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词汇 transmuted
释义 transmuted
past simple and past participle oftransmute
transmute
verb[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ]
 chemistry formal or specializeduk /trænzˈmjuːt/ us /trænsˈmjuːt/
to change something completely, especially into something different and better: 彻底改变(尤指变成更好的他物)
A few centuries ago alchemists thought they could transmute lead into gold.几个世纪以前炼金术士以为他们能把铅变成金子。
Plutonium transmutes into/to uranium when it is processed in a nuclear reactor.钚在核反应堆中经过处理就变成了铀。
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Examples of transmuted


transmuted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Attitudes are transmuted and adapted but remain fundamentally what they have been for generations.
If a seed has absorbed water or germinated, it is considered transmuted (transmuted seed: status 1; untransmuted: status 0).
Her aria and their actions demonstrate the implacability of a desire that should have been stilled, or indeed, transmuted by their accession to power.
In the records she is ostensibly present, but is actually lost to her translated, transmuted, and sexualized inscription.
Its members were transmuted into true intellectuals by a process of revision that usually originated in personal examination.
Nevertheless, just as the possession of a generous income was transmuted into a form of self-sacrice, so too was the prospect of marriage.
The necessity for an existential dimension to the work in hand becomes transmuted into a preference, even a quest for the elimination of the casual.
The pluriactive family eventually transmuted into the small entrepreneur as market conditions improved.
Similarly, it can be transmuted for oneself into such a concern.
This article has also set out to show that when political identities are transmuted into political action, the religiosity of politics is frequently implicit to that process.
It cannot cure our awful unemployment problem: it is only of help when it is transmuted, transformed, through engineering into useful ends.
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I hope and believe that all that has been said and done will be transmuted into human happiness where there would otherwise be misery.
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They cause embarrassment which is transmuted into discrimination.
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I should like to see the creation of an "elephants' graveyard" where outdated charities could be painlessly dispatched or transmuted to more relevant purposes.
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The much vaunted freedom of establishment would become transmuted into a constant pressure to migrate to the current centres of economic activity.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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