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To metamorphose is to change so thoroughly that you are not looking at the same kind of thing afterwards — or to make something change in that way. A metamorphoses into a moth. Writers borrow it for people and places too: a quiet street metamorphosed into a night market. It is a little literary and biological; in ordinary talk most people just say change into or turn into. You can use it with or without an object: she metamorphosed, or the heat metamorphosed the rock. It is not for a small tweak. If the thing is still basically itself, this is the wrong verb.
蛻變；使徹底改變（生物課可寫「變態」，但日常「變態」是罵人，課外別當翻譯）
組成From French métamorphoser, from Old French metamorphose, from Latin metamorphōsis — the same family as metamorphosis.
同家族的字
- metamorphosisthe noun for that complete change of form
- metamorphicthe adjective, including of rock changed by heat and pressure
原始詞典資料3 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。
metamorphoseverb/ˌmɛtəˈmɔːˌfəʊz/
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Of a moth or insect, to undergo metamorphosis.
- 2
To undergo some transformation.
- In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realising that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the husband; by whom he would be despoiled, choose for despoiler, if the could become, metamorphose into the sister, the mistress, the bride.
- Environmental problems are not objectively existing physical phenomena amenable to reliable analysis and diagnosis. They are social constructions whose meaning and significance metamorphose and wax and wane according to changeable human interest.
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To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.
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。