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A chrysalis is a moth or a butterfly in the middle of its life: it has stopped crawling around as a , and it has not yet come out as the flying adult. At this stage it has a hard outer shell, and inside that shell the body is quietly rebuilt.
A chrysalis is a moth or a butterfly in the middle of its lifeA chrysalis 是蛾或蝴蝶生命中間的一個階段: it has stopped crawling around as a caterpillar牠已經不再以毛毛蟲的樣子到處爬, and而且 it has not yet come out as the flying adult還沒有變成會飛的成蟲出來 At this stage在這個階段, it has a hard outer shell牠有一層硬硬的外殼, and而 inside that shell the body is quietly rebuilt殼裡面身體正在悄悄重組
People often mix this up with a cocoon. A cocoon is the silk bag that some moths spin around themselves; the chrysalis is the creature — and its hard case — inside.
People often mix this up with a cocoon人們常常把牠跟繭搞混 A cocoon is the silk bag that some moths spin around themselves繭是某些蛾用絲吐出來包住自己的袋子; the chrysalis is the creature — and its hard case — insidechrysalis 則是裡面那隻蟲，連同牠那層硬殼
Many butterflies spin no silk bag at all; you just see the hard shell hanging from a twig. The shell may look brown, green, or a little gold.
Many butterflies spin no silk bag at all很多蝴蝶根本不會吐絲結袋; you just see the hard shell hanging from a twig你只會看到硬殼掛在樹枝上 The shell may look brown, green, or a little gold這層殼可能是棕色、綠色，或帶點金色
We also stretch the word in a slightly way: if a person or a plan is “in a chrysalis,” they are hidden, changing, and not ready to come out yet. In everyday talk it is mostly a science-class word.
We also stretch the word我們也會把這個詞引申用 in a slightly bookish way帶點文青、書面的方式: if a person or a plan is "in a chrysalis,"如果一個人或一個計畫「處於 chrysalis 之中」, they are hidden, changing, and not ready to come out yet表示他們正藏著、正在改變，還沒準備好出來 In everyday talk在日常對話裡, it is mostly a science-class word它主要還是一個自然課會用的詞
組成From Latin chrysalis, from Greek khrusallís. People usually unpack this as khrusós, “gold,” plus an ending, because some of the shells look golden — though some scholars think the Greek word may be older than that story, from a Pre-Greek layer of the language.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Chrysalisname
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A hypothetical former moon of Saturn, whose gravitational influence is proposed as the source of Saturn's inclination and near-resonance with Uranus, and whose destruction by gravitational disruption is proposed as the source of Saturn's rings.
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A proposed generation ship, which would use fusion rockets and take 400 years to travel from the Sun to Alpha Centauri. See PROJECT HYPERION and Project Hyperion (interstellar).
chrysalisnoun/ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/
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A butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; (originally) any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food.
- Amongst the particular signs testifying the same thing, are also those exhibited by worms which feed on herbs, which, when they are to undergo a metamorphosis, encompass themselves as with a womb, that they may be born again, being therein changed into nymphs and chrysalisses, and presently into beautiful butterflies, when they fly into the air as into their heaven, where the female sports with her male companion, as one conjugal partner with another, and they nourish themselves from odoriferous flowers, and lay their eggs, thus providing that their species may live after them: […]
- The herbaceous or herbiferous produce had such gummy gelatinous properties, that tiniest tiddles incorporated themselves into huge chrysalisses, from whence monster butterflies egged it, all the world over, like snowberries, during a moist September, as soon as the blossom is by!
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The bare hanging cocoon of butterfly pupae; (originally) any cocoon.
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Any limiting environment or situation escaped during one's growth or development in the manner of a butterfly.
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
- No, no matter how far Ray Kurzweil gets with his artificial intelligence project at Google, we cannot simply rise from the chrysalis of matter as pure consciousness.
chrysalisverb/ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/
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To form a chrysalis or cocoon.
- June 11. it chryſaliſed into a ſmall round ſilk-bag, mothed the 27th. […] The ground of the caterpillar is yellow, thick ſet with warts, and black-haired ſtars; chryſaliſed into a ſilk-bag Jan. 17. hatched the 28th into a yellow moth, ſhaded with red, as the painting repreſents it.
- One memorable day last January a caterpillar which had chrysalised happily in a ventilator came out in the office in full glory as a butterfly, under the impression it was summer.
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To metamorphize, to undergo metamorphosis, to transform.
- He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.
- “THE PALACE OF PUCK” CHRYSALISED INTO MUSICAL COMEDY—BUTTERFLIES AT THE APOLLO
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。