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metamorphose

/met-uh-mawr-fohz, -fohs/US // ˌmɛt əˈmɔr foʊz, -foʊs //UK // (ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəʊz) //

蜕变,蜕化,蜕变为,变形

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v.有主动词 verb
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    met·a·mor·phosed, met·a·mor·phos·ing.

    • : to change the form or nature of; transform.
    • : to subject to metamorphosis or metamorphism.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    met·a·mor·phosed, met·a·mor·phos·ing.

    • : to undergo or be capable of undergoing a change in form or nature.

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Examples

  • She had a natural talent for extracting lessons from ordinary moments, showing her kids how caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies and sliding magnets near metallic pipes to explain polarity.

  • Over the last few years, Section 230 of the 1996 US Communications Decency Act has metamorphosed from a little-known subset of regulations about the internet into a major rallying point for both the right and left.

  • That indeed would soon metamorphose into the strongest and broadest economic expansion since World War II.

  • You metamorphose, seemingly overnight, from most- to least-stressed individual on the astrological block.

  • Any little Accident from without may metamorphose his Fancy, and push him upon a new set of Thoughts.

  • How metamorphose a passage of dialect into the power of gravitation, and a silent corollary into a flash of lightning?

  • Your desire for profits, which is sheer selfishness, you metamorphose into altruistic solicitude for suffering humanity.

  • Now the pitcher, as this is called, is not a new organ, but simply a metamorphose of a leaf.

  • The Metamorphose is forcible, perhaps it has more force and wit than elegance.