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　

TOEFLGREIELTS

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

• It has awakened, contact and the integration of the personality of man power, it through the excavation and cultivate aesthetic ability, through constructing people aesthetic psychological structure of interior edify and achieves person personality mold.
  它具有唤醒、联系和整合人格的力量，它通过对人审美能力的发掘和培养，通过建构人的审美心理结构达到人的心灵陶冶和人格塑造。
• The hardware facilities, such as buildings, equipments, greening and beautifying which provides good external conditions can promote and edify the teachers'professional developments.
  学校建筑、装备举措措施、绿化美化等学校硬件举措措施为教师专业发铺提供良好的外部环境，具有激励和熏陶作用；
• 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。
• The education of art can waken the students 'imagination and ideation as well as purify their souls and edify their sentiment. It is quite important for the cultivation of creative personnel in the new century.
  艺术教育既可以起到净化心灵，陶冶情操，鼓舞斗志，弘扬正气的作用，又能激发人的想象力和形象思维能力，进而促进逻辑思维，对培养新世纪创新人才具有重要意义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Edify yourself, build up your spiritual relaity on the holiest word of god.
  在上帝至圣的真道上来建造自己。
• 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。
• 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。