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A complete change in form or nature. Used literally in biology for the process some animals go through as they grow into a totally different-looking adult, like a turning into a butterfly or a into a frog. Used figuratively for a big, often surprising change in a person, place, or situation.
（生物）變態（如毛毛蟲變蝴蝶）；（比喻）蛻變、徹底轉變
組成Greek meta- ("change, beyond") + morphe ("form, shape") + -osis (a suffix for a process or condition).
同家族的字
- morphto smoothly change shape, especially in computer graphics — same Greek root morphe
- amorphousa- + morph + -ous, "having no fixed shape" — same root morphe
- metamorphicdescribes rock changed in form by heat or pressure — same word family
原始詞典資料4 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。
metamorphosisnoun/ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/
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A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
- With Severne she along doth go, / Her Metamorphosis to show ; / And makes the wand’ring Wy declaim / In honour of the British name.
- I wonder’d at ſuch a Metamorphoſis in ſo ſhort a time, he told me, ’twas for the death of his Wife, that Nature had thus antedated his Years ; ’tis true, that a weighty ſetled ſorrow is of that force, that beſides the contraction of the Spirits, it will work upon the radical moiſture, and dry it up, ſo that the Hair can have no moiſture at the Root.
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A noticeable change in character, appearance, function, or condition.
- The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.
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biologynatural-sciencesA change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog).
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medicinepathologysciencesA change, usually degenerative, in the structure of a specific body tissue.
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。