| 单词 | metamorphosis |
| 释义 | metamorphosis (once / 2173 pages) n In Kafka's novel entitled Metamorphosis, a man wakes up to find he has turned into a cockroach. That kind of complete and startling change pretty much sums up the word. When a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it goes through a metamorphosis. An idea can undergo metamorphosis, or metamorphosize, too as can feelings. After you spend a full summer with your grandmother, your feelings about the woman may undergo a complete metamorphosis. While you were once afraid of the old woman, you now love her dearly. WORD FAMILYmetamorphosis: metamorphic, metamorphoses+/metamorphic: metamorphism, nonmetamorphic USAGE EXAMPLESArmenti checked the Oxford English Dictionary, which traced the word back to lines from Arthur Golding’s 1565 translation from Latin of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’: Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) He was an important transitional figure in the metamorphosis of television parenting, from the one-size-fits-all version of early TV to the wide variety of today. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) The specimen then go into a state of metamorphosis. Washington Times(Nov 28, 2016) 1n a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting Syn|Hyper transfiguration alteration, revision the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) 2n a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft Hyper transformation, translation the act of changing in form or shape or appearance 3n the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals Syn|Hypo|Hyper metabolism hemimetabolism, hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects heterometabolism, heterometabolydevelopment of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity holometabolism, holometabolycomplete metamorphosis in insects biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms |
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