Jim's got some half-baked idea about converting his garage into a sauna.

吉姆初步计划把他的车库改造成一个蒸汽浴室。

His plans for converting his house into an antique shop are just pie in the sky.

他想把他的房子改造成一个古玩店, 那种计划只不过是空想已。

The spinar is a gigantic machine converting gravitational binding energy into electromagnetic radiation by means of rotation.

旋转体是一架通过自转把引力束缚转换为电磁辐射的巨大机器。

We already possess, in the artesian well, the means of converting unfertile wastes into rich corn fields;and what unknown forces may not yet be hidden in the interior of the earth?

我们已经够靠了自流井把不毛之地变成膏壤，地质也许还有什么未知力量在潜伏中有待发现，断言呢？