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Examples:can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready give and take—The Book of Changes ("I Ching")—It is hard change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.—student who changes school—fig. huge changes in the world—many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose—adjust one's head and turn one's face (idiom); cosmetic changes—succession (of changes in an ecological community)—fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not—merely ring changes on a few terms—inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)—change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction—changes behind the scenes—one of the 64 trigrams of the Book of Changes—change a plan as quickly as a flag (changes in the wind)(idiom)—walk around the stage (to indicate scene changes)—man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife—one of the 64 trigrams of the Book of Changes (old)—difficulty in adapting changes—nothing much changes (idiom); always the same—catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)—lit. daily changes of temperature—make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy [idiom.]—lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood [idiom.]—momentous changes are underway [idiom.]—United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—change color and alter one's expression (idiom); to go white with fear—nothing remains the same (idiom); change beyond recognition—the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood—face changing, a device of Sichuan Opera, a dramatic change of attitude expressing fright, anger etc—reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed revolution)—fig. a slight change will affect everything else—develop rapidly after abrupt turn (idiom); dramatic change—change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty—lit. change more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming)—lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); change sth. that is already settled upon— |