- 1nC1/ˌtrænsfəˈmeɪʃən/轉變、蛻變
A complete change in someone or something, often making them much better or very different.
示範例句 · Example
The old factory went through an amazing transformation into an art museum.
逐字那間舊工廠經歷了一次驚人的轉變，變成一座美術館。
transformation 是「徹底的改變」，一個人或一樣東西從原本的樣子完全變成另一個樣子。它比 change 更強：change 可以是小小的變化，transformation 是大到讓人幾乎認不出來。常搭配 undergo a transformation（經歷一次徹底的轉變）。
常見搭配
undergo a transformation
經歷徹底的轉變
to change completely
The town has undergone a huge transformation.
a complete transformation
徹底的改變
a total change
Her new haircut was a complete transformation.
a dramatic transformation
戲劇性的轉變
a striking, very noticeable change
The team made a dramatic transformation this season.
transformation from something to/into something
從某物變成另一物
a change from one thing into another
the transformation from woodland into farmland
core核心畫面
You can picture a itself into a cocoon and coming out a butterfly — the same creature, but its whole shape and form have been made over. Transformation is that kind of deep, all-the-way change, not a small tweak.
From the word’s history
From Latin trans- 'across, over' + forma 'shape, form' — literally to carry something across into a new shape. The 'change of form' is written right into the word.
來自拉丁文 trans-（跨過、越過）加上 forma（形狀、外形），字面就是「把一個東西跨越、搬進一個新的形狀裡」。「換一個形」這件事本來就寫在字裡。
etymonline.com/word/transform
容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
transformationnoun/ˌtɹæns.fə(ɹ)ˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
- undergo a radical transformation
- “This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing.
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A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
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mathematicssciencesThe replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
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biologygeneticsmedicineThe alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
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governmentpoliticsThe transition from the apartheid era to a multiracial democracy in South Africa.
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obsoleteA woman's wig.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。