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

• 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。
• 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。
• T.v.should attempt to edify the masses.
  电视应该试着去启迪大众。
• As the important part of the ideological and political education in higher vocational colleges, music education mainly implicit, penetration, infectious etc, to edify sentiment, enlightenment, shaping personality, to achieve the wisdom of the human mind and with communication.
  音乐教育作为高职院校思想政治教育的一个重要的组成部分，具有渗透性、内隐性、感染性等特点，可以启迪智慧、陶冶情操、塑造人格，达到人的心灵上的沟通与融汇。
• 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。
• Meanwhile it also holds rich and colorful activities to widen the view and edify the sentiment and enjoy better lives for its staff members.
  同时组织丰富多彩的活动，使员工开阔视野、陶冶情操，充分享受生活的美好。
• Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.
  我们的使命是摧毁，而不是教诲。
• To actualize aesthetic education in geography teaching could make students gain broader knowledge, develop their intelligence and enhance their ability. Meanwhile, it can edify their sentiments and improve their accomplishments. This is the essential approach to upgrade students 'comprehensive qualities in full scale.
  在中学地理教学中实施审美教育，可以使学生在审美状态中获得知识、开发智力、提高能力，同时陶冶审美情感，提高审美素养，是全面提升学生综合素质的必要途径。
• 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。
• 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。