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mythologize

/mi-thol-uh-jahyz/US // mɪˈθɒl əˌdʒaɪz //UK // (mɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz) //

神话化,神化,神秘化,神圣化

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

    • : to classify, explain, or write about myths.
    • : to construct or narrate myths.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

    • : to make into or explain as a myth; make mythical.

Examples

  • Yet, for as pathbreaking as “Hamilton” was, it presents a fairly stodgy take on the Founders, one that mythologizes them and especially glosses over their relationship to slavery.

  • He began to mythologize about it on account of the grand elements of welfare, risk, and skill which were in it.

  • Perhaps; but, as in the days of Plato, we must needs mythologize when we come to deal with the other life.

  • No progress of science can wholly eradicate this tendency to mythologize.

  • They always reveal the invincible tendency of the masses to mythologize.

  • If, since we are discussing a metaphysical issue,431 we must mythologize, we might call it the "will to self-expression."