A series of colourful digital portraits suddenly metamorphosed into pictures of antique carpets.

一系列五颜六色的数字肖像突然变成了古董地毯的图片。

And after metamorphosing into the adult butterfly, their bright colours advertise their toxicity.

在变成成年蝴蝶后翅膀上鲜艳的颜色表明，它体内有剧毒。

Phaethon's sisters gathered on the riverbank to weep, gradually metamorphosing into poplar trees that leaked precious amber into the water.

Phaethon 的姐妹在河岸边为他哭泣，渐渐作了一棵棵杨树，向水中滴入一颗颗珍贵的琥珀。

Maybe you would see him metamorphosing.

也许你会看到他变了。

Their rickety cottage had metamorphosed into a gleaming temple for the gods.

他欲坠的小屋已经变成了一座闪闪发光的神殿。

They multiply and metamorphose— substituting their rounded structures for elongated thread-like forms called hyphae.

它繁殖和变形——用它的圆形构代替称为菌丝的细长线状形式。

The surface of Venus, meanwhile, is hot enough to melt lead—hot enough that McSween thinks most of its surface rock should have metamorphosed.

与此同时，金星表面的温度足以，麦克斯温认为金星表面的大部分岩石应该已经变质。

But the mermaid metamorphosed herself quickly and got away like a meteor.

但美人鱼很快变形然后像流星一样离开了。

The simplest explanation for this is that the axolotl lineage alone lost the ability to metamorphose, while others retained it.

最简单的解释就是只有美西螈家系失去了变形能力，而其他家系都保持着这种能力。

On Earth, there's an efficient way " to get those rocks up to the surface and cycle surface rocks down to be metamorphosed, " McSween says.

在地球上，有一种有效的方法可以“将这些岩石带到地表，并将地表岩石循环下来，使其变质，”麦克斯温说。

Inside a tunnel, ball, or pat, once the larvae hatch, they consume the dung before metamorphosing into a pupa and then an adult beetle.

在通道、粪球或粪块之内，一旦幼虫孵出来，会以粪便为食，直至成蛹，之后发育成为成年蜣螂。

Like a flash the beast wheeled upon its tormentor, and, in the briefest instant of turning, the placid, friendly animal was metamorphosed to a frenzied demon of rage.

就像闪电一样， 这头野兽转向了它的折磨者， 在最短暂的转身瞬间， 这只平静、友好的动物变成了一只狂怒的恶魔。

From a detailed analysis of the salamanders' family tree, however, it is clear that the other lineages evolved from an ancestor that itself had lost the ability to metamorphose.

然而，从一个详细的蝾螈的家谱分析可以看出，其他家系是从一个本身就失去变形能力的祖先进而来的。

The juvenile stages of some insects, for example, have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts.

例如许多昆虫的幼虫时期有着和成年时期完全不同的口器类型，比如毛虫在变成蝴蝶和飞蛾之前会用咀嚼式口器来吞食叶子，而蝴蝶和飞蛾则是虹吸式口器。

And then the waves rolled in furiously—the neutral green-and-blue tongues of water slid up the slopes, and were metamorphosed into foam by a careless blow, falling back white and faint, and leaving trailing followers behind.

然后海浪猛烈地滚来滚去——中性的绿蓝相间的水舌顺着斜坡滑上，被一个粗心的打击变成了泡沫，回落成白色和微弱的颜色，留下尾随的追随者。