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

• 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。
• Therefore, Cydonia oblonga Mill has highly value to popularize in North China.
  因此，在我国北方，榅桲具有很高的推广价值。
• 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。
• Popularize high-accuracy field leveling techniques, encourage the use of laser field leveling.
  推广高精度平整土地技术，鼓励使用激光平整土地；
• He said there are many young designers and local fashion companies that want to popularize it again.
  他说有许多年轻的设计师和当地的时尚公司想使中山装重新流行起来。
• We should popularize our tourism abroad.
  我们要向国外发展旅游业。
• 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；
• The Problems and Countermeasures to Popularize Social Scientific Knowledge
  社会科学知识普及工作存在的问题及对策研究
• We popularize a conclusion, and give a solution to the same questions by applying the popularized conclusion.
  将一个断语进行推广，并借助它介绍一类问题的通用解法。
• Lancaster wrote many manuals in his efforts to popularize the methods.
  兰卡斯特精心撰写了许多手册，希望推广这种模式。