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

• 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。
• Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
  所以我们务要追求和睦的事，与彼此建立德行的事。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• So moral education for teenagers is bound to protect and respect their rights in order to edify and inspire them by means of exchange and communication from mind to mind.
  对未成年人的道德教育是对受教育者心、智、情的启迪、开悟和感化，是心与心的交流和沟通过程，是对未成年人应有权力的尊重和保护。
• 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。
• System and method are the products of history, the influence of the historical heritage, agricultural society of Confucianism, edify inheritance, judicial policy effect, the transformation of the society needs the mediation of the existence of a withdrawal history and society reasons.
  制度和法都是历史的产物，历史传承的影响、农业社会的熏染、儒家思想的继承、司法政策的影响、转型社会的需求构成了调解撤诉存在的历史和社会原因。
• As the important part of the ideological and political education in higher vocational colleges, music education mainly implicit, penetration, infectious etc, to edify sentiment, enlightenment, shaping personality, to achieve the wisdom of the human mind and with communication.
  音乐教育作为高职院校思想政治教育的一个重要的组成部分，具有渗透性、内隐性、感染性等特点，可以启迪智慧、陶冶情操、塑造人格，达到人的心灵上的沟通与融汇。
• 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！