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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—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)—walk around the stage (to indicate scene changes)—man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife—having lived through many changes—one of the 64 trigrams of the Book of Changes (old)—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—change of affection, shift of love (idiom); change one's feelings to another love—make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy [idiom.]—momentous changes are underway [idiom.]—lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood [idiom.]—customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners—old habits are hard change (idiom); It is hard to throw off ingrained habits.—change color and alter one's expression (idiom); to go white with fear—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—different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only—the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. change with the overall trend—lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); change sth. that is already settled upon—lit. change something rotten into something magical [idiom.]— |