap pulled in one notch. Nothing is replaced or rebuilt — one thing is nudged until it sits right. Turn the same move and it is what a person does over their first weeks in a new country: small changes, one after another, until life fits.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adjustverb/əˈd͡ʒʌst/
- 1
To modify.
- Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- 2
To improve or rectify.
- He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- 3
To settle an insurance claim.
- Murder is dealt with by the law of blood-revenge, but the innocent manslayer may seek asylum at God's altar. With murder are ranked man-stealing, offences against parents, and witchcraft. Other injuries are occasions of self-help or of private suits to be adjusted at the sanctuary.
- 4
To change to fit circumstances.
- Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
- She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
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