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

• The tasks of prose teaching are to acquire knowledge, foster abilities, edify sentiment and irradiate the mind.
  散文教学的任务是获取知识，培养能力，陶冶情操，启迪心智。
• 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。
• 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。
• T.v.should attempt to edify the masses.
  电视应该试着去启迪大众。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。