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

• So moral education for teenagers is bound to protect and respect their rights in order to edify and inspire them by means of exchange and communication from mind to mind.
  对未成年人的道德教育是对受教育者心、智、情的启迪、开悟和感化，是心与心的交流和沟通过程，是对未成年人应有权力的尊重和保护。
• I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
  我认为我的朋友鲁克夫人目前的工作既不会使我感兴趣，也不会给我带来影响。
• 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；
• 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。
• Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
  所以我们务要追求和睦的事，与彼此建立德行的事。
• 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。
• 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。
• T.v.should attempt to edify the masses.
  电视应该试着去启迪大众。
• 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。
• Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.
  我们的使命是摧毁，而不是教诲。