personify 英 [pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ]   美 [pərˈsɑnɪfaɪ]

personify

personify  英 [pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ] 美 [pərˈsɑnɪfaɪ]

vt. 使人格化;赋与…以人性 

进行时:personifying  过去式:personified  过去分词:personified  第三人称单数:personifies 

If Rodin created a sculpture to personify a woman, it would probably be called 'The Talker'. 假如罗丹创作一个代表女性的雕像作品,很可能会被称为“讲话者”。
But the fact that so many activists and analysts in the Arab world and beyond so personify the problem, and speak so glibly of their goals, also suggests a failure to grasp the depth of the challenge. 但事实上,即使许多阿拉伯世界的激进分子和学者已超越个性来看待问题的本源,夸夸其谈他们的目的,也意味着他们并没有领会挑战的深层含义。

  • To personify is to give something lifeless human-like qualities — like when Emily Dickinson wrote, "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me..."
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  • vt. 使人格化;赋与…以人性
  • 1. If Rodin created a sculpture to personify a woman, it would probably be called 'The Talker'.

    假如罗丹创作一个代表女性的雕像作品,很可能会被称为“讲话者”。

  • 2. But the fact that so many activists and analysts in the Arab world and beyond so personify the problem, and speak so glibly of their goals, also suggests a failure to grasp the depth of the challenge.

    但事实上,即使许多阿拉伯世界的激进分子和学者已超越个性来看待问题的本源,夸夸其谈他们的目的,也意味着他们并没有领会挑战的深层含义。

  • 3. "You tend to personify things that you think about a lot, " she says.

    “反复思考一样东西,你会渐渐把它拟人化,”她说。

  • personify (v.) 1727 "to attribute personal form to things or abstractions" (especially as an artistic or literary technique), from person + -fy or from French personnifier (17c.), from personne. Meaning "to represent, embody" attested from 1806. Related: Personified; personifying.
per·son·ify / pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ ; NAmE pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪ / verb ( per·soni·fies , per·soni·fy·ing , per·soni·fied , per·soni·fied ) 1 personifysth to be an example of a quality or characteristic, or to have a lot of it 是…的典型;集中表现 SYN typify These children personify all that is wrong with the education system. 这些儿童充分体现了教育制度的缺陷。 He is kindness personified. 他是仁慈的化身。 2 [usually passive ] personifysth (as sb) to show or think of an object, quality, etc. as a person 拟人化;把…人格化 The river was personified as a goddess. 这条河被人格化,成为一位女神。 personify personifies personified personifying per·son·ify / pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ ; NAmE pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪ /
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