Materialize



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 赋予形体; 实现
• ［英］ v. 赋予形体 ( represent in material form) ; 实现 ( to become fact)
• ［记］ material ( 材料, 物质) +ize -> 物质化 -> 使具体化
• ［例］ materialize an idea in words ( 用语言体现思想)

Webster Collegiate

verb (-ized; -izing)

• Date: 1710
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to make material ; objectify
    • b. to cause to appear in bodily form <materialize the spirits of the dead>
  • 2. to cause to be materialistic
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to assume bodily form
  • 2.
    • a. to appear especially suddenly
    • b. to come into existence
• ? materializer noun

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