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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• To actualize aesthetic education in geography teaching could make students gain broader knowledge, develop their intelligence and enhance their ability. Meanwhile, it can edify their sentiments and improve their accomplishments. This is the essential approach to upgrade students 'comprehensive qualities in full scale.
  在中学地理教学中实施审美教育，可以使学生在审美状态中获得知识、开发智力、提高能力，同时陶冶审美情感，提高审美素养，是全面提升学生综合素质的必要途径。
• 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。
• 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。
• Meanwhile it also holds rich and colorful activities to widen the view and edify the sentiment and enjoy better lives for its staff members.
  同时组织丰富多彩的活动，使员工开阔视野、陶冶情操，充分享受生活的美好。
• 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。