Conversion
[kən'vɜːʃ(ə)n] or [kən'vɝʒn]
解释:
(noun.) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life.
(noun.) a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown.
(noun.) the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another.
(noun.) act of exchanging one type of money or security for another.
(noun.) a change in the units or form of an expression: 'conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade'.
(noun.) interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition.
(noun.) a change of religion; 'his conversion to the Catholic faith'.
(noun.) an event that results in a transformation.
(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis.
编辑:洛拉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
(n.) The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
(n.) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.
(n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
(n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
(n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
(n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
(n.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.
校对:马蒂
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Transmutation, transformation, change.[2]. Interchange, transposition.
手打:索菲
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge
ANT:Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity
校对:齐利格
例句:
- Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- To Ph?nicians after the falls of Tyre and Carthage, conversion to Judaism must have been particularly easy and attractive. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He had a passion for the argumentative conversion of heretics, and he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to go and preach to the Albigenses. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It preached Romanism; it persuaded to conversion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- This conversion arises from the relation of objects to ourself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The love of honour turns to love of money; the conversion is instantaneous. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Gun cotton is made by treating raw cotton with nitric acid, to which a proportion of sulphuric acid is added to maintain the strength of the nitric acid and effect a more perfect conversion. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Great hopes were entertained by the papacy for the conversion of the Mongols to Christianity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- However natural that conversion may seem, we cannot be sure it is practicable, before we have had experience of it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- In sympathy there is an evident conversion of an idea into an impression. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries a steady process of conversion to Christianity went on amidst these German and Slavonic tribes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion on yourselves! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Such a conversion is called work as distinguished from drop, although a fall of initial electrical pressure is involved in each case. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Go to, knave, what pratest thou of conversions? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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