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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")—in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change—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—one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes—adapt oneself to changes—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)—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)—complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction—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—old habits are hard change (idiom); It is hard to throw off ingrained habits.—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)—rivers and mountains are easy change, man's character much harder—change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic—the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. change with the overall trend—complete change from the normal state (idiom); quite uncharacteristic—it is easier change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character [idiom.]—lit. change something rotten into something magical [idiom.]— |