metamorphose

• vt. 變質；變形；使變成

來自metamorphosis,變形，質變。

metamorphose (v.)

1570s, from Middle French métamorphoser (16c.), from métamorphose (n.), from Latin metamorphosis (see metamorphosis). Related: Metamorphosed. The Greek verb was metamorphoun.

1. The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.

蝌蚪蛻變了，登上陸地。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a butterfly.

毛毛蟲最終將蛻變成一隻蝴蝶。

來自《權威詞典》

3. A larva metamorphose into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly.

幼蟲變為蛹,然後再變成蝴蝶.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The group is having to metamorphose from a loose collection of businesses into a fully integrated multinational.

該集團將不得不由一個鬆散的企業聯合組織轉變成一個全麵整合的跨國集團。

來自柯林斯例句

5. I was going to metamorphose the movies into an art.

我準備把電影業轉變為一門藝術。

來自辭典例句