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发音：[trænzˈmjut]
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例句：
- The word transmute means to change or convert something from one form, appearance, or state to another. It is often used to describe a significant change that alters the fundamental nature of something.
- To change base metals into gold, it was necessary to possess knowledge of certain elements and be willing to experiment physically, which was a way to transmute them.
- When uranium 238 captures neutrons and turns into plutonium 239, it is said that uranium has been transmuted.
- Social media has provided a channel to channel our workplace anger, which we cannot usually change, to all areas of life, allowing us to transmute our feelings.
- Newton was a committed alchemist who devoted thirty years of his life to working on a dark furnace, attempting to find a way to transmute one chemical element into another.
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解释：
- Transmute这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to change or convert something from one form, appearance, or state to another”这一含义，即“改变/使变形/转变”，与transform/metamorphose/convert这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- They receive crude materials from the soil and the air and transmute them into starch under the action of sunlight.（它们从土壤和空气中接收粗材料，并在阳光的作用下将它们转化为淀粉。）
–Science - As I traveled, I became increasingly interested in van Gogh, who transformed what he saw into even more realistic images, which is referred to as transmuting reality.（随着我的旅行，我对梵高越来越感兴趣，他将他所看到的转化为更逼真的图像，这被称为转化现实。）
–Arts - Darwin’s question was about how organisms transmute information about their characteristics over a thousand generations.（达尔文的问题是关于生物体如何在一千代中转换有关其特征的信息。）
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