metamorphosis
metamorphosis 英 [ˌmetəˈmɔ:fəsɪs] 美 [ˌmetəˈmɔrfəsɪs]
n. 变形；变质
名词复数:metamorphoses
- In Kafka's novel entitled Metamorphosis, a man wakes up to find he has turned into a cockroach. That kind of complete and startling change pretty much sums up the word.
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- n. 变形；变质
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1. Morgan Stanley is a caterpillar in metamorphosis.
摩根士丹利是一只正在变形的毛毛虫。
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2. the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly
从毛毛虫到蝴蝶的蜕变
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3. She had undergone an amazing metamorphosis from awkward schoolgirl to beautiful woman.
她经历了从笨女生到大美人这一令人惊讶的变化。
- metamorphosis (n.) 1530s, "change of form or shape," especially by witchcraft, from Latin metamorphosis, from Greek metamorphosis "a transforming, a transformation," from metamorphoun "to transform, to be transfigured," from meta- "change" (see meta-) + morphe "shape, form" (see Morpheus). Biological sense is from 1660s. As the title of Ovid's work, late 14c., Metamorphoseos, from Latin Metamorphoses (plural).
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