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動詞

turn into (third-person singular simple present turns into, present participle turning into, simple past and past participle turned into)

1. (intransitive) To become.

   Synonyms: turn to, convert to, convert into, change into, change to, transform into, transform to

   Near-synonyms: (intransitive) get, turn, go, come, fall, grow, wax; (reflexive) make [oneself], make [oneself] into

   all things turn into dust

   Iron turns into rust in the presence of air and water.

2. (transitive) To cause (something or someone) to become.

   Synonyms: turn to, convert to, convert into, change into, change to, transform into, transform to

   Near-synonyms: (transitive) make, make into

   He turned water into wine.

   • 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     "I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."

   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn,‎ into.

   I was just turning into my driveway when I got your call.

引用

• 1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote)

  [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch?

  [Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt!

  [Sir Bedevere]: A newt?

  [Peasant]: ... I got better.

同意語

• (intransitive: become): become
• (transitive: cause to become): make, make into

派生語

• you can't turn a hoe into a housewife

参考

• turn
• turn in
• turn into a pumpkin

アナグラム

• notturni, uttronin