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　

TOEFLGREIELTS

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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• My father has a little bit famous at local, although I didn't get any educate, maybe has some edify or heredity!
  我父亲是个当地小有名气的画家，我虽说没接触过训练，也许还是受这方面的熏陶或遗传吧！
• 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。
• 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。
• The hardware facilities, such as buildings, equipments, greening and beautifying which provides good external conditions can promote and edify the teachers'professional developments.
  学校建筑、装备举措措施、绿化美化等学校硬件举措措施为教师专业发铺提供良好的外部环境，具有激励和熏陶作用；