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/ˌtrænsfəˈmeɪʃən/
A complete change in someone or something, often making them much better or very different.
轉變、蛻變
複數 transformations
核心畫面
You can picture a itself into a cocoon and coming out a butterfly — the same creature, but its whole shape and form have been made over. Transformation is that kind of deep, all-the-way change, not a small tweak.
可以想成一隻毛毛蟲把自己包進繭裡，再飛出來變成蝴蝶——還是同一個生命，但整個形狀、樣貌都被重新塑造過。transfo…更多收起
可以想成一隻毛毛蟲把自己包進繭裡，再飛出來變成蝴蝶——還是同一個生命，但整個形狀、樣貌都被重新塑造過。transformation 偏向這種徹底的、從裡到外的改變，而不是小修小補。From the word’s history
From Latin trans- 'across, over' + forma 'shape, form' — literally to carry something across into a new shape. The 'change of form' is written right into the word.
來自拉丁文 trans-（跨過、越過）加上 forma（形狀、外形），字面就是「把一個東西跨越、搬進一個新的形狀裡」。「換一個形」這件事本來就寫在字裡。
etymonline.com/word/transform
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。
transformationnoun/ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- undergo a radical transformation
- “This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing.
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A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
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mathematicssciencesThe replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
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biologygeneticsmedicineThe alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
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governmentpoliticsThe transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
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obsoleteA woman's wig.
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。