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

• They tried to edify the child with music.
  他们试图用音乐陶冶这孩子。
• 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。
• To actualize aesthetic education in geography teaching could make students gain broader knowledge, develop their intelligence and enhance their ability. Meanwhile, it can edify their sentiments and improve their accomplishments. This is the essential approach to upgrade students 'comprehensive qualities in full scale.
  在中学地理教学中实施审美教育，可以使学生在审美状态中获得知识、开发智力、提高能力，同时陶冶审美情感，提高审美素养，是全面提升学生综合素质的必要途径。
• 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。
• 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。
• T.v.should attempt to edify the masses.
  电视应该试着去启迪大众。
• It has awakened, contact and the integration of the personality of man power, it through the excavation and cultivate aesthetic ability, through constructing people aesthetic psychological structure of interior edify and achieves person personality mold.
  它具有唤醒、联系和整合人格的力量，它通过对人审美能力的发掘和培养，通过建构人的审美心理结构达到人的心灵陶冶和人格塑造。
• Edify yourself, build up your spiritual relaity on the holiest word of god.
  在上帝至圣的真道上来建造自己。
• In his book the function of television was to edify, not to entertain.
  按照他的看法，电视的职能在于教育，而不在于娱乐。
• You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me such.
  你知道，我是个不可救药的人，宗教对这种问题的看法对我没多大教益。