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Causing a big, deep change in someone or something — usually a positive or important change, not just a small adjustment. People use it about experiences, technology, or events that really change how something works or how a person thinks.
帶來重大改變的、變革性的
組成transform (trans- across + form shape) + -ative (adjective ending)
同家族的字
- transformthe base verb — to change the form or nature of something
- transformationshares 'transform' — the noun for the big change itself
原始詞典資料2 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。
transformativeadj/trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv/
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That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
- "You'll know the transformative effect that the Metro has had on the whole of Tyneside," says NCC [Northumberland County Council] leader Peter Jackson. "This new passenger line will have the same effect on southeast Northumberland. It's a transformative project and we're going to make sure it happens."
- “It is hard. And there is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience, but this isn’t supposed to be easy. My father and this administration intends to be transformative, and we want to do big, bold things and we’re looking to change the status quo. So I didn’t expect it to be easy. I think some of the distractions and some of the ferocity was — I was a little blindsided by on a personal level,” she said.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesChiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.
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。