transubstantiation

noun

1. 实体变换，体变（指面饼和葡萄酒经祝圣后变成基督的体血，只留下饼酒的外形）
   the belief that the bread and wine of the Communion service become the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ after they have been blessed , even though they still look like bread and wine

1. Egyptian priests practiced "transubstantiation", claiming to be able to transfer the sun god Osiris into a circular wafer.
   古埃及祭司也有“圣餐仪式”，他们声称能够把太阳神奥西里斯转化到一个圆形的薄饼里。
2. My story "Transubstantiation" won the2006 Prix Aurora Award, Canada's national science fiction award, for Best Short-Form Work in English.
   我的小说《质变》赢得了加拿大国家科幻奖&曙光奖的2006年度最佳英文短篇小说奖。
3. Both rejected transubstantiation as well as the Roman Catholic understanding of the mass as a sacrifice.
   都拒绝化质说，以及罗马天主教把弥撒当作献祭的认识。
4. Jean turned to the viewport and thought of the phoenix once more, the transubstantiation of an entire race.
   吉音转向窗口，又想起了整个因维人族群变作的凤凰。

noun

1. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something

   Synonym:    transmutation

2. the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist