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epitomize

/ih-pit-uh-mahyz/US // ɪˈpɪt əˌmaɪz //UK // (ɪˈpɪtəˌmaɪz) //

标榜,标志着,象征着,标示

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    e·pit·o·mized, e·pit·o·miz·ing.

    • : to contain or represent in small compass; serve as a typical example of; typify: This meadow epitomizes the beauty of the whole area.
    • : to make an epitome of: to epitomize an argument.

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Examples

  • Selflessness sets Ted apart most from so many other TV protagonists framed as epitomizing masculinity.

  • The lookalike ads epitomized the successful sales strategy of a booming sector—guilt-tripping parents to get them to spend their hard-earned money on a shot at giving their kids the brightest possible future.

  • Burd’s character epitomizes the exact way not to approach K-pop.

  • Today he epitomizes the new generation of asynchronous workers who during the pandemic have taken flexible working to the next level.

  • DarkSide, which emerged last August, epitomized this new breed.

  • The transportation service—and others like it—epitomize what the sharing economy is all about.

  • Smart and ambitious, he seemed to epitomize the success of that northern migration experienced by millions of southern blacks.

  • The brand soon came to epitomize both the best and worst parts of the culture.

  • We have created a romanticized image that mothers are supposed to be sexless and epitomize the perfect homemaker.

  • Boiled down, shoveling snow and helping the stranded epitomize governing.

  • We city dwellers think of robins as harbingers of spring, and all that, and they epitomize the bird world.

  • And what a little thing thus to epitomize the whole hopeless standstill of their circumstances!

  • Proverbs, indeed, exemplify and epitomize the essentially literary type of thinking and speaking.

  • Children the world over epitomize in their habits and thoughts the infancy of the human race.

  • Before adverting to the most serious fact it is as well to epitomize the political action which has created it.