transfiguration
n. 變形,變貌,(耶穌在三個門徒前的)變容
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.
在那蹙額皺眉的剎那間, 那可真是一種陰森的變臉.
It was a sudden transfiguration , a lifting - up of day.
那是突如其來的變形, 是白晝的昇華.
It was less a reform than a transfiguration.
他這時候與其說是洗面革心,不如說是改頭換面.
We never use transfiguration as a punishment!
阿拉斯特,我們從不用變形魔法懲罰學生!
This was in a much later book, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace.
這一點寫在很晚才出的一本書裡, 《尋常物的轉化》.