Embody



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. ( 作品等) 表达, 体现
• ［英］ v. ( 作品等) 表达, 体现 ( to make concrete and perceptible; incorporate)
• ［记］ em+body ( 身体) -> ( 思想) 变成身体 -> 体现

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb (embodied; embodying)

• Date: circa 1548
• 1. to give a body to (a spirit) ; incarnate
• 2.
  • a. to deprive of spirituality
  • b. to make concrete and perceptible
• 3. to cause to become a body or part of a body ; incorporate
• 4. to represent in human or animal form ; personify <men who greatly embodied the idealism of American life — A. M. Schlesinger b1917>
• ? embodier noun

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