变成 B10-13

想法变成行动, 虚变实

• change/convert/transform/translate/transmute into
• They have transformed their original death metal works into a well regulated genre in a few years.
• The challenge of music composition is to translate ideas into symbols, and symbols into sound.

变成了, 变得

• become
• As the future becomes menacing and uncertain, only fools put off until tomorrow the fun they can have today.
• By the '90s, gangsta rap, which originally was in direct opposition to such pop-oriented rappers as MC Hammer, had become smoothed over and stylish, and consequently was more popular than ever, as evidenced by the success of pop-gangsta Puff Daddy.
• turn/evolve into
• Indie music has rapidly evolved into its maturity.

变为, 退化为(贬义)

• be reduced to
• To a certain extent, education is being reduced to an instrument which indoctrinate young people with some slanted and biased political ideas.

归结, 简化

• reduce the problems/arguments/ideas to an issue
• On the surface, all the music composition and production issues can be reduced to a wide range of issues on manipulating time.
• To reduce all scientific knowledge to mathematical expressions does not necessarily mean to gain an understanding of the information we have accumulated about the natural world.