Conversion

(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

• 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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