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

• 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。
• In Putonghua teaching, the effective ways to avoid the errors are strengthening the training of language sense and exerting an edify influence upon students'humanity.
  在普通话教学中加强语感训练，对学生进行人文熏陶是避免声调误读现象的有效途径。
• 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。
• Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.
  我们的使命是摧毁，而不是教诲。
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  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
• 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。
• System and method are the products of history, the influence of the historical heritage, agricultural society of Confucianism, edify inheritance, judicial policy effect, the transformation of the society needs the mediation of the existence of a withdrawal history and society reasons.
  制度和法都是历史的产物，历史传承的影响、农业社会的熏染、儒家思想的继承、司法政策的影响、转型社会的需求构成了调解撤诉存在的历史和社会原因。
• 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。
• The tasks of prose teaching are to acquire knowledge, foster abilities, edify sentiment and irradiate the mind.
  散文教学的任务是获取知识，培养能力，陶冶情操，启迪心智。
• 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。