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Picture one thing and something else that is almost the same but not quite: the gap between them is the variation. You can still see what they share — that is why the difference shows up at all.
可以想成兩樣東西擺在一起，明明是同一類、卻不完全一樣，那道差距就是 variation。關鍵在於底下有個共同的東西沒…更多收起
可以想成兩樣東西擺在一起，明明是同一類、卻不完全一樣，那道差距就是 variation。關鍵在於底下有個共同的東西沒變，所以「不一樣的地方」才浮得出來——溫度每天都有高有低，但仍然是同一個地方的溫度。從這道差距出發，這個字既可以指「差異本身」，也可以指「因為差異而生出來的那個版本」。原始詞典資料10 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。
variationnoun/ˌvɛəɹɪˈeɪʃn̩/
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The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
- Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
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A related but distinct thing.
- When the process didn't work, we tried a variation.
- All of his soups are variations on a single recipe.
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nauticaltransportThe angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
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A line of play that differs from the original.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
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biologygeneticsmedicineThe modification of a hereditary trait.
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astronomynatural-sciencesDeviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe situation where two or more linguistic forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, the choice of form being determined by factors of dialect, sociolect, register or simply the speaker's preference.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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mathematicssciencesAn infinitesimal perturbation applied to a function, typically denoted δf, used to probe how a functional changes.
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mathematicssciencesThe corresponding first-order change in a functional induced by such a perturbation, typically denoted δJ[f] and called the first variation.
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。