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Metamorphosis Metamorphosis Undergo Complete 英 ˌmetə'Mɔːfəsɪs] 美 ˌmetə'Mɔːrfəsɪs N.变质;变形;转变;[生、医]变态

英语单词 metamorphosis
英美音标 英 [ˌmetə'mɔːfəsɪs] 美 [ˌmetə'mɔːrfəsɪs]
中文释义 n.变质;变形;转变;[生、医]变态
英语例句 (1) Low temperature keep the foods from metamorphosis.
(2) One of the favourite games in fairy tales is metamorphosis.
(3) She's undergo quite a metamorphosis since you last see her.
(4) It shows the metamorphosis of a larva into a butterfly.
中文例句 (1) 低温使食物不会变质。
(2) 神话故事的惯用手法之一是凭借魔力改变形态。
(3) 自你上次见到她以来,她已完全变了一个样子。
(4) 它展示了从幼虫变成蝴蝶的过程。
vocabulary简明 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.
vocabulary扩展 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.
柯林斯解释
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[N-VAR 可变名词]变形;变质;彻底的变化 When a metamorphosis occurs, a person or thing develops and changes into something completely different.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • ...his metamorphosis from a republican to a democrat...

    他从共和党人到民主党人的倒戈

  • The employment department has undergone several metamor-phoses.

    就业部已经经历了数次改革。

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