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

• The sun and the moon is often personify in poetry.
  诗歌中常把日、月拟人化。
• 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。
• I'm assuming that you have something that you personify that you love that thing, in some that you haven't personified that you love.
  我假设有些东西，你拟人化了并且你爱它，一些东西你爱的但是没有拟人化。
• People usually personify a ship by referring to it as "She". He travels with a wealthy crowd.
  人们往往用她来称呼船使之拟人化。他跟有钱人有来往。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are two people in my own world, one is myself, the other is my shadow, I personify my shadow as a member of my family, my friend, my partner, or anyone or an object that I like.
  在我的世界里只有两个人，一个是我自己，另一个是我的影子，我会把我的影子看做亲人、朋友、对象等等以及我喜欢的任何人或事物。
• We often personify the sun and the moon, calling the sun he and the moon she.
  我们经常用他来称呼太阳，用她来称呼月亮，使他们人格化。
• People usually personify a ship by referring to it as she.
  人们往往用“她”来称呼船使之拟人化。
• O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.
  亲爱的生病的人，对我来说你们是双倍的可亲，因为你们是基督的化身，而能照顾你们是我多大的特权。