transmute

1 “It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute black suffering into profit and fun,” she wrote.

2 This was part of the Beatniks’ famed approach to extemporization—the way Kerouac and his contemporaries transmuted the mundane.

3 As played by Erin Wilhelmi, holding herself like a bent pipe cleaner in a print dress, she is a living illustration of pathos transmuted into rage.

4 One memory, of sunlight pouring through a dragonfly’s translucent wing, was transmuted into the crocheted wire sculptures for which she first became known.

5 He went on: "As always with Stoppard, there is much to ponder but, apart from Hilary, all the very well-acted characters feel two-dimensional, and the play hasn't transmuted its research into an emotionally satisfying whole."

6 But it was not acceptable, he felt and still feels, to allow these feelings to transmute into hatred for an entire people.

7 But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.

8 In former times it was thought that ordinary metal could be transmuted into gold.

古时认为一般金属能变成黄金。

9 But how did a hereditary particle transmute into an eye pigment?

10 Otto Plath was of German origin but therein any similarity to the Nazi figure he is transmuted into in “Daddy” ends.

11 This is transmuted to the poem's quietly terrifying final line: "Only an avenue, dark, nameless, without end."

12 Co., the woman often called the mother of horror and science fiction is resurrected and transmuted in a rambling epic that is conceptually unique but too often wearyingly opaque.

13 There’s no need to wave a magic wand over the noun soap and transmute it into an adjective just because of what it’s doing in this phrase.

14 They provided precise ionization data, spelled out their theory on how positrons emitted by the bombarded atoms transmuted into gamma rays, and carefully avoided any speculation about the significance of the new phenomenon.

15 Biographical events transmute into art so straightforwardly as to render the account of Melville's creativity strangely literal, even reductive.

16 A brilliant German scientist discovers a means to transmute lead to gold, but before he can bring his experiments to fruition, his laboratory is destroyed and his recipe is stolen by an unscrupulous Scottish industrialist.

17 When I could no longer concentrate on Greek and the alphabet began to transmute itself into incoherent triangles and pitchforks, I read The Great Gatsby.

18 The specific achievement of this movie, recently named the best picture of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., is to explore evil without glamorizing it, and to transmute the mundane into something quietly mesmerizing.

19 I exhausted myself in the effort to see it, but the pictures I saw, the experiences I had, were utterly transmuted by the galvanic process that befell them in my imagination.

20 Eliot and Woolf certainly, but Forster too transmuted private paralysis into astonishing monuments to collective catastrophe.

1 变形

corrupt metabolic warped metamorphic anamorphic malformed heterotypic deformative set strain translation modification transformation variant corruption metabolism warp curvature metastasis deformation metamorphosis malformation transfiguration transmutation meta- transform rack deform metamorphose turn resolve translate buckle disguise transpose transfigure unmold transmogrify deformalize in winding flow distortion breakout dysmorphia aliasing give bag distort out of shape changeable metamorphism contort crooked transformational variety twisted deformed contortion weather yield transmutative metabolous version resolution diastrophism unmake

2 变化

change variety variation twist mutation gradation transmutation trans- range break vary translate differentiate changing shifting transformation turn variant mutant variance vicissitude chiaroscuro fluxion wax influence interchange mutate floating over metamorphosis pass varied meta- difference alteration crossover move develop diversify morph oscillate metamorphose break down metabolic metamorphic movement shift resolution transition inequality modulation metamorphism fall transform conjugate variate moving of the waters

3 变性

metamorphosis denature

4 使变化

turn vary variate

5 变质

degenerate off metamorphic transubstantial disease translation transformation alteration degeneration decomposition metamorphosis transmutation metamorphism transubstantiation turn spoil transubstantiate metamorphose vitiate unmake spoilage perish mutant transform bad rot deteriorate rancid addled go off transmutative metabolous deterioration curdle denature

6 使变质

metamorphose vitiate turn

7 嬗变

transmutation

8 使变形

distort metamorphose transmogrify turn deform translate strain transfigure unmake

9 彻底改变

switch switchover reverse metamorphose transmogrify