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The passing of a soul out of one body at death and into another body — what English speakers more often call reincarnation. The full phrase is 'the transmigration of souls', and you will meet it mainly in writing about , Buddhism, , and the ancient Greek philosophers who taught the same idea, such as Pythagoras and . It is uncountable and firmly formal — a word for textbooks, philosophy and religious studies, not conversation. If you say it in ordinary speech, people will understand you but will feel you are quoting a book. In everyday English, 'reincarnation' does the same job and 'rebirth' is common in Buddhist writing in particular. There is a second, quite separate use of 'transmigration' that has nothing to do with souls: the movement of a whole people from one country or region to another, especially when a government organises it. Indonesia, for example, ran a large official 'transmigration' programme moving families between islands. That sense is common in geography and development writing, so if you meet the word with no soul in sight, this is probably the one. In biology, cells are also said to transmigrate when they move across a wall or membrane.
輪迴、轉世（靈魂死後投生到另一個身體）；（另一義）移居、遷徙
組成trans- 'across' + Latin migrāre 'to move house, to move from one place to another' + -ation, the ending that names the action. So: a moving-across. Whether it is a soul crossing into a new body or a family crossing to a new island, the picture is the same. Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.
同家族的字
- migratesame Latin migrāre 'to move' — birds and people move to another place
- migrationsame migrāre — the movement itself
- immigrantsame migrāre, with in- 'into' — someone who moves into a country
- emigratesame migrāre, with e- 'out of' — to move out of a country
- transfersame trans- 'across' — carry across
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。
transmigrationnoun/ˌtɹænz.mɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
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Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
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A change from one state of existence to another.
- Any great change is like cold water in winter—one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband.
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The movement of a soul from one body to another after death.
- Near-synonyms: metempsychosis, reincarnation (both broadly synonymous)
- The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.
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。