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发音： [ˌmetəˈmɔrˌfoʊz]
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例句：
- If you want to describe something changed completely from one status to another by its physical form or nature, then you can use metamorphose.
- In our daily lives, we can notice that a butterfly is transformed from its cocoon, and this process is called “metamorphose.”
- In many sci-fic movies, scenarios in which radiation metamorphoses people into giant bugs are prevalent.
- Founders of technique companies have to convince investors that, with time and dollars, their companies will metamorphose into fat, pearly unicorns.
- Because Mars lacks plate tectonics, its rocks haven’t been heavily metamorphosed by internal heat and pressure, as they were on Earth.
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解释：
- Metamorphose这个单词为动词，表示“change into a different physical form especially by supernatural means”，即”变化/变形/转变”这一含义，其与transform/mutate/transmute这些单词构成近义词。注意：根据该单词的英文释义，其核心含义在于表现一种“蜕变/蝶变”，这种变化通常表示“彻底的/根本性的巨大转变“，就像 A caterpillar emerge from its cocoon and is transformed into a butterfly （毛毛虫从茧中冒出来，变成了蝴蝶。）
- metamorphose除了表示在物理形态上的（physical）改变，该单词也可以用于描述抽象对象（nature or character)的转变与改变，即“to change drastically the nature or character of somebody or something.”
- 具体使用场景如下：
- As soon as beetle eggs metamorphose into vulnerable larvae, the mother releases a hormone that blocks her egg production. （一旦甲虫卵蜕变成脆弱的幼虫，母亲就会释放一种激素，阻止她的卵子产生。）
–Science - If I was a computer, and also I discovered I’d been created by a race of rapidly metamorphosing monsters, I would try to destroy the planet. （如果我是一台电脑，同时我发现我是由一个快速演变的怪物种族创造，我会试图摧毁这个星球。）
–Science - When someone or something changes in appearance, they metamorphose, the way a messy kid does when he tucks in his shirt and combs his hair.（当某人或某物的外表发生变化时，他们就在蜕变，就像一个乱糟糟的孩子开始好好整理自己的衬衫以及打理自己的头发那样。）
–Culture - Jack seems to metamorphose overnight from most- to least-stressed individual in our company.（杰克似乎在一夜之间从我们公司压力最大的人变成了压力最小的人。）
–News - This date marks the point at which Antonio Machado metamorphosed from a writer of romantic trifles into a master of psychological realism, seemingly overnight.（这一天标志着马查多似乎在一夜之间从一个浪漫琐事作家蜕变成心理现实主义大师。）
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