You can think of it as digging a living plant out of the soil it has been growing in, carrying it somewhere else, and settling its roots into new ground — the same living thing, but now rooted in a different place.
From the word’s history
From Late Latin transplantare = trans- (across) + plantare (to plant): literally 'to plant across', i.e. to lift something rooted and re-root it elsewhere. Middle English took it in through Old French transplanter.
這個字來自晚期拉丁文 transplantare，就是 trans-（越過、到另一邊）加上 plantare（栽種），字面意思是「種到另一邊去」。所以它從一開始講的就是把已經紮根的東西抬起來、在別處重新種下——現代英文裡不管搬的是一棵樹、一顆腎臟還是一種生活方式，用的都還是同一個動作。
Wiktionary (transplant, etymology: Middle English transplaunten < Old French transplanter < Late Latin transplantare, trans- + plant)
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原始詞典資料8 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。
transplantverb/tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/
- 1
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
- Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
- A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.
- 2
To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
- But after half a year the Russian Government prohibited its circulation, and as a consequence the paper ceased to appear. He then went to Tschernowitz and started a Folksblatt. Upon the advice of a friend he transplanted his paper to Jassy, Roumania.
- Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.
- 3
medicinesciencesTo transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
transplantnoun/ˈtɹɑːnzplɑːnt/
- 1
An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
- 2
Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
- 3
medicinesciencesAn operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
- 4
medicinesciencesA transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
- 5
Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
- The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
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