每日一词 134 variant

134 variant

基础篇： meaning: something that is slightly different from the usual form of something

Meituan, Pingduoduo, and similar products are simply a number of variants of the same idea.

进阶篇：variant 是可数名词，意思是“变体、变种”。虽然这个词最长出现在科学文章中，很多其他主题的文章中也可以碰到。当我们想表达一个事物和另一个事物本质上是一样的，但略有差异，就可以说 A is a variant of B. 我们还可以在给别人介绍一个比较新的事物或概念时使用 variant， 便于对方联想和理解。 variant 后面接介词 of 或者 on. 在口语和写作中均可使用。

"Color" is a spelling variant of "colour."

微软有 word 文字处理器， Apple 有pages， 它们都是文字处理器，就可以说：

Pages, an app by Apple, is a variant of/on Word, a widely used word processed by Microsoft. 

This card game is just a variant on Shengji. 

经济学人, 新西兰枪击案。[ps: 这段写的真好，也开始坚持读经济学人吧]

Yet he was part of something much bigger. The names and slogans scrawled on his weapons were familiar to extreme white nationalists all around the world---but hardly anyone else. His ranting internet manifesto, "The Great Replacement", repeated a staple far-right conspiracy theory： that non-white and Muslim immigrants in Western countries are invaders, ushered in by scheming elites to replace ethnic-European populations. Variants of that once fringe idea are now common, not just in social-media posts by anonymous wackos but in the speeches of elected politicians from Hungary to Iowa. 

应用篇：

1） 翻译：市场上有很多种可乐，都是可口可乐的变种。

There are many colas on the market, all variants of/on the original Coca Cola drink.

2) 造句：转账工具大同小异 （模仿今天美团、拼多多这个例句造句）

Venmo, Zelle, and similar payment services, are merely several variants of the same idea.