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Evolutionary describes anything related to evolution — the slow process by which living things change over a very long time. It's also used more loosely for any slow, gradual kind of change or development, especially when people want to contrast it with a sudden, big change (which they'd call 'revolutionary' instead).
演化的、進化的；（比喻）漸進式的（相對於革命性的巨變）
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- evolvethe verb for the slow process of gradual change
- revolutionshares the root 'volve/volution,' meaning 'to turn,' though it means a sudden, big change instead of a slow one
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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。
evolutionaryadj/ˌiː.vəˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/
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Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
- The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.
- It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
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Having formal similarities to the biological theory of evolution.
- The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.
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