gradation

• n. （色彩、顏色、次序、音調等的）漸變；分等級；（各種狀態、性質等的）分階段漸變；元音交替

來自grade, 級別，層級。

gradation (n.)

1530s, "a climax;" 1670s, "orderly arrangement or succession," from Middle French gradation (16c.) and directly from Latin gradationem (nominative gradatio) "ascent by steps; a climax," noun of action from gradus "step, degree" (see grade (n.)). Meaning "gradual change" is from 1540s.

1. Note the subtle gradation of / in colour in this painting.

注意這幅畫中色彩的細微變化.

來自辭典例句

2. It is hard to understand all the minute gradation of their bureaucracy.

很難弄清楚他們那套官僚體製全部細微的等級分別.

來自辭典例句

3. The fourth way is taken from the gradation to be found in things.

第四個論證出自在事物中發現的等級.

來自哲學部分

4. Such a tabulation cannot represent adequately the complex gradation relationships between the types.

這樣的圖表不能充分代表各類型之間的複雜級配關係.

來自辭典例句

5. The gradation in the physical properties of the alkanes is typical of a homologous series.

烷烴物理性質的逐漸變化是同係列的特點.

來自辭典例句