| 单词 | educate |
| 释义 | ed·u·cate transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < more things than a formal schooling serve to educate a man > < educate their children by tutors > < educated rather by wide experience than by books > < the poverty of the institutions which educate her mind and her body — Virginia Woolf > : provide with formal schooling < educated at a prep school and then at college > b. < educates physically handicapped children for useful work — American Guide Series: Michigan > < educate a dog to sit up and beg > < felt that he needed to educate himself more before he could understand the larger machines the factory operated > c. < can … educate himself as to the most desirable attributes of the good field-trial dog — W.F.Brown b. 1903 > d. < one of the most important arenas for the exercise of intelligence, in purging and educating our values — P.W.Bridgman > < psychoanalysis has educated our sensibilities — Abram Kardiner > 3. a. < the absence of an accustomed stimulant to which she had educated his nerves — Francis Hackett > b. (1) < spent some time trying to educate the club membership to place more responsibility and trust in the club officers > < educate stockholders and keep them eager to support the companies they own — Time > < educate people to call the police without hesitation — V.A.Leonard > < furniture manufacturers … put on a national drive to educate people to desire homes that are more attractive and livable — N.C.Brown > (2) < educating the leaders in the wisdom of a change — L.S.B.Leakey > < people of the world are more educated to international organization — André Schenker > < educate the Filipinos to the necessity of giving blood — Irene Kuhn > 4. < a greater moral perceptiveness and a will educated to a new social responsibility — Lucius Garvin > 5. a. < the fundamental preference for one's own race and breed neither is wholly educated into one nor can be wholly educated out of one — Katharine F. Gerould > < educate bad manners out of a child > b. < educating underprivileged children up to a better level of opportunity > intransitive verb < the belief that a teacher should confine himself to educating and avoid proselytizing > Synonyms: see teach |
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