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

• Trollope's hero and anti-hero personify the excess of virtue and the excess of vice which in his philosophy threatens the British golden mean.
  特罗洛普的小说的主角与非正统派主角把过分的善与过分的恶都人格化了，这按照他的哲学威胁着英国的中庸之道。
• Artists personify beauty in their works.
  艺术家在作品中表现美。
• 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。
• The only way then, would be to find one song that I feel would fully personify Michael, his hope, his dreams and his unconditional love for all the children in this world.
  唯一的办法，就是选一首在我心目中，最能够代表迈克杰可逊的歌曲，让大家一起聆听这位音乐天才对全世界的梦想，博爱，和希望。
• At Gucci, she worked on a team that included Christopher Bailey and Francisco Costa, both of whom have gone on to personify the broader role that designers are taking as brand managers.
  在古驰的时候，她所在的小组还包括克里斯托弗·贝利（ChristopherBailey）和弗朗西斯科·考斯特（FranciscoCosta），这两位设计师后来也承担起了品牌经理的部分职责。
• A younger woman was chosen to personify fertility.
  选择一个年轻的女孩代表生育。
• Kept for milk and dung, cows personify Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and are treated to fruit and grain on her day of honor.
  母牛可以产奶及蓄粪肥，象征财富女神拉克希米，在她的受敬日里被供奉水果及谷物。
• 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。
• Unlikely because Toyota CEOs are traditionally gray-suited men who affect the public personalities of Actuaries and personify the faceless anonymity of consensus management.
  之所以出人意料是因为，丰田公司的首席执行官的形象多年来都一成不变，他们身着灰色西服，在公众面前永远摆出一副精算师的面孔，完全就是丰田集体统一管理模式的化身。
• 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。