There's a well-known Norwegian supernatural folk tale, a transformation story called East of the Sun and West of the Moon, which we'll read.

有一个著名的挪威民间变形故事，叫做《阳之东，月之西》，后面我们会读到。

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Psychologists have long held that a person's character cannot undergo a transformation in any meaningful way and that the key traits of personality are determined at a very young age.

心理学家长期以来一直认为，一个人的性格不可能以任何有意义的方式发生转变，性格的关键特征在很小的时候就已经决定了。

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What a transformation! You look great.

真是判若两人！你看上去真神气。

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"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

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Following a transformation the study of which is not the concern of the social sciences but rather of biology and psychology, a crossing over came about from a stage where nothing had a meaning to another where everything possessed it.

这门学科并不属社会科学的范畴,而是属于生物学，心理学，此种转变是一种跨越，从一个什么都没有意义的时代到,一个每样东西都能表达的时代的。

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Now never mind that our own experience with virgins has failed to afford us such a spectacle of bodily transformation.

没有关系，如果我们关于贞操的知识,之前未能告诉我们如此壮观的身体转换。

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And he says such a transformation isn't unusual at this stage in a presidency.

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With its third edition (DSM-III), the manual (which had existed since 1952) underwent a transformation.

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What private equity knew with Nielsen, then called VNU, is that it was a transformation.

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