| 单词 | animate |
| 释义 | animate (once / 212 pages) vadj At its most basic, animate means simply alive, while inanimate means not living, not moving around. But animate also means spirited, or brought to life. Animated cartoons are what we think of as pictures come to life: animation. Animate derives from the Latin anima "life, soul, spirit." When you seem particularly filled with life, or high-spirited, if you laugh loudly, or use broad gestures, you're animated. WORD FAMILYanimate: animated, animateness, animates, animating, animatingly, animation, animator, inanimate, reanimate+/animated: animatedly, unanimated/animation: animations/animator: animators/inanimate: inanimately, inanimateness/reanimate: reanimated, reanimates, reanimating USAGE EXAMPLESDr. Appleby was part of a generation of historians who examined the ideologies and beliefs that animated the American Revolution. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) At this point the inclusion of this animated Netflix series on various Best of TV lists seems obligatory. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) “Within the confines of the material, you’ll find that you’re playing real people, as outsized as they may be,” he said, growing animated. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v make lively Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up blunt, deaden make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation ginger up, jazz up, juice up, pep up make more interesting or lively inspirit, spirit, spirit upinfuse with spirit arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate cause to be alert and energetic 2v give new life or energy to Syn|Hyper quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify come to, resuscitate, revive return to consciousness arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate cause to be alert and energetic 3v give lifelike qualities to animate d cartoons Syn|Hyper animise, animize alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 4v heighten or intensify Syn|Hypo|Hyper enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate encourage inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to barrack, cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge onspur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts foster, nurturehelp develop, help grow holloencourage somebody by crying hollo cheer, embolden, hearten, recreategive encouragement to draw outmake more sociable bring outencourage to be less reserved goad, spurgive heart or courage to excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of 5adj endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life we are animate beings Ant inanimate, non-living, nonliving not endowed with life nonconsciousrelating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things 6adj endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness Syn|Ant sentient sensate having physical sensation insensate, insentient devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation unfeelingdevoid of feeling or sensation 7adj belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings the word `dog' is animate Ant inanimate belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things |
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