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vt. 改变，变换8 次
The Gutenberg printing press transformed civilisation not by changing the nature of writing but by changing its cost — and it would have achieved little without a parallel collapse in the price of surfaces to write on, thanks to an often-overlooked technology called paper.
古腾堡印刷机改变文明，并非通过改变书写的本质，而是通过改变其成本——而如果没有书写载体价格的同步暴跌，它也难有作为，这要归功于一项常被忽视的技术：纸。
Solar panels had few niche uses until they became cheap; now they are transforming the global energy system.
太阳能电池板在变得便宜之前几乎只有一些小众用途；如今它们正在改变全球能源体系。
They transform the aspirations of the people who live there; they nudge the self-image of the city into a bolder and more optimistic light.
它们改变了当地居民的抱负；它们推动城市的自我形象变得更大胆、更乐观。
Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activities and goals in much more detail, day by day.
《混乱：无序改变生活的力量》一书的作者蒂姆·哈福德提到20世纪80年代初的一项研究，该研究把大学生分成两组：一组被建议制定每月的目标和学习活动；另一组则被要求逐日、更加详细地规划活动和目标。
It’s not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.
对他们来说，转变思维过程并不像对年龄较大的学生那样困难。
But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.
但要把一项发现主张转变为成熟的发现，需要集体的审视和认可。
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As a discovery claim works its way through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discovery.
随着一项发现主张在科学界中逐步推进，关于所涉科学和技术的共同信念与相互竞争的信念之间的互动和交锋，把个人的发现主张转变为科学界可信的发现。
And it transformed public history too: downstairs became just as fascinating as upstairs.
它也改变了公众历史：楼下的仆人与楼上的主人变得同样引人入胜。
vt. 改造，改造2 次
The success of Sci-Hub, which relies on researchers passing on copies they have themselves legally accessed, shows the legal ecosystem has lost legitimacy among its users and must be transformed so that it works for all participants.
Sci-Hub依靠研究人员转发他们自己合法获取的副本而取得成功，这表明合法的出版生态系统已在其用户中失去了正当性，必须加以变革，使其对所有参与者都有效。
It is not, however, a sign that they’re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.
然而，这并不表明他们开始认真对待为适应21世纪而改造邮政系统的问题。