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

• In his book the function of television was to edify, not to entertain.
  按照他的看法，电视的职能在于教育，而不在于娱乐。
• Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.
  我们的使命是摧毁，而不是教诲。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In developing and forming the students moral character, concealed moral education can well represent in the functions of recognition guidance, feeling edify and behavior criterion.
  隐性德育对学生思想品德的形成和发展的作用突出表现在认识导向功能、情感陶冶功能、行为规范功能等方面。
• Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
  所以我们务要追求和睦的事，与彼此建立德行的事。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。