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

• On other occasions she can be charm personified.
  在其他场合，她是魅力的化身。
• As to an abstract and inanimate entity, apostrophe can personify them and make the images of poetry vivid and charming.
  与动物或抽象概念对话时，能赋予诗人要诉说的对象以人的特征，使得诗歌意象生动活泼，增添艺术魅力。
• At Gucci, she worked on a team that included Christopher Bailey and Francisco Costa, both of whom have gone on to personify the broader role that designers are taking as brand managers.
  在古驰的时候，她所在的小组还包括克里斯托弗·贝利（ChristopherBailey）和弗朗西斯科·考斯特（FranciscoCosta），这两位设计师后来也承担起了品牌经理的部分职责。
• Unlikely because Toyota CEOs are traditionally gray-suited men who affect the public personalities of Actuaries and personify the faceless anonymity of consensus management.
  之所以出人意料是因为，丰田公司的首席执行官的形象多年来都一成不变，他们身着灰色西服，在公众面前永远摆出一副精算师的面孔，完全就是丰田集体统一管理模式的化身。
• A younger woman was chosen to personify fertility.
  选择一个年轻的女孩代表生育。
• Secretarial personnel visualize their beauty with personal characteristics and mettle, personify their beauty with noble ideals and fine sentiments, and act out their beauty with diligent and harmonious work.
  秘书人员以其外形特征和风度气质显示形象美；以其崇高理想和美好情操显示人格美；
• It is to personify the government behavior economically and to import the relative theories of market economy.
  把招商引资过程中的政府行为经济人格化，并引入市场经济主体运行相关理论加以分析。
• 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。
• It is important to develop and make the most of positive factors in the unconsciousness, and restrain or transform the negative factors, in order to lay the accumulation of good cultural traditions of the nation, as well as to personify the spirit and vitality of time.
  应当不断开发和利用无意识心理中的积极因素，抑制和改造其消极因素，使少年学生的道德习惯既有民族优良文化传统的积淀，又富有新鲜的时代内容和生命力。
• 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。