词族 · transmute
中文词源
transmute 使变化，变质，变形
trans-,转移，转变，-mut,改变，词源同 mutate,mutual.
英语词源
- transmute (v.)
- late 14c., "transform the appearance of," from Latin transmutare "to change" (see transmutation). Related: Transmuted; transmuting.
权威例句
- 1. Medieval alchemists attempted to transmute base metals into gold.
- 中世纪的炼丹术士企图把贱金属炼成金.
- 2. We can transmute water power into electrical power.
- 我们能将水力变成电力.
- 3. One of the supreme quests of alchemy is to transmute lead into gold.
- 炼金术的终极目的之一是将铅转化为金。
- 4. It is possible to transmute one form of energy into another.
- 把某种形态的能量改变成另一形态的能量是可能的.
- 5. A radioactive atom could transmute itself into an entirely different kind of atom.
- 放射性原子本身能嬗变为性质完全不同的另一种原子.