Edify
['edɪfaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To build; to construct.
(v. i.) To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.
(v. i.) To teach or persuade.
(v. i.) To improve.
康拉德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Instruct (in order to improve the character), teach, enlighten, educate, improve.
柯蒂斯校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Enlighten, instruct, improve
ANT:Misguide, mislead, misinform
編輯:谢恩
解釋/意思:
v.t. to build: to build up the faith of: to strengthen spiritually towards faith and holiness: to comfort: to improve the mind:—pr.p. ed′ifying; pa.p. ed′ified.—n. Edificā′tion instruction: progress in knowledge or in goodness.—adj. Ed′ificatory tending to edification.—n. Ed′ifice a large building or house.—adj. Edific′ial structural.—n. Ed′ifier one who edifies.—adj. Ed′ifying instructive: improving.—adv. Ed′ifyingly.
錄入:温思罗普
例句/造句/用法:
- You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Mother, you have found your match, pronounced little Jessie, whom the scene appeared greatly to edify. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was very edifying, baby. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Second, that he had forgiven everybody else, and had made a most edifying end. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mrs. Bute certainly thought herself one of the most virtuous women in England, and the sight of her happy family was an edifying one to strangers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There are a perfect host of Clarksons and Wilberforces* risen up among us on that subject, most edifying to hear and behold. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- On this question there arose the edifying brow-beating, customary on such points. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in some respects edifying. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is quite edifying to hear women speculate upon the worthlessness and the duration of beauty. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In consequence of Mrs. Snagsby looking deeply edified, Mr. Snagsby thinks it expedient on the whole to say amen, which is well received. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And this was more terrific to her husband (as perhaps she knew) than any flow of eloquence with which she could have edified the company. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Nor were the two last-named gentlemen as much edified as they might have been by the moving passages narrated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She was edified at the complete though abrupt diversion of his homage from herself to the heiress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
艾迪整理