transfiguration
n. 变形,变貌,(耶稣在三个门徒前的)变容
1. a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances;
2. the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify
For the brief space that it lasted, it was a dark transfiguration.
在那蹙额皱眉的刹那间, 那可真是一种阴森的变脸.
It was a sudden transfiguration , a lifting - up of day.
那是突如其来的变形, 是白昼的升华.
It was less a reform than a transfiguration.
他这时候与其说是洗面革心,不如说是改头换面.
We never use transfiguration as a punishment!
阿拉斯特,我们从不用变形魔法惩罚学生!
This was in a much later book, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace.
这一点写在很晚才出的一本书里, 《寻常物的转化》.