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

• So moral education for teenagers is bound to protect and respect their rights in order to edify and inspire them by means of exchange and communication from mind to mind.
  对未成年人的道德教育是对受教育者心、智、情的启迪、开悟和感化，是心与心的交流和沟通过程，是对未成年人应有权力的尊重和保护。
• I can just manage to string a few words of French together. It is our sincere wish that through these messages, we encourage one another and edify one another.
  我只能勉强把法语的几个词拼凑在一起.深盼藉著话语的交通，和众肢体彼此勉励、此成全。
• 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。
• 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。
• In his book the function of television was to edify, not to entertain.
  按照他的看法，电视的职能在于教育，而不在于娱乐。
• If you study my project, it might edify your mind.
  “我想是你把我看成自我主义者了。”汤姆说，“如果你研究一下我的工程，你的思想会受到启发。
• Teaching ancient poetry is an important channel to impart knowledge, cultivate ideology education and edify the emotion.
  古诗词教学是对学生进行知识传授、思想教育和情感陶冶的重要途径。
• The education of art can waken the students 'imagination and ideation as well as purify their souls and edify their sentiment. It is quite important for the cultivation of creative personnel in the new century.
  艺术教育既可以起到净化心灵，陶冶情操，鼓舞斗志，弘扬正气的作用，又能激发人的想象力和形象思维能力，进而促进逻辑思维，对培养新世纪创新人才具有重要意义。
• From leisure, not only can people recover and edify, but they also make up for in intelligence and inspired inventions.
  在休闲中，人们不仅可以恢复体力、陶冶情操，而且可以弥补智力以及获得灵感进行发明创造。
• In developing and forming the students moral character, concealed moral education can well represent in the functions of recognition guidance, feeling edify and behavior criterion.
  隐性德育对学生思想品德的形成和发展的作用突出表现在认识导向功能、情感陶冶功能、行为规范功能等方面。