Transitional

(adj.) of or relating to or characterized by transition; 'adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood' .

亚伯整理

• If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• So that the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But all of these operations are conceived to be merely transitional; they lack meaning on their own account. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• One, namely, the distinctness of specific forms and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We should be extremely cautious in concluding that an organ could not have been formed by transitional gradations of some kind. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

克里斯整理