edify

英 [ˈedɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈedɪfaɪ]

v.  教化; 启迪; 教诲

现在分词：edifying　过去分词：edified　过去式：edified　第三人称单数：edifies　

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BNC.37135 / COCA.28444

牛津词典

verb

• 教化；启迪；教诲
  to improve people's minds or characters by teaching them about sth

英英释义

verb

• make understand
  1. Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
  Synonym:enlighten

双语例句

• From leisure, not only can people recover and edify, but they also make up for in intelligence and inspired inventions.
  在休闲中，人们不仅可以恢复体力、陶冶情操，而且可以弥补智力以及获得灵感进行发明创造。
• This column introduces new technology and offers new information and mold and dies technology marrow, which can edify readers in mind. Assessment on Effectiveness of Free Drug Supplied to Poverty Schizophrenics in Beijing Mentougou District
  介绍新技术，提供新信息，模具技术精粹，给读者以思维的启迪。北京市门头沟区向贫困精神分裂症患者免费供药效果评价
• His correspondence theory of truth has its characteristics and edify.
  他的真理符合论有它的独特之处，同时也存在着局限性。
• I can just manage to string a few words of French together. It is our sincere wish that through these messages, we encourage one another and edify one another.
  我只能勉强把法语的几个词拼凑在一起.深盼藉著话语的交通，和众肢体彼此勉励、此成全。
• Today, in a multicultural, dolls still practice the other its mission as human beings, in the expansion of new functionality to become contemporary comfort and edify people and with people who grow up together.
  在多元文化的今天，人偶仍旧实践着作为人类另一个自己的使命，在新的功能性的拓展下成为当代人的慰藉者和陶冶者并伴随人一同成长。
• You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me such.
  你知道，我是个不可救药的人，宗教对这种问题的看法对我没多大教益。
• I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
  我认为我的朋友鲁克夫人目前的工作既不会使我感兴趣，也不会给我带来影响。
• My father has a little bit famous at local, although I didn't get any educate, maybe has some edify or heredity!
  我父亲是个当地小有名气的画家，我虽说没接触过训练，也许还是受这方面的熏陶或遗传吧！
• The works of reading can best embody humanistic feature, can promote the personality, edify sentiment, also can examine a personal experience and comprehension, the degree and level of appreciation.
  其作品的阅读最能体现人文性的特征，最能提升人格、陶冶情操，也最能考察一个人体验、感悟、鉴赏的程度和水平。
• The tasks of prose teaching are to acquire knowledge, foster abilities, edify sentiment and irradiate the mind.
  散文教学的任务是获取知识，培养能力，陶冶情操，启迪心智。