| 单词 | anthropomorphize |
| 释义 | anthropomorphize (once / 121849 pages) v When you talk about a thing or animal as if it were human, you're anthropomorphizing it. The Easter Bunny is an anthropomorphized rabbit. People anthropomorphize all the time. If you've ever seen a dog in a sweater, that's a small case of an owner anthropomorphizing his pet. A cartoon dog who talks is a bigger case of anthropomorphizing. Shel Silverstein's book The Giving Tree anthropomorphizes the tree — the tree acts as if it were a person. It may seem kind of bizarre, but treating non-human things as human is a way of imagining another point of view. WORD FAMILYanthropomorphize: anthropomorphized, anthropomorphizes, anthropomorphizing+/anthropomorphic: anthropomorphically, anthropomorphise, anthropomorphize/anthropomorphise: anthropomorphised, anthropomorphises, anthropomorphising USAGE EXAMPLESTheir life cycle is sacred to the tribe and difficult not to anthropomorphize. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) “But wait,” we tell ourselves, always wanting to project, to anthropomorphize, to turn the story in our favor. The New Yorker(Dec 17, 2016) The directors reserve their empathy for creatures, particularly as their habitat shrinks, but they keep enough of a distance so that animals are never anthropomorphized. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) v ascribe human features to something Syn|Hyper anthropomorphise ascribe, assign, attribute, impute attribute or credit to |
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