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

• 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。
• This column introduces new technology and offers new information and mold and dies technology marrow, which can edify readers in mind. Assessment on Effectiveness of Free Drug Supplied to Poverty Schizophrenics in Beijing Mentougou District
  介绍新技术，提供新信息，模具技术精粹，给读者以思维的启迪。北京市门头沟区向贫困精神分裂症患者免费供药效果评价
• 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。
• The works of reading can best embody humanistic feature, can promote the personality, edify sentiment, also can examine a personal experience and comprehension, the degree and level of appreciation.
  其作品的阅读最能体现人文性的特征，最能提升人格、陶冶情操，也最能考察一个人体验、感悟、鉴赏的程度和水平。
• 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。
• T.v.should attempt to edify the masses.
  电视应该试着去启迪大众。
• Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.
  我们的使命是摧毁，而不是教诲。
• 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。
• 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；
• Meanwhile it also holds rich and colorful activities to widen the view and edify the sentiment and enjoy better lives for its staff members.
  同时组织丰富多彩的活动，使员工开阔视野、陶冶情操，充分享受生活的美好。