Variety

(noun.) a difference that is usually pleasant; 'he goes to France for variety'; 'it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic'.

(noun.) (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics; 'varieties are frequently recognized in botany'.

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• American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• However opinions may differ on a variety of subjects, I should think it would be universally agreed, Sir Leicester, that I am not much to boast of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Commercial soaps are made from a great variety of substances, such as tallow, lard, castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They have not done till this generation; but I feel as if it were my vocation to turn out a new variety of the Yorke species. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Don't look forward to variety, but you'll have excellence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• When the expense of fashionable dress is very great, the variety must be very small. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There was a great quantity and variety of stuff, as the Claytons had expected a possible five to eight years' residence in their new home. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• This paste answers a variety of purposes. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Since Oersted’s first electric magnet in 1820, electric magnets have been made in a variety of forms and for many different purposes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There were also a great variety of flying cockroaches. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He wanted to find the most homogeneous variety. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In this respect, therefore, the species of the larger genera resemble varieties, more than do the species of the smaller genera. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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.
• In genera having more than the average number of species in any country, the species of these genera have more than the average number of varieties. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If, then, it varied, natural selection would probably favour different varieties in the different islands. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He studied the sp ecies in their natural setting, the habitat, and range, and habits, and food of the different varieties. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In one district several varieties occurred, and of these one alone resembled, to a certain extent, the common Ithomia of the same district. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• No; but it can give varieties of pain, and prevent us from breaking our hearts with a single tyrant master-torture. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There are several varieties, as the Irish greyhound, the Scottish, the Russian, the Italian and the Turkish. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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