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personified

/per-son-uh-fahy/US // pərˈsɒn əˌfaɪ //UK // (pɜːˈsɒnɪˌfaɪ) //

体现在,化身,形象化,化身为人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    per·son·i·fied, per·son·i·fy·ing.

    • : to attribute human nature or character to, as in speech or writing.
    • : to represent in the form of a person, as in art.
    • : to embody in a real person or a concrete thing.
    • : to be an embodiment or incarnation of; typify: He personifies the ruthless ambition of some executives.
    • : to personate.

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Examples

  • Jemisin’s urban fantasy — the first of a trilogy — transports readers to a New York City that has come alive, personified in a human avatar.

  • The show may go on, but it’s hard to imagine anyone personifying its ideals as well as Alex Trebek did.

  • She is against the patriarchy, especially when personified in villainous ogres like the Duke of Deception.

  • Fast food and personified death: not exactly Hallmark material.

  • New York cannot be personified; it is not an autonomous entity.

  • Pennsylvania is purple personified, and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is collapsing in the Keystone State.

  • Which brings us to the elephant in the room—the rapacious advance of online bookselling, personified by Amazon.

  • On this occasion, personified by her railway companies, she neglected neither, and in the latter surpassed herself.

  • The poet is really thinking of his mistress rather than his personified Pity.

  • It is easy to understand why the Scotchman, still more than the Englishman, is common sense personified.

  • The new moral age would have no traffic with those artists in whom the last smile of the eighteenth century was personified.

  • In his dream, he had personified the robot-confessor into the figure of a human judge.