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The stretch between two states — not the old one, not the new one, but the crossing itself. Think of the space between two rooms: you have left one and not yet settled into the other. The word puts the spotlight on that in-between stretch, which is why it usually implies the change takes time rather than happening in an instant.
可以想成：兩個狀態中間的那一段——不是舊的，也還不是新的，而是「正在過去」的過程本身。像從一個房間走到另一個房間之間…更多收起
可以想成：兩個狀態中間的那一段——不是舊的，也還不是新的，而是「正在過去」的過程本身。像從一個房間走到另一個房間之間的那段路：舊的已經離開，新的還沒安頓。這個字把鏡頭對準這一段，所以它通常暗示改變是需要時間的，不是一瞬間切換。原始詞典資料15 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。
transitionnoun/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/
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The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
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A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- Holonym: metadiscourse
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA change of key.
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biologygeneticsmedicineA point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
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A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
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medicinesciencesThe onset of the final stage of childbirth.
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educationProfessional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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hobbieslifestyleskatingA change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
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The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.
- The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
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Death; passing from life into death.
- As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.
- This was my first Christmas without Gemmia and the one-year anniversary of her transition. […] We had a lovely time, but it was very clear that we would rather have been home doing what we would have done had Gemmia been alive.
transitionverb/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/
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To make a transition.
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To bring through a transition; to change.
- The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
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To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- Eric told me that after he transitioned, he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.
- And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition. First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy […]
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。