词组 | transmute |
释义 | transmute When this somewhat bookish verb is followed by a preposition, the preposition is almost always into: • ... took the national anguish ... and transmuted it into wildly successful comedy —Richard Grenier, Cosmopolitan, October 1976 • ... Melville transmutes the lowly fact ... into a meditation on mankind —John Updike, New Yorker, 10 May 1982 A much less common preposition after transmute is to: • ... such a star transmutes lighter elements to heavier ones —Dietrick E. Thomsen, Science News, 10 Aug. 1985 |
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