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

• I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
  我认为我的朋友鲁克夫人目前的工作既不会使我感兴趣，也不会给我带来影响。
• Today, in a multicultural, dolls still practice the other its mission as human beings, in the expansion of new functionality to become contemporary comfort and edify people and with people who grow up together.
  在多元文化的今天，人偶仍旧实践着作为人类另一个自己的使命，在新的功能性的拓展下成为当代人的慰藉者和陶冶者并伴随人一同成长。
• 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。
• Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
  所以我们务要追求和睦的事，与彼此建立德行的事。
• 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。
• Meanwhile it also holds rich and colorful activities to widen the view and edify the sentiment and enjoy better lives for its staff members.
  同时组织丰富多彩的活动，使员工开阔视野、陶冶情操，充分享受生活的美好。
• 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。
• This column introduces new technology and offers new information and mold and dies technology marrow, which can edify readers in mind. Assessment on Effectiveness of Free Drug Supplied to Poverty Schizophrenics in Beijing Mentougou District
  介绍新技术，提供新信息，模具技术精粹，给读者以思维的启迪。北京市门头沟区向贫困精神分裂症患者免费供药效果评价
• It has awakened, contact and the integration of the personality of man power, it through the excavation and cultivate aesthetic ability, through constructing people aesthetic psychological structure of interior edify and achieves person personality mold.
  它具有唤醒、联系和整合人格的力量，它通过对人审美能力的发掘和培养，通过建构人的审美心理结构达到人的心灵陶冶和人格塑造。
• Our mission is to destroy, not to edify.
  我们的使命是摧毁，而不是教诲。