单词 | personification |
释义 | personificationWord family (noun) person personality persona personage the personals personification personnel (adjective) personal ≠ impersonal personalized personable (verb) personalize personify (adverb) personally ≠ impersonally From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpersonificationper‧son‧i‧fi‧ca‧tion /pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən $ pərˌsɑː-/ noun1 → the personification of something2 [countable, uncountable]SIGN/SYMBOL the representation of a thing or a quality as a person, in literature or artpersonification of the personification of rivers in fifth-century artExamples from the Corpuspersonification• The arch spandrels are decorated by figures of winged victory and personifications of rivers.• Political integrity assumes a particularly deep personification of the community or state.• Hera becomes an impartial, giving and destroying, personification of nature at its most hidden.• But I must be clearer what kind of personification this is.• the poem's personification of the moon• Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own private Baron Samedi.• Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification of restless spirits returning to earth to seek revenge.• He is, you will also have gathered, the very personification of an arts education commercial.• We find other and even more important examples of working personification in the logic of individual political rights against the state. |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含170365条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。