单词cline
n.: 渐变群
网络: 倾斜；生态群；梯度变异
渐变群，梯度变异（群体中相邻的两个成员相差无几，但第一个和最后一个之间差异极明显）:
a series of similar items in which each is almost the same as the ones next to it, but the last is very different from the first
【生物学】(物种演变曲线中的)倾斜
〔生〕梯度变异
淅变群
倾群
单向演变群
〔生〕渐变群
复数：clines
The police superintendent, Philip Cline, stepped down in April after two videos emerged of off-duty officers beating civilians.
原警察局长菲利普•柯林（PhilipCline）因两盘警员殴打平民的录像带被爆光，已在四月引咎辞职。
Wagner said he was able to track down Karen Cline after running into her stepfather a few weeks ago.
魏格纳说，他数周前偶遇凯伦.克莱恩的继父，才能找到她。
The only possibility of a counterargument, Cline said, is if the venerable, time-tested standard model of particle physics is proven wrong.
大卫·克莱因说，反驳论点的唯一可能性，只能在于那珍贵的、经过时间考验的粒子物理学的标准模型被证明是否还存在着某种错误。
To hear the stories of the Allen and Cline families, universal screening of newborns seems a no-brainer .
听过艾伦及克莱两家的故事后，新生儿全面筛检似乎是再简单不过的选择。
The cline is considered the probable result of geographic trends in precipitation, temperature, and perhaps also photoperiod.
人们认为这种梯度变异可能是降水量，温度也许还有光周期等地理趋势造成的结果。
At Cline Cellars, a Sonoma winery that has turned its rooftop solar, the only maintenance problem is dust, which can block out sunlight.
索诺玛县一家叫做ClineCellars的酒厂屋顶的太阳能板，其唯一维护问题是会遮住阳光的尘土。
The populations at each end of the cline may be substantially different from one another.
在渐变群两端的种群是完全不同的。
This cline exists along a transect from the Sacramento Valley to near the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains .
这一渐变群是沿着萨克拉曼多谷地到西瓦内华达山脊的植被带存在的。
William Cline, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, says he thinks it is premature to talk about Geithner leaving.
彼得森国际经济研究所的资深研究员WilliamCline表示，他认为，现在讨论盖特纳离职还为时尚早。
Often, individuals at either end of a cline are reproductively isolated.
通常，在两个变异群中的个体是繁殖隔离的。