| 单词 | transform |
| 释义 | trans·form I. transitive verb 1. a. < the sea king's daughter is transformed into a river — Alfred Frankenstein > < life-giving water which transforms the dusty sagebrush lands into fertile fields — American Guide Series: Texas > < the process which transformed the lumber … into gunstocks — C.W.Mitman > < the processes by which policy is transformed into law and administration — A.N.Holcombe > b. < for a moment the smile transformed his face — J.C.Smith b.1924 > < the drizzle that had so greatly transformed the scene — Thomas Hardy > < science … has transformed the world as the scene of the human drama — C.W.Eliot > — often used with into or to < an elaborate experiment in camouflage meant to transform it into … farms and orange groves — J.G.Cozzens > < the setting sun suddenly transformed the … peaks to furnace red — George Farwell > c. < do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind — Rom 12:2 (Revised Standard Version) > < a change in the economic condition is not alone sufficient to transform woman's situation — Nation > — often used with to < inventions and discoveries which quickly transform the people … from barbarism to civilization — R.W.Murray > 2. 3. a. < the engine transforms potential energy into motion > b. intransitive verb < the growing Crepidula first becomes a male and later … transforms into a female — W.C.Allee > < a proton … can transform into a neutron — R.E.Marshak > < sofas that transform for use as a bed > Synonyms: < the old rock quarry … has been transformed into a large baseball and football field and is used as a skating rink in the winter — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < water, in the shape of rain, will always transform that gray soil into a sort of sticky black glue — C.E.W.Bean > < transform the hunger and misery of the people into hatred — Stanley Ross > metamorphose may add the idea of a supernaturally or magically induced change; it may be confined to a change in structure or habits marking a stage in the development of some form of animal life or a change induced by chemicals or powerful natural agencies, in general, however, suggesting an abrupt, striking, or violent alteration < a plain girl metamorphosed into a dazzling beauty > < a caterpillar metamorphosed into a butterfly > < rocks metamorphosed by heat into hard crystals > transmute suggests an elemental change especially involving a metamorphosis of a lower element or thing into a higher < the alchemists had believed that base metals could be transmuted into gold by such a process — S.F.Mason > < modern atomic science can actually transmute metals — plutonium is a transmuted metal — Time > < art not only adds something new, but seems to transmute and enrich the old — Clive Bell > convert usually stresses a change in detail that fits a thing to a given or especially a new use or function rather than an overall change < the stupendous task of converting virgin wilderness into farms and homes — American Guide Series: Texas > < the business of converting novels into musicals — Lewis Funke > transmogrify suggests a metamorphosis that is often grotesque or bewildering and sometimes preposterous < the classical heroes and heroines were transmogrified into medieval knights and ladies — J.L.Lowes > < the monarch transmogrified into a horse, a beast, but still royal — Jean S. Untermeyer > transfigure suggests an exaltation or glorification in outward appearance < in Bonnard's paintings, the colors of nature are marvelously heightened, enriched, transfigured — David Sylvester > < all the tenderness that had transfigured his face the day before shone there, as he bent over her — Clive Arden > II. III. IV. 1. 2. |
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