| 单词 | embody |
| 释义 | embody (once / 398 pages) v To embody a role is to fill it completely. If a high schooler seems to embody the character of Macbeth, his performance might make the audience forget they're watching a dorky 15-year-old with braces. If you embody someone, you put him or her "in-body," as when an actor gives a complete and compelling representation of a character. You can also use embody to describe character traits you see in a person, like, “He embodies truth,” or, “She is the embodiment of goodness.” WORD FAMILYembody: disembody, embodied, embodies, embodiment, embodying+/disembody: disembodied, disembodying/embodied: unembodied/embodiment: embodiments USAGE EXAMPLESPrescott appears born to do this, and his football team now embodies his impressive calm. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Beamer says the former player’s work with The Carpenter House and other charitable organizations to help those in need “truly embodied the Virginia Tech spirit.” Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) She believes the process of embodying characters profoundly affects the people playing them. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v represent in bodily form He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system Syn|Hyper body forth, incarnate, substantiate be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v represent, as of a character on stage Syn|Hypo|Hyper be, personify body, personify invest with or as with a body; give body to exemplify, representbe characteristic of represent, stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol 3v represent or express something abstract in tangible form This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period Hyper represent serve as a means of expressing something |
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