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illuminate

/verb ih-loo-muh-neyt; adjective, noun ih-loo-muh-nit, -neyt/US // verb ɪˈlu məˌneɪt; adjective, noun ɪˈlu mə nɪt, -ˌneɪt //

发光,发明,照亮,发亮

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v.有主动词 verb
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    il·lu·mi·nat·ed, il·lu·mi·nat·ing.

    • : to supply or brighten with light; light up.
    • : to make lucid or clear; throw light on.
    • : to decorate with lights, as in celebration.
    • : to enlighten, as with knowledge.
    • : to make resplendent or illustrious: A smile illuminated her face.
    • : to decorate with colors and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages.
v.无主动词 verb
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    il·lu·mi·nat·ed, il·lu·mi·nat·ing.

    • : to display lights, as in celebration.
    • : to become illuminated.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : Archaic. illuminated.
    • : Obsolete. enlightened.
n.名词 noun
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    • : Archaic. a person who is or affects to be specially enlightened.

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Examples

  • The beast stood immobile, glaring at us with yellow eyes in the winter dark and illuminated unevenly by Sergey’s light as our pace quickened.

  • What’s really interesting, though, are the fuzzy jets and streamers surrounding the comet, which are especially prominent when illuminated like this from behind.

  • Even if nothing is actually decided at the conventions, they still shine a spotlight on the parties, illuminating emerging factions and up-and-coming politicians, setting the stage for — and creating — the future of each party.

  • Visitors will enter through an illuminated maze, then be invited to contribute words from kiosks, after which an AI-powered algorithm will collect and parse them into poetry, and perhaps shoot them into outer space.

  • In the ocean’s depths, it might take more than a little light to illuminate some of the planet’s darkest fish.

  • When we can barely illuminate our own world, it would be superstitious to imagine that dead men could do it for us.

  • These numbers portend to illuminate society-threatening failures within the current immigration enforcement system.

  • Reading them will illuminate your own life and make it better.

  • Dispensing with some of the objections helps to illuminate this case.

  • But he says it well and often adds fresh details that help illuminate events in countries like Afghanistan.

  • Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.

  • Great artists appear in clusters, and amid the other constellations that illuminate the intellectual heavens.

  • By that time the grin in his face was almost bright enough of itself to illuminate any ordinary page.

  • History wants no illusions; it should illuminate and instruct, not merely give descriptions and narratives which impress us.

  • There was sufficient light from the lamps of the two cars to illuminate the scene.