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An alteration is a change that makes someone or something a little different, or the act of making that change. Plans, rules, and buildings all have alterations. It sounds a step more formal than change. In clothes shops, alterations is almost a set meaning: trousers, taking in a jacket. Those “small” changes can still matter a lot to the person wearing them. The word can cover a process as well as the result. It has nothing to do with an altar in a church — they only sound alike.
改動；變更；（衣服的）修改
組成alter + -ation. From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō.
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- alterthe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
alterationnoun/ɒl.tə(ɹ)ˈeɪ.ʃən/
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The act of altering or making different.
- …alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
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The act of altering or making different.
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The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.
- The doctors don't see any alteration in the patient's condition.
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。