personify

英 [pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ]

美 [pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪ]

v.  是…的典型; 集中表现; 拟人化; 把…人格化

过去分词：personified　过去式：personified　第三人称单数：personifies　现在分词：personifying　

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Collins.1 / BNC.18911 / COCA.14127

牛津词典

verb

• 是…的典型；集中表现
  to be an example of a quality or characteristic, or to have a lot of it
  1. 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。
  2. He is kindness personified.
     他是仁慈的化身。
• 拟人化；把…人格化
  to show or think of an object, quality, etc. as a person
  1. The river was personified as a goddess.
     这条河被人格化，成为一位女神。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 是…的典范；集中体现；象征
  If you say that someonepersonifiesa particular thing or quality, you mean that they seem to be a perfect example of that thing, or to have that quality to a very large degree.
  1. She seemed to personify goodness and nobility...
     她宛如善良和高贵的化身。
  2. ...the world of inter-war decency as personified by Stanley Baldwin...
     在斯坦利·鲍德温身上所体现的两次大战间体面正派的人生
  3. On other occasions she can be charm personified.
     在其他场合，她是魅力的化身。

英英释义

verb

• attribute human qualities to something
  1. The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous
  Synonym:personate
• represent, as of a character on stage
  1. Derek Jacobi was Hamlet
  Synonym:embodybe
• invest with or as with a body
  Synonym:body

双语例句

• There are two people in my own world, one is myself, the other is my shadow, I personify my shadow as a member of my family, my friend, my partner, or anyone or an object that I like.
  在我的世界里只有两个人，一个是我自己，另一个是我的影子，我会把我的影子看做亲人、朋友、对象等等以及我喜欢的任何人或事物。
• Artists personify beauty in their works.
  艺术家在作品中表现美。
• As to an abstract and inanimate entity, apostrophe can personify them and make the images of poetry vivid and charming.
  与动物或抽象概念对话时，能赋予诗人要诉说的对象以人的特征，使得诗歌意象生动活泼，增添艺术魅力。
• It is important to develop and make the most of positive factors in the unconsciousness, and restrain or transform the negative factors, in order to lay the accumulation of good cultural traditions of the nation, as well as to personify the spirit and vitality of time.
  应当不断开发和利用无意识心理中的积极因素，抑制和改造其消极因素，使少年学生的道德习惯既有民族优良文化传统的积淀，又富有新鲜的时代内容和生命力。
• The sun and the moon is often personify in poetry.
  诗歌中常把日、月拟人化。
• Kept for milk and dung, cows personify Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and are treated to fruit and grain on her day of honor.
  母牛可以产奶及蓄粪肥，象征财富女神拉克希米，在她的受敬日里被供奉水果及谷物。
• The Chinese landscape painting art develops to Yuan Dynasty again a big change, is scholarly of the landscape painting to turn, personify.
  中国山水画艺术发展到元代又一大变，是山水画的文人化、人格化。
• O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.
  亲爱的生病的人，对我来说你们是双倍的可亲，因为你们是基督的化身，而能照顾你们是我多大的特权。
• Just as you have chosen to personify pure love as the character you call God, so have you chosen to personify abject fear as the character you call the devil.
  正如你们选择了将纯粹的爱拟人化为你们称之为神的那个角色，你们也选择拟人化卑鄙的恐惧为你们所谓的撒旦。
• People usually personify a ship by referring to it as she.
  人们往往用“她”来称呼船使之拟人化。