| 词组 | change |
| 释义 | change [changed, changed, changing] change around change around/round sth • change sth around/round to move things into different positions: ▪ When we'd changed the furniture around, the room looked quite different. ▪ You can create different effects by changing the plants around, creating contrasts in form and colour. change sth around if you change a room around, you move the furniture in it into different positions: ▪ I'm going to change my room round, and put my desk next to the window. ■ SIMILAR TO: rearrange, ↑switch around change down change down BrE to put the engine of a vehicle into a lower gear because you are driving more slowly, or are driving up a hill: ▪ It is important to change down in plenty of time to prevent having to brake fiercely. +into ▪ Slow down when you approach the junction, and change down into second gear. ■ OPPOSITE: change up change into 1. change into sth to become something completely different: ▪ When the princess kissed the frog, it changed into a handsome prince. ▪ In less than 20 years, Japan had changed into one of the world's leading economies. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑turn into 2. change sb/sth into sth to make someone or something become something different: ▪ Churches are being changed into apartments, and warehouses are being converted into offices. ▪ The husband who constantly criticizes you is probably trying to change you into the kind of person he wants you to be. ▪ Circe, a beautiful and dangerous witch, changed Odysseus' men into pigs. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑turn into change over 1. change over especially BrE to stop doing or using one system or thing, and to start doing or using a different one instead +to ▪ Wheat was no longer profitable, and many farmers were forced to change over to dairy farming. change over from sth to sth ▪ We changed over from gas to solar heating because it's cleaner and cheaper in the long term. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑switch over changeover n C a change from one way of doing something to another: ▪ The changeover from analogue to digital television should be complete by 2006. 2. change over especially BrE if two people change over, they each start doing the job or activity that the other one was doing before: ▪ You navigate and I'll drive halfway, and then we'll change over. ▪ One of us would do the digging and one of us would pull up weeds, then when we got bored we'd change over. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑swap over informal, ↑switch over change round BrE ► see ↑change around change up change up BrE to put the engine of a vehicle into a higher gear because you want to drive more quickly +into ▪ When you're on the motorway, change up into fifth. ■ OPPOSITE: change down |
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