personification
personification 英 [pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn] 美 [pərˌsɑnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
n. 人格化；化身；拟人法（一种修辞手法）；象征
名词复数:personifications
- Personification means "giving humans qualities to an abstract idea," as in a movie villain who is the personification of evil.
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- n. 人格化；化身；拟人法（一种修辞手法）；象征
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1. Here she examines Bacon’s personification of the figure of Nature, specifically with regard to gender roles.
在这里，她研究了培根对自然形象的人格化的，特别是关于性别角色。
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2. Big Brother, a seemingly benevolent but terribly vengeful ruler who may or may not exist, is the personification of the state.
老大哥是一位看似仁慈却报复心极强的统治者，也许是国家有形或者无形的化身。
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3. Cronkite was often viewed as the personification of objectivity, but his reports on the Vietnam War increasingly came to criticize the American military role.
克朗凯特经常被看作是客观的化身，但是他关于越战的报道越来越多地开始批评美国军事行动。
- personification (n.) 1755, noun of action from personify. Sense of "embodiment of a quality in a person" is attested from 1807.
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