enlightening

英 [ɪnˈlaɪtnɪŋ]

美 [ɪnˈlaɪtnɪŋ]

v.  启发; 开导; 阐明
enlighten的现在分词

现在分词：enlightening　

GRE

BNC.33488 / COCA.27028

柯林斯词典

• VERB 启发;开导;教化
  Toenlightensomeone means to give them more knowledge and greater understanding about something.
  1. A few dedicated doctors have fought for years to enlighten the profession...
     一些有献身精神的医生多年来一直努力指导业内同仁。
  2. If you know what is wrong with her, please enlighten me.
     如果你知道她出什么问题了，请告诉我。

英英释义

adj

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
  1. the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read
  Synonym:edifying
• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
  1. an enlightening glimpse of government in action
  2. an illuminating lecture
  Synonym:informativeilluminating

双语例句

• Zen Buddhism, with its discipline of meditation and its perplexing koan riddles, seems powerfully enlightening.
  佛教禅宗的打坐戒律和其令人费解的禅理似乎很有启发性。
• The author thinks that every communication model has its own advantages and can be instructively enlightening for English teaching.
  作者认为，每一种传播模式都有值得借鉴的地方，并能够为我们的大学英语教学提供有益的启示。
• Thank you for enlightening me on this interesting subject!
  谢谢你给我带来这有趣的话题。
• It is a collection of fable works, most of which give an account of some enlightening stories.
  它是一本寓言故事全集，多数讲述了一些令人感悟的故事。
• He often said that starting the Enlightening Education Program was his biggest accomplishment.
  他常说做燃灯计划是他一生中最有成就感，最满足的事了。
• This process also has enlightening significance for us to understand the thought evolution of modern Chinese writers.
  这一过程，对我们理解现代作家的思想发展也具有启发意义。
• But, I now think, it is more enlightening to view the fundamental drivers as energy and ideas.
  不过，我现在觉得，把能源和创意视为基本驱动力反而更具启发性。
• This character, together with the secular modernity, enlightening modernity, reflectional modernity and aesthetic modernity, constitute the multiple aspects of modernity.
  这一特性与世俗现代性、启蒙现代性、反思现代性、审美现代性等，共同构成现代性的多重因素。
• From the perspective of historical embedment, it tries to conduct enlightening study on the religious authority.
  本文尝试以“历史镶嵌”作为新的分析视角，对宗教权威进行研究。
• Especially the booming landscape ecology has given new vigor for wetland research and played enlightening and guiding function on the comprehensive research of wetland on regional scale.
  尤其是景观生态学的兴起为湿地研究注入了新的活力，为在区域尺度上开展湿地的综合研究起到了启发和指导作用。