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　

TEM8

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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The sun and the moon is often personify in poetry.
  诗歌中常把日、月拟人化。
• On other occasions she can be charm personified.
  在其他场合，她是魅力的化身。
• He presided over a viciously effective police state and came to personify a whole era of bloody despotism during the latter stages of the cold war.
  他成功的控制了一个集权国家，并且在冷战后期成为整个时代的血腥专制的代名词。
• The problem of semantic Web characterization was introduced on the basis of XML/ RDF, and some concepts of it were adopted to personify the home service system.
  介绍了基于XML/RDF语义Web描述的问题，并将其用于个性化家庭服务系统。
• Unlikely because Toyota CEOs are traditionally gray-suited men who affect the public personalities of Actuaries and personify the faceless anonymity of consensus management.
  之所以出人意料是因为，丰田公司的首席执行官的形象多年来都一成不变，他们身着灰色西服，在公众面前永远摆出一副精算师的面孔，完全就是丰田集体统一管理模式的化身。
• Trollope's hero and anti-hero personify the excess of virtue and the excess of vice which in his philosophy threatens the British golden mean.
  特罗洛普的小说的主角与非正统派主角把过分的善与过分的恶都人格化了，这按照他的哲学威胁着英国的中庸之道。