Adjust

(verb.) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; 'We must adjust to the bad economic situation'.

(verb.) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; 'Adjust the clock, please'; 'correct the alignment of the front wheels'.

(verb.) make correspondent or conformable; 'Adjust your eyes to the darkness'.

(verb.) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim.

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• Now the operator has to adjust himself to his machine, instead of his tool to his own purposes. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• How then shall we adjust those principles together? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The ability of the eye to adjust itself to varying distances is called accommodation. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Glad to see you here again, sir, said Pratt, lingering to adjust a blind. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• About 1639 Gascoigne, a young Englishman, invented the micrometer, which enables an observer to adjust a telescope with very great precision. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Here is a state of affairs where the duty of every clever person is evidently to help adjust and reassure. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Her mother came into the room before this whirl of thoughts was adjusted into anything like order. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Emanuel adjusted it to the lock of this door. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The planchets, after being adjusted, are taken to the coining and milling rooms, and are passed through the milling machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Higgins nodded to her as a sign of greeting; and she softly adjusted her working materials on the table, and prepared to listen. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• While Mary is adjusting her ideas, he continued, let us return to Mr. Bingley. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She is too busy to waste time in adjusting an ordinary telephone to her ear, and so wears one of special design all the time. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Oh, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips with nicety and looking meditatively on the ground. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Bucket adjusts them in a moment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In that case the operator tunes his instrument, or in other words adjusts his apparatus to suit the wave length of the station with which he wishes to communicate. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Next he adjusts his receiving circuits for a number of wave lengths. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The greatest power is the one that is subtle and adjusts itself, not one which blindly attacks. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Sir Leicester rises, adjusts her scarf about her, and returns to his seat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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