revisionnoun詞源 1/ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/

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  The process of revising:

  • Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.
  • 2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix, The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .
• 2

  The process of revising:

  • All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!
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  A changed edition, or new version; a modification.

  • The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.
  • 1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx, However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett′s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence′s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.
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  A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.

  • A revision story

revisionverb詞源 2/ɹɪˈvɪʒ.ən/

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  To provide with a new vision.

  • What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.
  • Earlier plays of the Broadway comedy genre focused on assimilation […] By re-imagining and re-visioning classic Broadway comedy as a parable of gay growth, Allen has illuminted ^([sic]) the original style and given us something new that is both fresh and funny.