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objectifying

/uhb-jek-tuh-fahy/US // əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ //UK // (əbˈdʒɛktɪˌfaɪ) //

物化,客观化,对象化,客体化

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ob·jec·ti·fied, ob·jec·ti·fy·ing.

    • : to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
    • : to treat as an object or thing: Women are objectified and their physical attributes highlighted in ways that do not apply to men.

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Examples

  • He wanted to reverse that typical cliché about how we look at and objectify women’s bodies.

  • I have a strong experience of difference, of being vilified or removed or objectified through harassment or teasing.

  • Even in the supportive celebration of her bravery, Spears and her career were being objectified again.

  • In the 1990s, some in academia advocated for replacing the word slave, arguing it objectifies and dehumanizes those who were enslaved.

  • This urge to objectify and thereby transcend nature is the source, he implies, of all our travails.

  • As a journalist writing a quick post for The Daily Beast, my job was to objectify him—and I did.

  • But he failed to make the connection that chauvinists invariably objectify women and view them as unequal.

  • Nichole, Former Porn Star: There are people like me who objectify themselves to men.

  • Thus, they objectify both the pain of the sickness and the fear aroused in the community by the behaviour of the sick person.

  • Nor has he ever had the power to express and objectify himself completely, and achieve vital form.

  • We are inevitably inclined to objectify the limitations of our own power instead of recognizing them for what they are.

  • You objectify an impression without arguing as to its reality at all, or relating it to yourself or anything else.

  • The effort to objectify the ideal, and to put it in concrete form in words or upon canvas, is said to be precious though painful.