Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Both involve ends consciously entertained and the selection and adaptations of materials and processes designed to effect the desired ends. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The real, like the Platonic Socrates, as we gather from the Memorabilia of Xenophon, was fond of making similar adaptations. 柏拉图.理想国.
These adaptations, no doubt, made the new teaching much more understandable and acceptable in Egypt and Syria and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Inventors came forward with adaptations of all the old systems they could think of for the purpose, and with many new ones. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.