Vicissitude

(noun.) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).

(noun.) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; 'the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research'.

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• To know, to grasp a thing intellectually or theoretically, is to be out of the region of vicissitude, chance, and diversity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Why in the face of hundreds of philosophies wrecked on the rocks of the unexpected do men continue to believe that the intellect can transcend the vicissitudes of experience? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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