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commute
1、 To exchange or substitute; especially to change a penalty to another one that is less severe.
2、 To travel back and forth regularly.
🌱There was a public outcry at the harshness of the prison sentence, and two days later the governor commuted it to five years. 🌳When you commute between a suburb and a city, you're "exchanging" one location for another. When a chief executive substitutes a life sentence for the death sentence handed down by a court, he or she is commuting the original sentence. Most such commutations are the result of the prisoner's good behavior. A commutator is a device in many electric motors that regularly changes alternating current to direct current. immutable Not able or liable to change.
🌱Early philosophers believed there was an immutable substance at the root of all existence. 🌳Mutable means simply "changeable," so when the negative prefix im- is added we get its opposite. In computer programming, an immutable object is one that can't be changed after it's been created. In a constantly changing world, people who hunger for things as immutable as the laws of nature may try to observe an immutable moral code and set of values. Unfortunately, immutability isn't a basic quality of many things in this world. permutation A change in the order of a set of objects; rearrangement, variation.
🌱They had rearranged the rooms in the house plans four or five times already, but the architect had come up with yet another permutation. 🌳There are six permutations of the letters A, B, and C, selected two at a time: AB, AC, BC, BA, CA, and CB. As you see, order is important in permutations. （By contrast, there are only three combinations: AB, AC, and BC.） Permutation is an important concept in mathematics, especially in the field of probability. But we can use the word more generally to mean any change produced by rearranging existing parts without introducing new ones. Some soap operas, for example, love permutations; the cast of regulars is constantly being rearranged into new pairs, and even triangles. transmute 1、 To change in shape, appearance, or nature, especially for the better; to transform.
2、 To experience such a change.
🌱Working alone in his cluttered laboratory in 15th-century Milan, he spent twenty years searching for a method of transmuting lead into gold. 🌳Transmutation changes something over into something else. Thus, a writer may transmute his life into stories or novels, and an arranger might transmute a lively march tune into a quiet lullaby. In the "Myth of Er" at the end of Plato's Republic, for example, human souls are transmuted into the body and existence of their choice. Having learned from their last life what they do not want to be, many choose transmutation into something that seems better. A meek man chooses to be transmuted into a tyrant, a farmer into a dashing （but short-lived） warrior, and so on. But very few seem to have learned anything from their former life that would make their choice a real improvement.
2、 To travel back and forth regularly.
🌱There was a public outcry at the harshness of the prison sentence, and two days later the governor commuted it to five years. 🌳When you commute between a suburb and a city, you're "exchanging" one location for another. When a chief executive substitutes a life sentence for the death sentence handed down by a court, he or she is commuting the original sentence. Most such commutations are the result of the prisoner's good behavior. A commutator is a device in many electric motors that regularly changes alternating current to direct current. immutable Not able or liable to change.
🌱Early philosophers believed there was an immutable substance at the root of all existence. 🌳Mutable means simply "changeable," so when the negative prefix im- is added we get its opposite. In computer programming, an immutable object is one that can't be changed after it's been created. In a constantly changing world, people who hunger for things as immutable as the laws of nature may try to observe an immutable moral code and set of values. Unfortunately, immutability isn't a basic quality of many things in this world. permutation A change in the order of a set of objects; rearrangement, variation.
🌱They had rearranged the rooms in the house plans four or five times already, but the architect had come up with yet another permutation. 🌳There are six permutations of the letters A, B, and C, selected two at a time: AB, AC, BC, BA, CA, and CB. As you see, order is important in permutations. （By contrast, there are only three combinations: AB, AC, and BC.） Permutation is an important concept in mathematics, especially in the field of probability. But we can use the word more generally to mean any change produced by rearranging existing parts without introducing new ones. Some soap operas, for example, love permutations; the cast of regulars is constantly being rearranged into new pairs, and even triangles. transmute 1、 To change in shape, appearance, or nature, especially for the better; to transform.
2、 To experience such a change.
🌱Working alone in his cluttered laboratory in 15th-century Milan, he spent twenty years searching for a method of transmuting lead into gold. 🌳Transmutation changes something over into something else. Thus, a writer may transmute his life into stories or novels, and an arranger might transmute a lively march tune into a quiet lullaby. In the "Myth of Er" at the end of Plato's Republic, for example, human souls are transmuted into the body and existence of their choice. Having learned from their last life what they do not want to be, many choose transmutation into something that seems better. A meek man chooses to be transmuted into a tyrant, a farmer into a dashing （but short-lived） warrior, and so on. But very few seem to have learned anything from their former life that would make their choice a real improvement.
MUT comes from the Latin mutare,"to change." Plenty of science-fiction movies—Godzilla, The Fly, The Incredible Shrinking Man—used to be made on the subject of weird mutations, changes in normal people or animals that usually end up causing death and destruction. What causes the unfortunate victim to mutate may be a mysterious or alien force, or perhaps invisible radiation. Though the science in these films isn't always right on target, the scare factor of an army of mutants can be hard to beat.🌸