gradation

gradation

英 [grə'deɪʃ(ə)n]
　　美 [grə'deʃən]

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

中文詞源：

gradation 層級

來自grade, 級別，層級。

例句：

1. Note the subtle gradation of / in colour in this painting.
註意這幅畫中色彩的細微變化.

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制全部細微的等級分別.

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.

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復雜級配關系.

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系列的特點.