| 释义 |
glamorize, glamourize, v. orig. U.S.|ˈglæməraɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. glamour n. + -ize.]
trans. To make glamorous or attractive. Hence glamo(u)riˈzation; ˈglamo(u)rized ppl. a.
1936Silver Screen Dec. 5 They [sc. film stars] are so glamorized and vaporized and made to appear in print as somebody they aren't at all. 1938News of World 12 June 7/2 Is this the way to glamorise ‘a godsend’..? Shouldn't your advisers be aware that..his employers are..mightily concerned in finding him tough, he-man roles? 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 98 Although the advertising writer does a creditable job of glamourizing colors and fabrics, he reserves his best efforts for the finished products. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair i. ii. 13 The glamorized advertisements, the pulsing sexy music. 1952Scrutiny XIX. i. 39 A startling and quite unacceptable palliation, indeed glamorization, of acts which are by the book's own canons grievous sins. 1953X. Fielding Stronghold 28 An outlaw whom the passage of time has glamourized into a figure..improbably noble. 1966Listener 1 Sept. 300/2 What about the glamorization of crime as it is alleged to take place on certain mass media, particularly television? 1967W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 24 The State will adopt towards him and to all similar institutions the policy of glamourised fossilism. |