metamorphosis
n. 变形(尤指从蛹变为昆虫); (性格、环境等的)改变
When a metamorphosis occurs, a person or thing develops and changes into something completely different.
...his metamorphosis from a republican to a democrat...
他从共和党人到民主党人的倒戈
The employment department has undergone several metamor-phoses.
就业部已经经历了数次改革。
1. the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals
2. a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances;
3. a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft
She's undergone quite a metamorphosis since you last saw her.
自你上次见到她以来,她已完全变了一个样子.
Low temperature keep the foods from metamorphosis.
低温使食物不会变质.
Kafka Franz. The metamorphosis. New York: Bantam Books 1986.
法兰兹.卡夫卡, 《变形记》, 纽约: 班腾出版社,1986.
Known noticanthiforms don't change much in size during the metamorphosis from larva to adult.
在从幼年到成年的变形过程中,这种鱼的大小不会有很大改变.
Tadpoles become frogs by metamorphosis ; they lose their tails and grow legs.
蝌蚪因蜕变而变成青蛙; 它们去掉了尾巴、了腿.