| 释义 |
visualize, v.|ˈvɪʒjuːəlaɪz, ˈvɪz-|
Also visualise.
[f. visual a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To form a mental vision, image, or picture of (something not visible or present to the sight, or of an abstraction); to make visible to the mind or imagination.
Freq. in recent use, sometimes in connexion with special branches of psychology or psychical research.
1817,1831[implied in visualized ppl. adj.] 1863Tyndall Heat x. 350 We can hardly help attempting to visualise the atoms themselves. 1899J. Smith Chr. Charac. 165 Bunyan, in his immortal allegory, visualised the progress from justification to glory.
2. absol. or intr. To form a mental picture of something not visible or present, or of an abstract thing, etc.; to construct a visual image or images in the mind.
1871J. A. Symonds in H. F. Brown Biog. (1895) II. 52 For numbers I have..no head. I do not visualise except in the most rudimentary way. 1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 485 This answers to the way in which I visualize for them. 1897A. Lang Dreams & Ghosts ii. 58 A novelist of my acquaintance can ‘visualise’ so well that [etc.].
3. trans. To render visible.
1912Moving Picture World 17 Aug. 646/2 The printed volumes of ancient history have been carefully preserved and why not the film, which is more accurate and which, supplementing the printed story, would visualize the actual occurrences so that all may readily understand? 1925D. H. Lawrence in Calendar Mod. Lett. Dec. 269 And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than Van Gogh can. 1938Q. Jrnl. Med. XXXI. 462 Inflating the stomach with gas by means of an effervescing drink, a procedure we have found of great help in visualizing the apex [of the heart in radiography]. 1958Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry LXXIX. 59/1 The dorsal root axons..may then be stained and visualized. 1971Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 5 (Advt.), Research has led to the building of an ultra-sensitive Schlieren apparatus, in which pulsed ultrasound may be visualised both in water and in solids.
So ˈvisualized ppl. a., made visual or visible to the mind; formed in the mind; ˈvisualizing vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.
Carlyle's use of visualized was objected to by Sterling (see Carlyle Life Sterling ii. ii).
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. ii. 48 note, The images are at least consistent, and it was the intention of the writers to mark the seasons by this allegory of *visualized puns. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. viii, A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance:—some embodied, visualised Idea in the Eternal Mind? 1883F. Galton Hum. Faculty (1910) 112 A third..abiding fantasy of certain persons is invariably to connect visualised pictures with words.
1880E. White Cert. Relig. 43 A pictorial *visualizing imagination, which can faithfully depict the scenes recorded. 1881Sat. Rev. 30 July 142/1 Mr. Francis Galton's interesting illustrations of the power of visualizing. a1901F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. p. xli, It involves at least a great increase in his ordinary visualising power. |