| 释义 |
▪ I. modifying, vbl. n.|ˈmɒdɪfaɪɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb modify.
1643in Dundee Charters (1880) 86 The said Provest..shall compeir..and thair Judiciallie consent to the modefying of the forsaid sowmes as ane constant yeirly stipend to thair persone. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccxv. 188 All this Descanting, and Modifying upon the Matter. a1853W. Jay Autobiog. xvii. (1855) 163 General principles of church-government, which will admit..of considerable modifyings in their application.
▪ II. ˈmodifying, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That modifies.
1793Beddoes Math. Evid. 145 Indeed, except as to the sound of a language, it is indifferent whether these modifying words are prefixed or suffixed. 1823H. J. Brooke Introd. Crystallogr. 113 When the modifying planes first touch each other on the edges of the tetrahedron, a regular octahedron is produced. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain liii, There is many a cave of nature's forming..which nevertheless exhibits indications that man has turned it to some account, and that it has been subjected more or less to his modifying power. 1845J. M. Kemble in Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 136 Where the modifying vowel has only been introduced in the process of conjugation. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. viii. (1884) 259 Changes of food..exert a powerful modifying influence upon living organisms. |