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单词 transmute
释义
transmute
verb[IorT,usually+ adv/prep]
chemistryformalorspecialized
uk
/trænzˈmjuːt/us
/trænsˈmjuːt/
tochangesomethingcompletely,especiallyinto something different andbetter:
彻底改变（尤指变成更好的他物）
A fewcenturiesago alchemiststhoughtthey could transmuteleadintogold.几个世纪以前炼金术士以为他们能把铅变成金子。
Plutonium transmutesinto/touraniumwhen it isprocessedin anuclearreactor.钚在核反应堆中经过处理就变成了铀。
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transmutation
(Definition oftransmutefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftransmute

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Attitudes are transmuted and adapted but remain fundamentally what they have been for generations.
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In this work vocal soundstransmuteinto other voices, perform impossible acrobatics, and dissolve into granular textures.
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Her aria and their actions demonstrate the implacability of a desire that should have been stilled, or indeed, transmuted by their accession to power.
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In the records she is ostensibly present, but is actually lost to her translated, transmuted, and sexualized inscription.
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Its members were transmuted into true intellectuals by a process of revision that usually originated in personal examination.
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Nevertheless, just as the possession of a generous income was transmuted into a form of self-sacrice, so too was the prospect of marriage.
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But almost at once the process of exposition starts to waver ortransmute.
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The necessity for an existential dimension to the work in hand becomes transmuted into a preference, even a quest for the elimination of the casual.
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Almost all alchemical treatments and operations were directed toward changing the properties of fusible bodies or transmuting them into each other.
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The pluriactive family eventually transmuted into the small entrepreneur as market conditions improved.
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Similarly, it can be transmuted for oneself into such a concern.
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The liberalist turn in the 1920s could not last for long and the critique of the superseding sovereign nation state transmuted into hegemonic regionalism in the 1930s.
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An atmosphere of wholeness permeated the entire enterprise, transmuting it into a kind of magic and enshrining it in the minds of those who had been there.
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As a consequence, his bird-bride and their "bairnies three"transmuteinto gulls and take to the skies, leaving the hunter asking whether they will ever return.
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The important thing within the ritual of confession is not only to confess to acts that transgress the law, but also totransmuteone's desire into a form of discourse.
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