popularize

英 [ˈpɒpjələraɪz]

美 [ˈpɑːpjələraɪz]

v.  宣传; 宣扬; 推广; 使通俗化; 使普及

过去式：popularized　过去分词：popularized　现在分词：popularizing　第三人称单数：popularizes　

IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.23345 / COCA.13414

牛津词典

verb

• 宣传；宣扬；推广
  to make a lot of people know about sth and enjoy it
  1. The programme did much to popularize little-known writers.
     这个节目大力宣扬不太知名的作家。
• 使通俗化；使普及
  to make a difficult subject easier to understand for ordinary people
  1. He spent his life popularizing natural history.
     他毕生致力于普及博物学。

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 popularise


• VERB 使受喜爱；使受欢迎
  Topopularizesomething means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it.
  1. Irving Brokaw popularized figure skating in the US.
     欧文·布罗考在美国引发了花样滑冰热潮。
• VERB 使通俗；普及；推广
  Topopularizean academic subject or scientific idea means to make it more easy to understand for ordinary people.
  1. It was Aristotle who proved the world is round. Plato popularized the concept.
     亚里士多德证明了地球是圆的，柏拉图普及了这一概念。

英英释义

verb

• make understandable to the general public
  1. Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
  Synonym:popularise
• cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public
  1. They popularized coffee in Washington State
  2. Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
  Synonym:popularisevulgarizevulgarisegeneralizegeneralise

双语例句

• Making content freely available would help to popularize journals, and would encourage them to develop an online presence.
  免费提供杂志内容将有助于杂志的推广，而且将鼓励杂志社发展成在线办公的状态。
• Popularize common materials for mature ditch anti-seepage projects such as concrete, bituminous concrete and plastic film.
  推广使用混凝土和沥青混凝土、塑料薄膜等成熟的渠道防渗工程常用材料；
• With respect to intramural a few products introduce how to use these products to popularize yourself's website below.
  下面就校内的一些产品来介绍如何利用这些产品来推广你自己的网站。
• We have main advantages to produce and popularize cartoon, animation products, and to develop and extend the peripheral industry of cartoon.
  具有动画、画产品的制作和推广、漫周边产业的开发和延伸的主营优势。
• It is the policy of the nation to encourage scientific research, technical development and international cooperation to develop cleaner production, and to organize the dissemination of information with respect to and to popularize cleaner production and extend the range of cleaner production technologies.
  国家鼓励开展有关清洁生产的科学研究、技术开发和国际合作，组织宣传、普及清洁生产知识，推广清洁生产技术。
• The difficulty of dressing superhard wheel is one of the main obstruction to popularize application in industry.
  超硬砂轮修整的困难，是生产上推广应用的主要障碍之一。
• To build eco-civilization, we must popularize ecological knowledge, set up ecological value, carry out a "revolution of conscience", and abandon materialism, economism and consumerism.
  为建设生态文明，必须普及生态学知识，树立生态价值观，实现“良心的革命”，摒弃物质主义、经济主义和消费主义价值观。
• We have discussed sum for subspace of vector space, and cannot popularize sum of subspace to infinitude.
  对向量空间的子空间的和的概念不能推广到无限多个子空间的情形进行了讨论。
• To develop such empathy, many universities in China have organized campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health.
  为了发挥这种移情作用，很多中国大学也组织了一系列校园活动来普及心理健康知识。
• That original study helped popularize such group therapy, but subsequent research produced mixed results.
  最初的研究有力的推广了这种群体疗法，但是后继的研究产生了复杂的结果。