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

• The sun and the moon is often personify in poetry.
  诗歌中常把日、月拟人化。
• It is to personify the government behavior economically and to import the relative theories of market economy.
  把招商引资过程中的政府行为经济人格化，并引入市场经济主体运行相关理论加以分析。
• 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。
• After 37 years in politics, nearly ten as president, Mr Chirac has come to personify France.
  经历了37年的政治生涯，做了近十年的总统之后，希拉克已成为法国的象征。
• People usually personify a ship by referring to it as "She". He travels with a wealthy crowd.
  人们往往用她来称呼船使之拟人化。他跟有钱人有来往。
• 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。
• On other occasions she can be charm personified.
  在其他场合，她是魅力的化身。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。